by wisek
borsook wrote:
wisek wrote:
I like to play 2p Runewars more than 3p. One important (for me) home-rule - we play with 5 map tiles instead of 4.
I would actually advise against this, the Runewars expansion adds a problematic 12 tile and it is a good idea to draw one more if this one is selected, but if you always draw 5 and not 4 you may get a map where both players easily get maximum resources which kills most of strategy.
I will keep playing it this way :). An example from last weekend:
We've got a huge map (18 tiles for 2 players, which is rather a rare situation), but only one tile with 3 food and one with 2 - around 8 food in total. There was plenty of ore (around 11) and not as much wood (around 9). Even in a huge map like this there was one resource type to fight for. Plus - the map was tactically interesting, with two paths between our homelands.
My opponent could ally two giants with a tactic card and get the richest mountains. In a map where we would be 3 hexes away, second year with 4-6 hex units to fight against means sure loss for me - thanks to one tactic card.
Another situation from this game - desolation token placed in the first year. I won the bid (thanks to starting influence), the region with 3 food gets desolated. In a smaller map this could be the only food source around that player - another instant win.
Playing 2p with BoW without this home rule increases chances for a quick victory, if one player gets a good boost (mostly luck based) in the first year and the second player has nobody to ally against him. Been there, won't let this happen again:). A newbie to this game could be easily dissapointed with a second year defeat.