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#243: Real-Time Games

So Very Wrong About Games

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Starship Captains

I found Starship captains beginning to end all told very boring. I don't like it when many Euro games enter the stage where you're no longer thinking of set aside even thematically appropriate actions. The moment you start engaging in that math involving the end game value of resources, I find that stage to be the least interesting part of every game. Because there's so few rounds and because everything is worth points at the end of the game, you hit that real hard relatively quickly.

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