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mstlaurent · 06-28-2018, 05:21 PM

My sons and I played two games last weekend.

We started with the race scenario. Now, I played Triplanetary in its original incarnation, but I haven't touched it in thirty years at this point. I beat my nine-year-old by one turn. My eleven-year-old lagged us by about three turns, but the movement system kicked his kiester at one point and he wound up losing a lot of time navigating between Mercury and Sol.

For our second game we tried the Nova scenario. For future reference, the Nova scenario becomes very unbalanced when the EastBloc and WestBloc players decide to bury the hatchet and gang up on the hapless Alien player. And if either of the Bloc players just puts a couple of Dreadnaughts into orbit around Sol, it makes it really difficult for the Aliens in any case.

But in any case we all had fun, and my boys are hooked.

06-28-2018, 05:21 PM	#2
mstlaurent Join Date: Aug 2004	Re: Triplanetary Play Experiences My sons and I played two games last weekend. We started with the race scenario. Now, I played Triplanetary in its original incarnation, but I haven't touched it in thirty years at this point. I beat my nine-year-old by one turn. My eleven-year-old lagged us by about three turns, but the movement system kicked his kiester at one point and he wound up losing a lot of time navigating between Mercury and Sol. For our second game we tried the Nova scenario. For future reference, the Nova scenario becomes very unbalanced when the EastBloc and WestBloc players decide to bury the hatchet and gang up on the hapless Alien player. And if either of the Bloc players just puts a couple of Dreadnaughts into orbit around Sol, it makes it really difficult for the Aliens in any case. But in any case we all had fun, and my boys are hooked.