Power Struggle 30th Dec 2010
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I arrived late from my own birthday party to find Allen, Kareem and Aanemesis apparently finished playing Alien Frontiers…
… and was setting up Power Struggle with CK Au. I had read the rules to this game and Allen also had played it with Hiew but both of us still need time to refresh the rules…
In this game we play as a shadowy figure attempting to wrest power in a generic multinational company
We hire our ‘crony’ employees to take over various departments and abuse department privileges
Which can sometimes go awry as our own cronies get bribed
All this in order to gain power which are defined in game terms as influence, shares, indestructable main departments, corruption and external consultants
It’s fun to backstab, sidestab, frontstab each other…
Especially after receiving a bribe just to ‘retire’ the bribed employee out of reach of the bribe offerer!
Overall a nice game but the rules itself are not ‘transparent’ in the sense that there are minor details easily overlooked. After we played the game, we found at least three misplayed rules, not enough to break the game but it’s still there.
Next we did 7 Wonders and it’s a quick light filler… although it might not be quick since anyone who plays it wants to play it twice!
