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Post by timurilank on Jul 26, 2019 15:30:07 GMT
I am not sure if this has been posted before, but I found this an interesting video of the 4,500 year old Royal Game of Ur. The rules are simple but the game mechanism had me thinking about its application for campaign use. The banter between players is amusing as are the brief interviews during the game.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=WZskjLq040I
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Post by nangwaya on Jul 26, 2019 15:37:09 GMT
Dr. Finkel does play a mean game of Ur!
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Post by jim1973 on Jul 26, 2019 23:34:40 GMT
That video inspired me to make my own board. Small bathroom tiles on a piece of MDF, a bit of grout, some polished stones...taa daa! I'd put a picture up but not so easy any more... Jim
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Post by nangwaya on Jul 27, 2019 0:28:30 GMT
I hope you post whatever you come up with in adapting some of the Ur game mechanics into a campaign.
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Post by paddy649 on Jul 27, 2019 7:03:18 GMT
That looks like a really good game. Thought about a trip to the British Museum to buy a set but at £99 I think they have got the price point very wrong. I’ll probably do the same as Jim and make my own at a cost of pennies.
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Post by timurilank on Jul 31, 2019 6:57:38 GMT
I hope you post whatever you come up with in adapting some of the Ur game mechanics into a campaign. The campaign application I envisioned came from the description of the game board. The first squares fall within a realm’s frontier, the long corridor between frontiers is the conflict area and the final squares, the return to winter quarters.
Thinking further, each piece represents an army and landing on an occupied square would be fought as a DBA game with the victor retaining the square and the loser returning to start the game anew.
Eventual completion of the game need not represent a campaign season, but a longer period of time, for example, five years. This would work well for campaigning the Peloponnesian War, each piece representing a different Greek city-state or multiple counters to represent the frequency of aggression by certain city-states, such as Sparta and Athens.
There are a number of routes one could take with this. so, feel free to experiment if you wish.
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Post by Baldie on Jul 31, 2019 8:40:25 GMT
Great vid. Slightly manic beardy types are what drives the world or used to before it was all run by teens on face tube.
Tenuous link but I bought a small box type chess board that folds to make a case about 20 years ago for ten pence. Idea was to use epic stuff to make chess pieces. Now I have matured slightly and taken up historical games, I also wear sandals but no beard will grow properly, I could use 6mm EAP and Greek types.
New project on the go, ur may follow.
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Post by vtsaogames on Jul 31, 2019 20:44:38 GMT
Perhaps each army that exits a board gets to stage a triumph, or at least a parade.
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Post by timurilank on Aug 2, 2019 8:35:21 GMT
Perhaps each army that exits a board gets to stage a triumph, or at least a parade. An interesting idea. Or, the successful nation could be withdrawn from a subsequent round as having earned a period of peace. Ideas, ideas.
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