BGWS 003 - Friedrich
Friedrich - a heavy euro/wargame hybrid where one strong player takes on the others using a card-driven combat system.
This week on Board Games with Scott, I take a look at Friedrich. This game is much deeper that other games I've looked at so far, but part of what I'm going to do with Board Games with Scott is to try and cover games across the spectrum of the board game hobby. Friedrich is a hybrid Euro/wargame that is an excellent crossover game to allow folks who have played Euros and are curious about wargames to try something with a bit of the wargame flavor.
Please note - due to the tools used and the compression, the close-up example of some of the textual cards is not very clear. I've since learned that's a problem with the free IMovie, so I've switchehttp://www.blogger.com/img/gl.link.gifd editing programs to Final Cut Express. Once I get comfortable with the new tool, I should be able to include clearer photos and scans.
I'm also looking into some of the other video hosting solutions (instead of YouTube). Boardgameswithscott.com is the best place to see the videos, no matter where they move.
Episode 003 - Friedrich at YouTube (Streaming Flash)
If you are having trouble with YouTube, you can also download the MPEG-4 file directly.
More information about Friedrich can be found at Boardgamegeek.
Next week, I'll be looking at the game that got me into this hobby - Adel Verflichtet / Hoity Toity.
posted by Scott Nicholson @ 9:49 PM
7 Comments:
OMG!
You are truly putting the geek into boardgamegeek!
Keep it up, I think it's great.
I'd like to see you look at 7 Ages, Indonesia, or El Grande in a future episode. These are all games in my collection I am yet to play.
Excellent!
For new gamers, I suppose the idea is to expose them to a wide spectrum of accessible yet rich games.
For existing gamers, I think we'd all like to see games that we don't know much about first-hand. So for me, this would be: Alexandros, Triumvirates, Goa, Kreta, Medici, Royal Turf.
Personally, Scott, I would even enjoy a more in-depth description of the games if you wanted to make longer episodes. It could work as if you are trying to fully teach the game.
Looking forward to your next one.
- Jim
Excellent introduction to the game. Also feel that for a medium to heavy weight game a few more minutes would be quite acceptable.
Not sure about the hat though :)
I really enjoy these video podcasts. Just enough information to allow me to see if it's something I'd enjoy. Very well done. Keep up the good work.
Hmm, for other hosting solutions... you could try ourmedia.org, which doesn't recompress your videos (in which case, it should be the same quality as what you have on your university network). I've also found dailymotion.com to have *slightly* better quality than youtube and google video, but most of these video sites will have approximately the same quality because of their resizing and recompression into Flash. From what I've read, newer versions of Flash (8, and the upcoming 8.5) have better quality, but these sites haven't begun using them yet.
Nice :-)
Polarity seems to have a lot of questions from people with the game. It would be great to see this game explained in video!
Hee hee. I've got Polarity, but I'm not good enough to make the game work right! I have a heckuva time getting the disks to float.
This might be one that I do at a con where someone who knows the game can do the demoing while I talk..
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