Civilized at Last
Yesterday was a historic day, we actually managed to finish a game of Civilization for the first time, a true epic. Civilization is one of those games that you have to be just a little crazy to play because of the length of time it takes to complete. Three friends (here, here and here) rocked up at my place yesterday at around 10:30 am and we started in on our journey through ancient history. After a road trip to the local shopping centre to get lunch, some pizza, lots of snacks and some really good laughs we finally finished at around 11pm after numerous rounds of taxation and movement and city building and trading, not to mention numerous disasters visited upon our fledgling civilizations at the most inconvenient moments. I’m glad to say that I emerged the victor but I think that I wouldn’t have cared had I come last because it was such a good day (although I didn’t think so this morning at 8:30 when I was running up and down Montefiore Hill for City to Bay training). In future I think that my fellow players will be less likely to let me carve out an empire in Asia Minor in relative peace and stability whilst the Assyrians, Babylonians and Egyptians fight over the rest of the eastern Mediterranean and I don’t think I can count on such a good run with disasters again.
All in all a very enjoyable day and I hope that we can do it again sometime.
