Review: Trailer Park Wars
Dec. 8th, 2008 08:21 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
livingdebI went game shopping for myself last week and one of my new treasures was "Trailer Park Wars." It wasn't recommended and I saw no signs of any awards, but it had irresistible game pieces (which I decided Robin would like even more than I did), plus it was for ages 13+, implying it had some teeth to it.
The bad news is that the best pieces (little rubber pink flamingos and cards with photos of actual and interesting trailers) have very little to do with the game play. The good news is that the game play is just fine after all, unless you can't stand being mean to the other players or having anyone be mean to you.
Everyone starts off with their own trailer park full of trailers and they draw cards of possible tenants, amenities, and natural disasters. You want to put the good tenants in your own park and the bad tenants in someone else's park, get lots of good amenities like your own beer vending machine, pair up tenants who get along, and avoid natural disasters, unless perhaps you can aim them at your more destructive tenants. Score is kept with loads of little pink flamingos.
The game is more fun if you read your cards as you play them, preferably in some kind of strong accent. Board Game Geek gives it a rating of 6.34 out of 10. Not bad for a nearly random pick.
Quote of the Day - At work I was asking one of my colleagues about whether they had a policy about something and I got this response: "Everybody is a 'special case' all the time. That's our policy."
(Is it more rude for me to say who said it out here in public or is it more rude for me not to attribute this quote?)
The bad news is that the best pieces (little rubber pink flamingos and cards with photos of actual and interesting trailers) have very little to do with the game play. The good news is that the game play is just fine after all, unless you can't stand being mean to the other players or having anyone be mean to you.
Everyone starts off with their own trailer park full of trailers and they draw cards of possible tenants, amenities, and natural disasters. You want to put the good tenants in your own park and the bad tenants in someone else's park, get lots of good amenities like your own beer vending machine, pair up tenants who get along, and avoid natural disasters, unless perhaps you can aim them at your more destructive tenants. Score is kept with loads of little pink flamingos.
The game is more fun if you read your cards as you play them, preferably in some kind of strong accent. Board Game Geek gives it a rating of 6.34 out of 10. Not bad for a nearly random pick.
Quote of the Day - At work I was asking one of my colleagues about whether they had a policy about something and I got this response: "Everybody is a 'special case' all the time. That's our policy."
(Is it more rude for me to say who said it out here in public or is it more rude for me not to attribute this quote?)