Beitragvon Christian Hildenbrand » 24. Oktober 2006, 13:30
Huhu,
bis was deutsches kommt, hier der Text und noch eine Variante von Bruno Faidutti:
If you play Manhattan, I suggest you use the "Godzilla" variant provided in the english rules from the Mayfair edition. If you happen to have another edition, here is how it works: Godzilla can be figured by any big plastic or wooden figure - if you're really snob, an Elfenroads Dragon fits well. At the beginning of the game, Godzilla is placed on any one square on the board. During the game, everytime a player plays a card, Godzilla moves in the direction dictated by the card. If this card indicates the center square of a district, Godzilla doesn't move. For sake of Godzilla moves, the six districts are considered adjacent on a 3 x 2 grid. When Godzilla arrives on a square, he destroys any building on it, and the building pieces are removed from the game.
If you find the Godzilla game too violent, try my own "King-Kong" variant. King-Kong may be figured by the yellow "first player" pawn (and you can use your Elfenroads Dragon as first player pawn, it's its natural use). King-Kong moves like Godzilla, but only destroys the topmost piece of the building he is landing on. If the card indicates the center square of a district, Godzilla stays where he is, destroying one more piece of the same building, if possible. Two more recent games are clearly indebted to Manhattan, though in two very different ways, Capitol and Meridian. Both are cleverly made, but none of them has the simplicity and the evidence of Manhattan, which will probably become a classic amongst boardgames.
Monsterliche Grüße,
Christian