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- From: rollins+@cs.cmu.edu (Gene Rollins)
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- Subject: Re: Review: AMBITION aka SCHOCKO & CO.
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- Date: 21 Dec 92 17:03:49 GMT
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- I will second the nomination of Schoko & Co as a great game. It
- has really good player interaction, and little luck.
-
- Schoko & Co is made in Germany, and Games People Play give English
- Translations of the rules and cards. Is Ambition from England?
-
- There is also a very favorable review of this game by Allan Moon.
- In this review he notes that the Express cards are not well-balanced
- and adds luck to the game. He suggests playing without them, or
- using his alternate set. I tired playing without them with good
- success. The express cards each feature a disaster that you can inflict
- upon another player. There is also a disaster card that is inflicted
- on everyone equally at the end of each round, which adds enough
- uncertainity and interest to the game.
-
- Players can also buy shares of a money market fund. I find this to be
- useless bookkeeping. I have played both with and without them. The
- game is better without them.
-
- Another variation is that we let the chairman raise the price of
- a contract by 1-10 K marks (or dollars) instead of just 1-5.
-
- Is Ambition limited in the number of total employees available to all
- players? We do not let players hire more employees than the game
- pieces allow. We also do not allow players to hire more than 5 of any
- empolyee type. I am not sure whether these restrictions should really
- apply.
-
- Does anyone else have variations of this game? Does anyone else HAVE this
- game? .......gene
-