#johncompany

[illuminatinggames]

Another play of John Company! I’ve always wanted to own a Scottish Island via commercial oppression of an entire subcontinent. So, I’ve come to a few realizations about this game. Firstly, the rules are not great. I just discovered a rule I’ve been playing wrong all this time; fairly minor, but still. I have this complexity metric: how many plays does it take before I can play the game correctly with confidence. I’m apparently still making rules errors on this sucker at play 7 or 8. I don’t think the game is complicated, I think it’s just a case of a not-great rulebook. Second, and I’m surprised it took me this long to figure this out, but it seems clear the game you want to play here is the full 10-turn “campaign” game with possible deregulation. The costs and returns of various player investments seem clearly calibrated for playing 10 turns, not 6. In a short game, things like Captains and Shipyards are clearly pretty expensive for very limited return on investment, and even Factories are a crap shoot. All these take most of a 6 turn game just to recoup their costs, never mind actually make money. So after just turn 2 maybe and 3 definitely doing any of these things just doesn’t make any sense. But in a 10 turn game, where these investments with large up front costs have a lot longer to pay off, it seems like everything would open up quite a bit. With 4 players we got through 6 turns in about 3 hours, so 10 turns would be longish for this sort of game, but far from crazy. So anyway, now I’m super-curious to try that. The game has grown on me in the last couple plays as we’ve gotten the hang of the favor mechanic and have been able to manage the company more successfully. Although the game takes up to 6 players, I do recommend 4p as a good spot for pacing reasons. Like Pax Porfiriana, I’m not sure there is enough in there to really support 6 players. #bgg #boardgamegeek #boardgames #sierramadregames #colewerhle #johncompanyboardgame #johncompany #tabletopgames #boardgamenight #brettspiel #j2s (at Portola Valley, California) https://www.instagram.com/p/B9gPqcwhk9s/?igshid=5g130sr28onc

[chrisjohngoff]

New game day! #johncompany @life_by_lucy_ (at Chester, Hoole) https://www.instagram.com/p/CMsgbjZFnqabFbMPBAPxVFDiKTbuVJWkVUw5gQ0/?igshid=b2ictvyybo11

[msaari]

John Company was seriously complicated. Too complicated, really. I’m not sure I want to take the effort to learn it properly. A bit of a disappointment, perhaps. #johncompany #lautapelaamaan #boardgames #boardgame (paikassa Kaapelitehdas) https://www.instagram.com/p/BnvewLNj-RD/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=e45fc11lypfh

[artbookdap]

From 'Masterworks: Rare and Beautiful Chess Sets of the World’ by @fuelpublishing - Made for export to patrician European households of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the ivory chess sets hand-carved in Berhampur, India, for the East India Company (aka the “John Company") are today among the most highly sought after by chess collectors. #chess #fuelpublishing #artbook #artbookdap #johncompany #eastindiacompany #johncompanychess #eastindiachess

[ananovareviews]

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[romirplayhouse]

Ajudando a escrever a história da Companhia das Índias Orientais em JOHN COMPANY, de Cole Wehrle, pela Sierra Madre Games. #colewehrle #sierramadregames #johncompany #ieco #economia #mercantilismo #jogodetabuleiro #boardgames #brettspiele https://www.instagram.com/p/Bqz40ZYDO73/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=iqydlg0htrgt

[ananovareviews]

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[ananovareviews]

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[illuminatinggames]

John Company. Trying out the Post-Monopoly scenario for the first time. I actually liked this quite a bit, it might be a bit more interesting and dynamic than the early company scenario. The deal-making over launching and funding firms is a bit more comprehensible than the bureaucratic turf wars, and the competition with successful firms may encourage the Company to behave marginally more responsibly and not require endless bailouts the way we usually see in the earlier scenarios. It still has a bit of a learning curve though; it’ll take a game probably to get the feel for how the firms work and what a sensible level of capitalization is. And although John Company is generally fairly spare rules-wise, it’s still a little finicky. Anyway, still enjoying it a lot but I wish it were a touch shorter and a bit easier to play - especially in light of playing the designer’s Root in the same session and seeing how efficient and effective a design that game is. I’m not sure the underlying economic model is quite as solid as it could be. But like most SMG titles, it’s evocative and fun and now I do want to try this scenario again! 😀 Funny aside: these days I usually buy two copies of new Sierra Madre games, just because they seem to be so conservative on print runs that they sell out quickly and usually are then worth a lot on the secondary market. Plus I usually like them a lot. I’ve sold my second copies of Greenland, Pax Renaissance, Pax Pamir, and High Frontier for multiples of what I paid. But I didn’t snag a second John Company for some reason and now I see it’s going for a good chunk of change as well 😄 #bgg #boardgamegeek #boardgames #johncompany #sierramadregames (at Game Kastle - Mountain View) https://www.instagram.com/p/Bnz0akthLhK/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=lpswxphh0yr0