[Icehouse] Pikeman

[miyu]

I had them turn the board diagonally and start in a corner.  Also, being as
it was their first game strategy was a little light.  I will play with the
full piece set next time because upon second playing strategies will
probably start turning up.

                   -Ryan

On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 11:34 AM, Tucker <jazzfish at softhome.net> wrote:

> Yay for more incipient Pikemen players! It's such a delightfully elegant
> game. I'm always glad to see more people playing it.
>
> > For Pikemen i only had Treehouse stashes and it was a shorter class
> period
> > so i let them each get a Treehouse stash and pick two colors.  So they
> > played with 2 large, 2 med, and 2 small.
>
> Huh. Neat. How'd you set up the pieces initially? The only issue I can see
> with that is that, unless you start in a corner, you can open with sending
> out larges to wreak havoc.
>
>
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