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In which I realize something about Caylus
It struck me that, if Dwight Schrute played board games, Caylus would be his favorite game by far:
1. It's an minimal-luck efficiency exercise in which you get to show how much smarter you are than the other players.
2. The goal of the game is to become second-in-command.
3. It's an obscure game that no one has ever heard of, and even won an obscure award that was an offshoot of an obscure prize, so Dwight can use his knowledge of it to feel superior.
4. The food cubes are the color of the perfect food: the beet.
5. It features a petty bureaucrat (the provost) whose sole function in the game is to tell people what they can and cannot do.
I also think the odds are good that his maternal grandfather (the one who killed twenty enemy soldiers before being captured and spending the rest of WWII in an Allied prison camp) designed Juden Raus. That's just a theory though.
Ways to improve Caylus to make it even more of a Dwight-game:
1. Bear attacks.
One of these days when I have more free time I'll write up a hypothetical script to a "Boardgames With Schrute" video review.
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I think it is more of a communist game. You're building some useless building to prop up some dictator's ego. The provost is actually some Party Boss who doesn't really do anything useful but enforce the quotas that come down from the Kremlin. The Baliff represents those directives from the Kremlin. Promising to build parts of the castle but not actually doing it represents losing favor within the party. Too much and you take the train east. Going out first...You get paid whether you put in a full days work or not. The other saps who worked harder have to actually pay off other party bosses to do it.The other night I was idly clicking through news reports on the (apparent) end of the writer's strike. The only TV show I currently bother to watch is The Office.
It struck me that, if Dwight Schrute played board games, Caylus would be his favorite game by far:
1. It's an minimal-luck efficiency exercise in which you get to show how much smarter you are than the other players.
2. The goal of the game is to become second-in-command.
3. It's an obscure game that no one has ever heard of, and even won an obscure award that was an offshoot of an obscure prize, so Dwight can use his knowledge of it to feel superior.
4. The food cubes are the color of the perfect food: the beet.
5. It features a petty bureaucrat (the provost) whose sole function in the game is to tell people what they can and cannot do.
I also think the odds are good that his maternal grandfather (the one who killed twenty enemy soldiers before being captured and spending the rest of WWII in an Allied prison camp) designed Juden Raus. That's just a theory though.
Ways to improve Caylus to make it even more of a Dwight-game:
1. Bear attacks.
One of these days when I have more free time I'll write up a hypothetical script to a "Boardgames With Schrute" video review.
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Caylus is Feudalism propaganda. You find that idea supported surprisingly often in democracies. Like having a benevolent leader bearing full executive, legislative and judiciary powers, and 10% taxation for every citizen.
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Perhaps Dwight would play Agricola, but better yet, he would probably dismiss it as being a poorly designed game because you can't grow beets, nor can you sell beets on the side of the road.
Furthermore, don't you think Dwight would be drooling in anticipation over FFG's recently announced Battlestar Galactica game?
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I was going to say you can't bribe the provost, but I guess that's what paying the up to 3 gold represents.
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