I'm one of those that never really heard of this game, but now I want to go find a copy. Great game with a fun dramatic finish! And you know it's a classic HC stream when there is a Glory-to-Rome directed at someone in the peanut gallery.
Placing the merging tile upside-down can help showing that it does not count as any of the companies until after the merger. Kind of how you place the big red thingy on the merging tile in Yellow & Yangtze.
Classic old school game. The game gets balanced by the players. If there is an obvious leader, everyone goes after them. Same thing happens in Dune and Cosmic Encounter. It's not always perfect, but then if you lose, play it again.
Game looks really cool. Just one quick question, why did Edward go first, it seems to me like 3F is closer to 1A then 9A is, unless I have a different understanding of "closer" than the game does? The obvious thing would be to use the taxicab metric. Edit: But actually, even the standard euclidean metric in this case should have 3F closest, though in other cases you could get different answers between taxicab and euclidean (say 7G vs 12A, 12A is taxicab closer but 7G is euclidean closer). But in general Euclidean either requires some kind of straight edge or at least squaring some numbers where taxicab is just counting, so much easier.
@@vexingarcanix95 Ah, I see, thank you. On the one hand that seems to me to be an odd use of the word "close" but on the other hand it's the easiest to evaluate and unlike either of the ones I suggested there's no possibility for two to be equally close. So I think it's the best way to do it. Sorry for the confusion, I guess I got too fixated on the word "closer"
All-time great! In an alternate universe, Acquire is the game every home has in the closet instead of Monopoly. :)
I totally agree!
Absolutely this.
manjr I have the 3M version to this day. 👍
I'm one of those that never really heard of this game, but now I want to go find a copy. Great game with a fun dramatic finish! And you know it's a classic HC stream when there is a Glory-to-Rome directed at someone in the peanut gallery.
Placing the merging tile upside-down can help showing that it does not count as any of the companies until after the merger. Kind of how you place the big red thingy on the merging tile in Yellow & Yangtze.
Oooh good call there! We'll do that going forward. Thanks for the tip, Tor!
Is this custom made? Or is this a printing? Would love to have this game but it seams OOP
Nope, not custom. Just an older edition. It's a very old game, but with a plethora of editions available second-hand! Good luck.
Classic old school game. The game gets balanced by the players. If there is an obvious leader, everyone goes after them. Same thing happens in Dune and Cosmic Encounter. It's not always perfect, but then if you lose, play it again.
Game looks really cool. Just one quick question, why did Edward go first, it seems to me like 3F is closer to 1A then 9A is, unless I have a different understanding of "closer" than the game does? The obvious thing would be to use the taxicab metric. Edit: But actually, even the standard euclidean metric in this case should have 3F closest, though in other cases you could get different answers between taxicab and euclidean (say 7G vs 12A, 12A is taxicab closer but 7G is euclidean closer). But in general Euclidean either requires some kind of straight edge or at least squaring some numbers where taxicab is just counting, so much easier.
It’s as if the board is read like a book, top row first, then second row, etc. That’s why 9A is considered closer to 1A than 3F is.
@@vexingarcanix95 Ah, I see, thank you. On the one hand that seems to me to be an odd use of the word "close" but on the other hand it's the easiest to evaluate and unlike either of the ones I suggested there's no possibility for two to be equally close. So I think it's the best way to do it. Sorry for the confusion, I guess I got too fixated on the word "closer"
Once you learn how to play ACQUIRE then you should learn everything else about the game at www.acquisitiongames.com/
Thank you YT for the 2x speed button. Jess at 5 minutes a move is at least tolerable.
The newest version is bad. They changed the rules.
We use paper money every day. But not in board games Cmon get over it use the paper the other figures were confusing.