Online Caylus at BSW
BSW is a German website that hosts online board games, including a pretty slick verson of Caylus. (Google BSW to get more info, and the two most important commands are /language en to set the UI to English, and /manager to go to the main page if you get stuck in some weird screen.)
Caylus online is very unforgiving if you make an error with the program (such as accidently clicking on the wrong building). Both Tim and I did this several times each game, and I’ve seen it happen in other games while watching as a spectator.
Speaking of Tim — I crush0rz’d in a dual duel of two-player games. No wait, crush0rz’d is letting him off too easy. I p’wnd him. What the heck, I think I p’wn0rz’d him.
I had spent a couple hours the last week watching games, and I think I am a little ahead of him on the basic strategy of the game — the building favor track. He got more overall favors, but he had to take some of them for Deniers or Cubes to stay up with me. With my favors, I was building like a madman. Not only are buildings gradual VPs over the game, they are crucial in that they give you a place to put your worker for 1 Denier after your opponent passes in dueling (remember, it’s $3 to place after passing in two-player).
Now we need to convince Quyen into playing online, so we can p’wn him!