expand their territories <\/strong>in a way the original rules didn\u2019t contemplate.<\/p>\nAs I will explain in a future, diplomacy-themed diary, not all factions start aligned with Clann Turlough or Clann Brian Roe at the beginning of the game. Certain kingdoms start from a position of neutrality and must be summoned by the belligerent claimants before they can take part in the conflict.<\/p>\n
In practical terms, each neutral faction summoned in this fashion becomes a playable faction under the control of whoever controls the lesser kingdoms and gets to it first, effectively increasing their holdings <\/strong>\u2013 and, indirectly, the power of the main clan to which they are allied.<\/p>\nThis is interesting from a ludic perspective, as it gives the game some measure of emergent gameplay \u2013 <\/strong>the capacity to combine or explore rules in such ways that arrive at unpredictable outcomes.<\/p>\nAt the same time, allowing factions to be merged provides the game more flexibility to accommodate different numbers of players.<\/p>\n
With 5 players <\/strong>(a number I consider ideal), two persons control one of the O\u2019Brien clans (Turlough and Brian Roe) each, two other players control their allies, and a fifth controls the English.<\/p>\nSmaller groups, however, can \u201cbreak up\u201d the allies\u2019 factions in two, allowing up to seven people to join the match \u2013 although they obviously risk seeing only half the action.<\/p>\n
In the same way, if there are not enough people to play, clans Turlough and Brian Roe can be grouped with their respective allies in a single super-faction, making it possible for as little as three players <\/strong>to play the game.<\/p>\nSomething will obviously be lacking in these alternative setups. By controlling all of one\u2019s allies as well as one\u2019s faction, the whole stress of depending on the actions of others goes out of the window. At the same time, this could be interesting to teachers who wish to use Turlough<\/em> in the classroom. It\u2019s sometimes easier to break up a class in groups of three, and a limited number of players will also make play sessions shorter.<\/p>\nIt will take some time for us to determine if the idea works. Fortunately, we don\u2019t have to do that by ourselves anymore. The Triumphs of Turlough <\/em>has just entered an open testing phase, which means we\u2019ll start receiving feedback from a number of selected historians and game enthusiasts.<\/p>\nGreat changes lie ahead \u2013 and I\u2019ll be here to write about all of them!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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