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bw1985 t1_itzhglp wrote

There’s a very cool board game that just came out called John Company 2nd edition that allows you to play as one of the families (Hastings, Larkins, etc) while running the company together and competing for the most power and wealth for your family to win the game. You can either follow what historically happened or veer off and recreate history based on how you choose to run the company and which laws parliament passes. Super fun and interesting negotiation game.

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Akkismat t1_iu1wqky wrote

I was busy with an answer to the other deleted post. But have the game also, as a person of Indian descent. It is, for me personally, not about glorifying colonial past and its dark pages. Rather I try to use this game to teach and learn about history and the (very abstract) mechanics, be it economic, social or militarily. Thats why I like most Pax games, as it gives IMO a honest view of history.There are games that perhaps downgrade colonial past Puerto Rico, Colonialism , but I always give a honest view of the history concerned when playing with my kids, family or friends.

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Hairy_Air t1_iu4egcy wrote

Yup, another person of Indian descent but never played the game. I did play a lot of Total War and one of the titles had Europe, India and North America in the 18th century. It was morbidly fun invading my country as the Brits and in a layer gameplay invading the Brit Isles as the Maratha Confederacy.

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Signiference t1_iu1r68u wrote

Played it twice over the last week, first time was company failure in round 4 events in India, game two we lasted all 5 rounds. Lots of fun!

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