Rowan Tree and Red Thread

Played a game of Babel with alaimacerc last night. It's pretty confusingly written and it took us a couple of turns to figure out what we were doing. Maybe we shouldn't have bothered, as the Hittites made the game end a couple of turns later with an anticlimactic temple grab that switched the score from 10-10 to 15-9 in a fell swoop. The game is interesting, but there's a fair dollop of chaos in the actual play. Not bad for a filler though, and there's plenty of scope for jokes about your favourite ancient nation or tribe from the Fertile Crescent (queue Asterix and the Black Gold).