Day 5
As it turns out, I didn't show up to class on Day 4; I slept through my alarm, because I had worked the 4-8am shift Tuesday morning. So I returned to class on Wednesday, ready to learn more games. But when they had a shortage of games to teach, I was able to volunteer to teach 1812 to a group of people, which turned out to be a lot more fun than I thought it would be. I had been anticipating to play along with the people I was teaching, but I found out that as the teacher I should be outside the game and help each side strategize and plan. This was news to me, because when I had learned Ticket to Ride earlier, my teacher had played with us. However, I was surprised by the strategy shown by each side and how fun it was to play the advisor to both sides of the conflict. The two guys and two girls I was teaching decided to play guys vs. girls, and while the girls' American troops were initially beating the guys' British troops, the guys managed to pull off a bluff of an attack in Buffalo, enabling them to maneuver into position and take Pittsburgh, one of the American spawning points. This was the first time I had seen this done successfully and with no hope of recapture by the Americans. It was really impressive, especially because they had enough troops to attack remaining American troops in the area, after taking hold of the spawn point.
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