Cartagena (2000)
So when I started to teach our unit on argumentative writing, I had the students develop a skin of a game that would focus on teaching players about a topic they were passionate about. When I asked my students what games they wanted to skin, that student said he wanted to skin Cartagena so that it would focus on the Civil Rights marches of the 1960s in Alabama. Oh my! It was an incredibly intriguing game. And when he said he wanted to skin it, I knew I needed to buy it.
Cartagena is set during 1672 and focuses on a jailbreak led by pirates from the famous Cartagena, Spain. Players must navigate their pirates through the tunnel to the ship and escape before they are
caught. The game has a set collection format that allows you to move your pirates along the path. It is all about strategy and timing.
Interesting. I have a husband who loves history and a brother with a fondness for pirates... sounds like I might need to look around for this. Your student's retheme also sounds like it'd be worth owning. What a great idea for a project!
ReplyDeleteWe were at a board game party where a lot of different games were played, but the highlight of the evening (and the one we decided to make note of for the December challenge), was Condottiere. Ours is the pre-Fantasy Flight version from Euro Games, so the cards are an unusual size, but it's still one of my favorites.