Game suggestions from the over sixty crowd?!?

[Lets Go Canes]

--- On Mon, 12/13/10, William Case <billlinux at rogers.com> wrote:

> From: William Case <billlinux at rogers.com>
> Subject: Game suggestions from the over sixty crowd?!?
> To: "Fedora List" <users at lists.fedoraproject.org>
> Date: Monday, December 13, 2010, 5:22 PM
> Hi;
> 
> I thought I would like to try a game.  The Fedora Repo
> list gives about
> 60 at least.  I am over sixty, not decrepit yet, but
> certainly don't
> want to continually loose to a reflexes based game.
> 
> What I think I would like (or some combination of some of
> the criteria
> listed)
> a strategy based game; empire or kingdom or city building;
> more based on
> natural economic or societal criteria; perhaps an enemy or
> two but
> enough time between attacks to create a city or whatever, a
> good test of
> strategic thinking as well as occasional tactical
> reactions.  I don't
> think I want an internet game, but I have never tried so
> that is kind of
> an open question.

If you are willing to forgo the empire-building aspects, the game "Go"
would provide all the strategy and tactics you could want.  GnuGo provides
a decent OSS computer opponent.  I know that KDE games provides a GUI for
it with kigo - don't know what Gnome might provide.