carbon_dragon wrote:
TheOneTrueZeke wrote:
I personally don't know anyone who can teach the rules better than a decently written rule book.
I can help with that. Try High Frontier, Myth, Banner Saga Warbands, and maybe Bios Genesis. Note that I like 3 of these very much, but the manuals are tough to learn from. For extra credit, try High Frontier 2nd edition rather than the better written (but still tough) 3rd edition.
I expect after that you'll appreciate YouTube videos and a good teacher a bit more. I know I did.:p
Seriously, yes a well written rule book is great, but I seldom see them.
It may take effort to learn from the rule book but you're only ever going to get a cross section of a very complicated game from someone teaching you the rules. At best you'll get a reasonably complete approximation of the rules with exceptions and one offs only coming up when you actually play the game.
For actually learning the rules to a game and internalizing them there's no substitute for reading the rule book.
In my experience someone who has never read the rule book, even if they've played the game several times, always screws up when they try to teach that game.