I finally won a game of Twilight Imperium after 9 straight losses and my group refuses to play with me again
Took me 8 hours last Saturday at my buddy Dave's place in Columbus to finally pull off a win as the Emirates of Hacan, and now two guys in my group are saying the factions are unbalanced and they want to ban trading. I pointed out they've beaten me 9 times in a row and nobody complained about balance then, and now Dave won't return my texts about next month's game. Has anyone else had a group fall apart the second you finally win one?
The part about them banning trading after your first win really gets me, because that is such a classic move. I went through something close to this with my old Risk crew years back. I won one game after losing something like seven in a row, and suddenly the guy who hosted started saying the dice were cursed and he needed a break from the game. We never played again. It stings more than the losing did, honestly, because you figure out the game was never the point for them. Dave not answering your texts says a lot about him, not about Hacan. Give it a couple weeks and see if he cools off, but if he doesn't, that is his problem to sit with.