Mü in alpha

[dudi2]

Hi reviewers,

Mü, an award winning game from Doris & Frank, is now available for alpha testing:

https://boardgamearena.com/reviewer?game=mue

Mü is regarded by many as one of the best offerings in the trick-taking genre, best played with 5 players.

If you do not know the game so far, we strongly recommend to read the rules before playing.

Some basic strategy tips:
- Newbies should be defensive in bidding to find out how high they can go to successfully play their hand. Bids of 1-3 cards can usually be won, bids of 4-6 cards are more difficult to win, higher bids are in most cases not easy to win. To pass at the right moment is important.
- If one does not want to be the chief or the vice it is useful to show some interesting cards with the goal to be selected by the chief as partner, as chief and partner get nice bonus points if they achieved their team target. One example for this is to show a small enough card of the color where you have a 9 while being careful to not being vice after placement of that card.
- Chief's team normally leads their first tricks with a trump card to reduce the number of trumps in the opposite team.

Have fun!

[dudi2]

New version deployed.

Important changes since initial alpha version:

- Show current number of hand cards in player table
- Overlay a flash on Chief icon when this player currently is an Eclateer
- Show current team target on Infotable
- Implemented an user preference option to indicate teams using colors or a border:

Indicate teams ...
- only by symbols CVP
- with background at Chief's team red - other team green
- with background at my team green - other team red (default option)
- with a border around my team's bid areas

[dudi2]

New version deployed.

New feature:
- Implemented an user preference option to add confirmation timer (useful for touchscreen devices)

Improvements:
- Increased time between last card of trick and movement of cards to player who wins the trick to 1.5 seconds
- Overlap bidden cards if more than 10 cards are bidden by one player
- Show game length (if it is not standard gamelength to 200 points)
- Improved game progression status for tournament mode game length

Have fun!

[dudi2]

Like many card games Mü is best played at real-time tables. To make appointments easier you can join the 'Mue real-time appointments' group here: https://boardgamearena.com/group?id=10940796

All people interested in real-time games of Mü are invited to join this group!

Have fun!

[dudi2]

New version deployed.

Improvements:
- Fixed bug: bonus points were wrong if chief trump is 0
- Implemented suggestion: Slide hand cards of other players from bid table player names to bid table or trick table
- Add final scoreboard to game log

Like many card games Mü is best played at real-time-tables. To make appointments easier you can join the 'Mue real-time appointments' group here: https://boardgamearena.com/group?id=10940796

Game is ready to collect approvals to move on towards beta.

Have fun!

[dudi2]

New version deployed.

Improvements:
- Fixed bug: malus points were wrong in 5-player-mode on 6-player-tables
- Fixed bug: show paused player correctly in full scoreboard in 5-player-mode on 6-player-tables (without need of F5)
- Improved language: Sort by requested trump -> Sort by expected trump
- Implemented suggestion: Automatically play last card of each player in turn-based mode

Like many card games Mü is best played at real-time-tables. To make appointments easier you can join the 'Mue real-time appointments' group here: https://boardgamearena.com/group?id=10940796

Game is ready to collect approvals to move on towards beta.

Have fun!

[dudi2]

New verision depolyed.

Improvements:
- Rearranged bid tables for 6 player games
- 1st version of turn-based-appointment scheduler

Like many card games Mü is best played at real-time-tables. To make appointments easier you can join the 'Mue real-time appointments' group here: https://boardgamearena.com/group?id=10940796
For turn-based we introduce a new idea to try to get all player to the table at the same time (when auction phase ended) to play their cards down in 5-10 minutes before going back to turn-based to determine chief and vice for the next hand.

Enjoy!

[DrBlues]

Hello, I would love to be added to the Mu alpha group if you would allow it. Thank you!

[grandslam]

I would love to be part of the alpha as well. Excited for when it becomes beta and happy to help it get there.

[WithLove]

I would love to be an alpha mu player as well. I’m familiar with the rules of the game already, but am not an expert player.