For Titan, if you'd like to learn the game, you can pretty easily play the Java version to learn how things work. You'd want to have the rules handy or someone who knows how to play to explain how the rules work, though.

It's been forever since I've made a gaming session-- I haven't even seen the new house. Sigh.

Nevertheless, I've managed to get a small group together every now and then to play. In fact, just a few days ago I was up in my hometown (Denton) and got to game with a couple of my old highschool gaming buddies Weldon and Chris, as well as Chris's son, nephew, and a friend-- now all just finishing high school. Oh, but time does march on...

Anyhow, we had three traditional favorites to pick from: Titan, Diplomacy, and Civilization. We opted for the last one and enjoyed five hours of total immersion. In the end, the trio of teenagers was still hobbling about with very little to show for their confused efforts while we three oldies were neck-in-neck for the grand prize. I ended up snatching a victory, but I will be the first to confess that I owed a lot to the luck of the draw. The calamity cards are honest-to-god random killers.

Was it fun? Yes. Quite so, and yet there are qualities about it that might cause one to chant "flawed...flawed...flawed" over and over with some justification.