Apologies for the anticipation of a post a week ago - if anyone saw it - I started writing it and then got sidetracked... for a week... On the 22nd of May we had our semi-annual game of Twilight Imperium 3. This game is gargantuan, and requires at least an entire day so we need to plan it weeks or months in advance. There are a group of us who enjoy playing high-conflict, explorey games filled with betrayal, backstabbing and hilarity and are willing to devote hours to creating an alien empire, tabling and voting on ridiculous laws, and in Jeremy's case, suicide-bombing particular players with his explosive fish-ship. During the game there evolved a rivalry between Luke/Jeremy and Matt/Michael. We had expected Luke and Jeremy to be at each other's throats as they were next to each other and can both be very clever but aggressive players. To our shock, they decided that working with each other was more beneficial, and that was terrifying. As the game drew to a close, it became so close between Luke, Matt and Jeff that the alliances came to the fore and there was much bribery and corruption. Luke took it out in the end, with what I think was a well-earned victory. Other than that I have been enjoying games with Angela and her girls' group, Wednesday night gaming and even a lovely lunch-and-a-game with my best friend and his family while the kiddies played. It certainly seems about time for another games night soon so I'll look at my calendar and see where I can schedule one in. Takenoko at Mark's on June 1st with the expansion "Takenoko Chibis" (kindly provided by Martyn). It's a good expansion that adds a GIRL PANDA (!!!), some cool special tiles and cute baby tokens. Sorry guys, I won't buy it for the $54 it's retailing at, but maybe if there was a good sale it might turn up in my collection one day. Games I Have Played in MayColt Express
The Resistance: Avalon Codenames (x3) Dominion (base game) Star Trek: Catan Viceroy Dead Man's Draw Twilight Imperium 3 (with Shards of the Throne & Shattered Empire expansions) Sequence (x3) Catan Perudo (Liar's Dice) Lords of Waterdeep (With Scoundrels of Skullport expansion) Legacy: The Testament of Duke de Crecy Most enjoyed: Legacy: The Testament of Duke de Crecy Why? I just love the story that develops for each player as they build their family. Least enjoyed: Viceroy Why? The theme didn't seem to be attached to the gameplay and it just seemed fiddly for no reason.
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I've had a very busy and tiring couple of weeks, with a few opportunities to play games. May 4th was Devon's birthday so Mark gave me permission to bring him along to our regular Wednesday night games as a birthday treat. We played Kemet and Devon showed how he is as competent at gaming as anyone else. In Kemet you basically have troops that score points by winning battles or hold special areas of the board - it's very fighty! It was the perfect game for a boy his age, so he had a fantastic time! (Although the late night took it's toll.) The next evening a new friend invited me to join her and a couple of her friends for a girls' game night (including dinner!). I was exhausted because I'd had a full-on week, but it was lovely and I had a nice time. She cooked some delicious chicken and we played Dominion, followed by my favourite carrot cake for dessert and then Star Trek Catan. I hadn't played ST: Catan before (and honestly haven't played Catan all that much in general), and the different pieces combined with my overwhelming tiredness meant I was completely useless. Thankfully the other players were helpful. It's really hard to judge since my brain wasn't co-operating but I think I prefer regular Catan because I had difficulty seeing what was going on with the board and pieces due to the space theme. Finally I attended games group last Wednesday and was stoked that my friend Matt (who moved overseas recently) was back in town and could come along. We played a few games for higher player counts since there were a lot of us - Colt Express, Codenames and The Resistance: Avalon. Colt Express is certainly some table candy, it has a model train that your meeples literally move about in and shoot one another. It's fun enough but I don't think it'll ever be a game I'd request. It also feels that we seem to be quite over The Resistance. We used to play it all the time, and we pulled it out half-heartedly as an end-of-the-night game. It's fine but it certainly doesn't shine like it used to.
I really want to play something this weekend but I don't think it'll happen as I'm currently too broke and sore/tired to host. I will update with a date for the next games event at my place soon. (Sorry about the lack of links - BoardGameGeek's search function is currently down.) I've been having pretty early nights at Wednesday games lately since I've been quite tired.
Last Wednesday I bought Mysterium, which 6 of us played. Israel was the ghost so it was cool to play the game on the other side of things. After that we played Cardline: Dinosaurs, which is a little game where you have to try and rank different dinosaurs by length or weight. It's similar to Timeline (which I don't like) but it was pretty cool seeing all the different dinosaurs. Making inserts: The problem with Mysterium is that the cards really need to be sleeved, but once I'd sleeved them I couldn't fit everything back into the fancy insert (A game insert is the piece of plastic or cardboard that is inside the game box. Sometimes it's specially shaped to hold the components.) So today I bought some foamboard to make a custom insert. A couple of people from Wednesday games have made some already, and I watched a YouTube tutorial which made it look easy. Yeah... it's actually pretty time consuming and mine looks a lot messier than the video! But it's coming along. I made the base today and tomorrow I will make a couple of trays to add in. Also, craft is fun. Here's what I've got so far, will update as I progress. |
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