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.)
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