Two games of Twilight Imperium! TWO! That’s… a lot! And I have another tenatively scheduled for late April… I might hit that 10 game target this year! Playing with 4 players helps a lot… makes the game whiz by.
The Battletech Campaign continues to be a lot of fun, but my co-op player (Nick) lost his father a few weeks back and has been adjusting to his new reality so no scheduled games yet. And Earthborne Rangers continues to lightly bewilder me… it’s fine, but gosh I don’t get the massive hype cycle around around.
Space Empires continues apace, and I’m actually playing another game of it right now (which will bring me up to 8 total games very soon). The Steam implimentation of it is very, very bad at the moment, and it’s slated for a June release… it’s so bad that, if everyone is having the experience that I’m having, they really shouldn’t have released a demo of it. I love SE4X, and the demo of the video game is so bad that I might skip it. It’s real bad. And my bar is very low!
Oh, and I just got my 40th anniversary edition of Tales of the Arabian Nights… so might get that to the table a few times soon! We’ll have to see!
There are a few expansions I didn’t know came out (another expansion for HEAT, which won’t fit in the box… but I haven’t played HEAT at all this year, soooooo…), and a few on the horizon games that I’m curious about, but don’t have the money for. Ah well. Still hoping to check everything off this list soon!
First time to the table (goal is 1 per month):
Jan - Thunder Road: Vendetta
Feb - Alien: Fate of the Nostromo, Dark Souls: the Card Game
Mar - Castle Panic
Games to replay (twice) from 2025 challenge: The Hobbit: There and Back Again
Hot Streak
Lord of the Rings: Duel for Middle-Earth
Sherlock Holmes Consulting Detective: Jack the Ripper and West End Adventures
Fortune and Glory
Courtisans
DC Super Heroes United: Batman Hush
Legacy of Yu
Metal Gear Solid: the Board Game - 1/2
Unmatched: The Witcher - Realms Fall
Unmatched: The Witcher - Steel and Silver
Fall of Rome
No progress on replays, but at least staying ahead of my first plays.
March was a lot of Small Fjords: I also managed to the maximum score once!
At the start of the month I played a series of low-bandwidth SI but as the month continued, work once again overtook everything and I didn’t get to play much outside of small tile laying games.
My “a game a day” streak is on-going at 100 days as of yesterday (I have yet to play something today)
BGA plays:
Solo Draft & Write Records: complex Flip and Write I didnt read the rules for
Solo Heat: I forgotten the rules and was too lazy to relearn and… lost badly.
Daybreak & Revive with my friend. The games are very slow because I am too busy to do my moves.
My 10x10 challenge has moved a bit but not much:
I am now at 50/100 played
Naturopolis (10/10)
Beacon Patrol (10/10) +3
Spirit Island 8/10 +6
Cascadia 6/10
Let’s Go To Japan 5/10 +4
Sanctuary 4/10
Hispania 3/10
Red Rising 2/10
Mistborn 1/10
My multiplayer challenge has seen no changes so far.
But I did get to play a big round of 3 player Firefly. So yay!
I doubt the next two months will see a lot of gaming we have about 6 weeks until the big software release (1. Release).
I’m doing great with my BGA-allowed 20x5 (no I’m not feeling very motivated at work - why do you ask?). Less progress with the solo 10x10, which is now a 12x10
April Mini Challenge: Raffle Prizes
Had a most fortunate time at a charity raffle last year. For April, the aim is to play all the prizes, either for the first time , first time with my copy or first time this year .
(10/10)
, first time with my copy 
or first time this year 
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