Recent Boardgames (Your Last Played Game Volume 2)

[Phil]

@lalunaverde

Fjords - this is the reimplementation and it goes up to 4, instead of 2. Still dont like how Phase 2 is pretty much solved with no decisions. Basically, Phase 1 is where everything is played and then Phase 2 are a bunch of obvious decisions and you do decide who you want to deny pts in regards to competitive spaces

That’s some good validation for me.

Last game you DIDN'T buy?

Fjords. It cropped up in discussion while I was looking at 2-player area control games. It sounded interesting, but I have a feeling that my partner would hate it. It’s a game where you spend the first half laying tiles to build a shared landscape, and strategically placing your 4 houses, and the second half placing as many meeples as possible. Your points all come from that second half, but my impression is that almost the entire game is in the first half, such that anyone who plans their e…