Had some friends up over New Year. Played a ton of stuff including 3 games of Hansa Teutonica. 2 on the base map and one on Britannia. I find the Britannia rules don’t add anything and take a lot away tbh. Just that it has Cardiff, Plymouth and Cambridge on it.
El Grande. It’s so good. Area control with a brilliant action selection/ turn order auctionish mechanic. I just adore it. These two are probably my top 2 right now.
Root. Enjoyable 5 player game. Base factions with Lizard Cult. I want to play this enough to not have the rules open the whole time. We have a lot of big Vagabond wins. Need to put the little blighter back in their box more often.
Ark Nova. Our friend’s new favourite game. Very Terraforming Marsy. Lots of cards, lots of combo actions. Little interaction apart from a few cards that feel like tacked on nonsense. The production is amazing and I like the stock images. A year ago I’d have loved this. I enjoyed it a lot more than I’d feared, but right now a 30 minute teach for a 2 hour game? Give me 5 minutes of rules and 3 games of HT any day.
A couple of games of Azul. I won once, the image upthread shows how well the other game went.
Finished with Micro Macro: Full House
Played the first 4 cases. Similar to the first one. I really want to pin the map on the wall! Going back to it was great. I was tired of the first game by the time we’d completed it.