An interesting game with good mechanics which I completely suck at.
Two words, Magic Bunny
4 Likes
Only played it with the Tekelili group on BGA. So would be keen to play for real.
Cthulhu Wars - glad to have this game back again. Last time we played was February.
I was the Cats with such a different playstyle. You want to stay with your opponents and not fight at all. You have a floor of 1 VP per round and a ceiling of 5 VP per round which is coool af. I would love to play more with the cats.
3 Likes
(re Automobiles)
I have a copy, including the expansion (more tracks, more cards, campaign mode).
3 Likes
Blokus
Cosmic Encounter + expansions - glad to play. Keen to see more plays of this. Excellent trashy fun
Forks x2 - played at full 6 players. Glad to have a quick filler that goes for this player count. Good fun!
Courtisans x2 - continue infecting more people with Courtisans
Blokus x2 - remains the best abstract game that goes above 2 players
11 Likes
Just played 2-player Imperium (Minoans vs Persians) and finally managed to break myself of the Glory cycle, instead concentrating on slimming down the deck and rushing for Empire status. At which point I discovered I didnât have any way of acquiring cards, oops. But there was a dev card that let me do it, and I ended up with what I think is my best score yet.
8 Likes
Holiday games
Potato Man (2 player). Pretty decent 2 player trick taker. I really like the points are separate from the tricks.
Seaside. Meh. No real choices here, but itâs pretty quick
L.L.A.M.A. Most played game of the holiday, thereâs only one real choice in the game but itâs a good one in the 20 minutes it takes. Would like to try the Party version but itâs very OOP.
3 Likes
I really only start to go for glory when I feel Iâm in a pretty strong position.
2 Likes
Love it! My daughter absolutely destroys at it, its uncanny
2 Likes
We managed to play Scenario 3 and 4 of Mandalorian Adventures today. Especially that last map was far from trivial and we needed 2 attempts.
I then proceeded to ignore the rest of the ârules explanation campaignâ and sorted the rest of the cards and materials into the box.
Note: this is not really a campaign game. More like the types of campaigns that Revive or Spacebase do⌠pseudo campaigns that are just there to introduce various mechanisms.
In this case it makes at least some sense as the four maps correspond to some of the fights in the showâs first season (I am expecting an expansion to cover the 2nd season and add the characters from that).
I am happy to have found a cooperative skirmish game that is quick to set up and seems to have some variability for the maps with various missions and 8 different characters to try. Most importantly it plays fast and has low rules-complexity and so my partner enjoys it
10 Likes
My partner and I just tried Scenario 1 of The Mandalorian Adventures today! So far itâs a neat little story-adjacent game, really looking forward to trying the next few missions at some point.
Moreso because we can alternate between TMA and Lands of Galzyr, which I like but is all story, and basically no combat. Itâs very good, but sometimes I just want to punch something, ya know?
7 Likes
This weekendâs game started with Fresh Fish courtesy of @lalunaverde. Really fascinating game still. Annoyingly spatial but the auto fill mechanics are ripe for abuse to pickle up your opponents and the competition in the auctions is all over the place with them being blind bidding. I managed a win by spending no money! Didnât think I would win as one player largely had prime real estate but it turns out he payed through the nose for it.
Next up we played Primal: The Awakening again.
We met again today and Iâd painted a mini over night so we played Primal again. This time no photo and we were up against a giant nine tailed fox with crystals growing from it. This one was pure damage output so it was a race to see who could do the other over first. We won with 3 KOâd party members and the mighty LLV on one hit point marauding up to the monster and slaying itâs mangy hide. So close to a loss suggests the difficulty was about right. Also nicely different to both the other monsters.
Next up another LLV treat as he had brought Stephensonâs Rocket. Well. This is a mind bending hellish game of possibilities that all really depend on what everyone else has done, could do and how your moves mess with their incentives and opportunities and theyâre moves do the same for you and everyone else. In many ways the end was skewed by a player having a strop about the game but it was fascinating. Thereâs so much that could go on I think I donât know how Iâd play next time still. Crumbs.
Finally we played some Pitchcar it was hysterical. Great game and great way to end the weekend of gaming. @lalunaverde crushed it, I did not.
8 Likes
Witness
Wilmotâs Warehouse - another fun one, this time with some difficult mandatory ideas. Still felt too easy for me, but the fun of the game comes from laughing with the other players, not the challenge.
Factory Fun - Factory Frustration! Ran out of money multiple times. My factory was like 70% pipes by the end.
Scout
6 Likes
This old dog still got it 
5 Likes
Had a barbecue on Monday for a friendâs belated birthday celebration. Sadly two people had to rush off early, so no traditional drunken game of Asteroyds.
Courtisans - Everyone enjoyed it, but itâs a lot more chaotic and harder to track with 5 people. I fell foul of needing reds to be negative, but getting a bunch of them dumped on me.
Ethnos - First play in ages but still remembered all the rules. We had dwarves, elves, giants, wingfolk, merfolk, and orcs. I did nicely with some big bands and got highest on the merflok track, but I only managed a close second place.
Also a very nice quick game, as we pushed to get it played in full before our friends had to leave (nicely countering their usual AP).
Forks - With 3 of us left, I broke this out for its first couple of plays. I think itâll take a few plays before I have any idea how to play it well (I got 0 and then 3 points). Nice and quick (and small), so I think it might be my new candidate for âchuck a game in my bag just in caseâ.
11 Likes
Games night! Settled into a 3 player group for
Power Grid Spain/Portugal map. Nothing to wrinkly here, came second. Good fun as always
The Bloody Inn. Interesting game about spending cards you want to keep to kill people and hide them under an annexe. Came last
Xylotar Iâm starting to see the game here. Came 2nd
Odin cute card shedder where the melds are numbers that just get bigger. Came last.
7 Likes
We spent the weekend in our van with my husbandâs kids, and it rained almost the whole time so we played some board games!
- Many games of Hive, in which my husband wiped the floor with all challengers, until his daughter beat him and declared herself the Hive Master
- Tindahan: this is hard to explain to people who donât know what trick taking is. I like this game a lot, but I think I was the only oneâŚ
- Tiletum, which only just fit on the table:
Very point salady. I like the dice drafting mechanism that makes you choose between getting lots of resources or lots of actions. Itâs a very smooth game considering how much is going on, but I think if I want beige trading in medieval Europe, Iâd rather play Hansa Teutonica. - Skoventyr: a co-op/solo game in which you have to save the spirit of the forest (embodied by a grumpy badger) from the devil. I found it a bit slow as a co-op, but enjoyed it as a quick solo game. The game itself mostly consists of trying to get rid of [bad thing] before [catastrophically bad thing] happens.
- Good Puppers: set collection game with cute dogs.
- High Society: I didnât lose, for a change!
- Eight minute empire: does not take eight minutes.
- Thatâs not a hat: very silly. Itâs amazing how quickly you lose track, even with three players.
12 Likes
A whole bunch of games in non particular order:
Decorum forgot how fun this was, played at 4 player and amazingly found a house we cuold live in both times. Revealing just how crazy your rules were to the rest of the group is just great
La Granja
Check out me sleeping my way to the top! Played with buildings, extra cards, broken roof tiles and donkey songs. Still great.
Watch
Only the second time Iâve got this to the table, but definitely one I want to play more. An hour long worker placement, simple to teach and still crunchy enough to feel like youâve had something nutritious.
7 Likes
Gardens of Babylon - decent old-school German game, but the left-right binding is so annoying it manage to ruin the whole game.
Kuhhandel - trading animals with The Estates style auction. I bought a copy immediately. Someone in the UK was selling the cheap German edition copy.
Hard to Get - a Codenames style game when youâre bored of Codenames and you want a twist. Otherwise, whatâs the point?
Daybreak - cool coop game. I donât need it in my life
Han - glad to get this area-control game back again. Defo my fave iteration from the Web of Power series.
Moon Adventure - as if Deep Sea Adventures couldnât get any more worse, they made a coop game of it.
Forks x2 - quick game so we played twice
The King is Dead - 3 players and remember why 3 players is my least fave player count - but will be eager to play TKID at any player count.
Ohanami - drafting card game and you score pts. Yay.
7 Likes
Ashes, trying out a couple of the Adventuring Party decks. Definitely a step up in complexity, but very interesting.
7 Likes
Scanning for sarcasmâŚ
5 Likes