My Uncle has an engagement party that weekend.
Alien Frontiers: what really hosed me that game was the combo of losing four lunar resources to you that one turn followed by BK locking down the lunar resource area. I was only ever able to pick up one at a time from then on and I just couldn't afford to keep exchanging at the global market AND powering all my toys. Fun game though - ended up texting a friend of mine afterward about it as I think he'd really enjoy it.
So what's up next on our gaming bucket list?
Amusingly, I do. Sort of. The story: a friend of mine bought El Grande as his first game purchase probably 5 or 6 years ago. He/we have still not played it to date but we keep talking about it breaking it out "one day". Sounds like fate.
I'd also like to try Chaos in the Old World at some point, but we need four or five for that one for sure.
Okay, now you're not even trying to make up real excuses!
A man only gets married for the second time, once.
Another Cosmic Encounter expansion coming. Good times. Image of one of the new aliens:
I can think of a number of our own games I could have really used that.
Good games yesterday - was fun sneaking in an impromptu session even though I didn't end up getting into bed until 5 am the night before.
Been thinking about Alien Frontiers a bit and decided to do some reading on it on BGG. Found a review by some dude who pretty much mirrors my views that gameplay is super cool but much of what makes it cool (specifically the ability to place AND collect rewards concurrently) creates a LOT of downtime. I'm not an AP type at all so when Chris told me of my turns took ten minutes I was pretty horrified.
The kingmaker/bash the leader elements feel pretty strong with this one too. This is definitely NOT the game in which you want to seem like you're winning.
Nevertheless, I didn't realize after our first play how big of a "dick" game this is but did it jump into sharp focus last game. That was some tense sh*t, fueled by a willingness to burn tech cards for their secondary effects which really shakes up the gameboard. I wanna play again soon.
You know, I kind of like that shop because they don't seem very professional. It gives it a bit of charm, I suppose. Of course, I say this because we have never been on the shop owner's bad side, but still...
Pencil me in. I have a BBQ to get to on Friday, and another on Saturday(this one in Howell). At some point in the weekend, groceries must be bought and clothes washed.
But what about the uncle's engagement party?
That is the Saturday one.
Things have been kinda weird there since they opened the additional room. Not sure if people have been trying to take advantage of them or the owner just stopped taking her daily Pamprin altogether but she has gotten really witchy in general lately.
Anyway, I'm in like Flynn.
Guildhall - Instead of playing the game shop's Quarriors, I went and bought a $30 game! Guildhall is a fun game of set building, hand management, and a bunch of trading and other manipulation powers that let you steal your opponents' cards and generally mess them over quite hard. We had quite a nailbiter with Cpt pulling it out by two points over me after the game was given second life when the one vp card he needed to go out on the nose was snatched by Jon. You can be really diabolical and pile on people in this game if you want to
It looks like there is a stand alone, integrate-able expansion I'm going to have to pick up...
That expansion does look pretty cool, even if it doesn't have the happiest pig ever on the cover.
Yeah, I think between the two games I enjoyed Tzolkien a lot more. There was a lot to take in and I could see it becoming much more tense and competitive when you add in more than two players. In the game that we played, I think it was more of just anticipating where you are going to be three or four turns later and how that will affect things like resources, food, etc.
I didn't quite get the draw of snagging tech, since it seems that resources were kind of hard to come by that you'd basically be spending most of your game collecting the resources to move up in tech. However if you go that route, then you're probably forgetting about the precious corn you need to feed your workers....
...Bah, I'll stop rambling. Needless to say I enjoyed both games, but Tzolkien definitely was the better of the two.
Is anyone coming on the 28th?
Maybe? I just took my summer final.
i am definitely available next weekend.
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