
Good choices all.
Memoir '44 is one of the lighter war games I've ever seen (possible lighter games include Risk and Stratego, but that may be it). Once you know the game, you can blitz through in half an hour.
One comment I heard in Rabbit's suite was that it was a little too built around chance, in that you both have to get a card that allows you to move the unit you want, and then you have to roll dice for combat results as well.
I view almost all these games purely in terms of their building up to Puerto Rico, which is my favourite by a country mile and a game I find endlessly fascinating and entertaining. PR is more complicating than the other games you're discussing here, but still a lot easier from the games I found really hard to get to grips with, like Goa or Tigris & Euphrates. But it depends who you're playing with. When my kids are old enough, Catan, TRR and Carcasonne are going to get a lot more playtime.
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