boardgames

I went to a gaming convention so I played quite a few games:

• Bad Company - light, fast, and fun
• Concordia - awesome game
• Amerigo
• At the Gates of Loyang
• Union Stockyards
• Port Royal
• Trekking Through History - excellent game
• Nova Roma - excellent Euro, releasing in one month, was taught by the designer
• Marrakesh
• Gugong - wasn't a big fan

We are in the middle of moving to a new city but we managed to still squeeze in some sessions with our current group.

We played Terraforming Mars for one last time as a 4 player game. Its a bit cursed because I lost once again with a single point. We almost managed to cover the entire planet with structures. Very fun session.

We also played a 2 player session of Ark Nova - I lost that game but honestly this was good because otherwise my gf just hates the game and we would play it less.

We also played another 4 player of Burgundy which was our final game with that group.

Now looking for new players in Barcelona;)

Played two on Saturday:

Beyond the Sun - I enjoyed this one. The game turned into a run away for one of the players who had pushed hard down the science track. I learned some lessons too latr, but that's to be expected in the first play.

Dead Men Tell No Tales - I really liked this one, but I'm a sucker for cooperative games where you're just trying to stem the tide of misery. It was the first play for everyone, so strategies started to unfold but a little too late, we lost with two treasures right beside each other left to collect.

Sushi Go, Decrypto, and Dune Imperium.

My group has basically fully converted from Codenames to Decrypto now that everybody’s familiar with the rules. They’re terrible at arriving on time, so it’s great that the game supports a ton of people, and they can join halfway through without much hassle.

Sushi Go is still great - at this point I should probably try the Party version since I’ve played it so much. Liked Coup Rebellion G54 less than the original, and that game has the same concept of “add more cards to a good base game”, so I’m hesitating…

Dune Imperium is as good as ever.

Got to play Cthulhu Wars with 3 friends, one was brand new and two had played two years ago so pretty fresh all around. I had a lead as Daemon Sultan, but made a greedy ritual play and got punished hard. New player playing black goat had the win in the bag with a ritual and 6 gates, but decided not to ritual and play with her food. She ended the next (final) round with zero gates and Cthulhu took the win instead lol

Several games of Ark Nova, we both like it a lot. In the last game we put the reference sheet on a music stand to save some table space.

We also played a few games of Mille Fiori with a 2 player variant from BGG, it makes the 2p game feel a lot more competitive. I've been thinking about other types of drafts that could be applied to the game.

And finally we played a game of Lorenzo Il Magnifico, an older favorite. We played a base game in preparation to try to expansions for the first time.

Ooh, this week I was really looking forward to this thread because we have been playing Sail! I was having regretsies for backing it since it looked really clunky and fiddly but all that fell away as soon as I understood the game. It's just so good, tight, perfect amount of tension throughout. I was afraid it wasn't gonna feel like trick-taking but it absolutely does. I have too many 2p coops but this is my new fave.