Ollie managed to complete his route home, he collected the required cards and was allowed to return to Norwich to join us in gaming fun. More seriously Chris survived a harrowing car crash to walk away with only minor injuries so he also came down and celebrated his personal survival by wiping out the human race in Pandemic. But the everning was littered with cum?? stories of dubious content and factoids about nature. Aparently the sperm of a fruit fly is longer than the fruit fly itself? according to our resident scientist. On with the gaming, a second attempt at stone age for Luke, Ollie and Jack (who we won’t see till September…keep reading the blog Jack) and a first play for Jimmy. The game went as well as our first play, I absolutely love it and hope others will keep wanting to play it with me. I love the middle weight nature of the game where every player can get something of value every round, the hidden VPs in cards are a nice reveal at the end and there isn’t that much for a disadvantage for inexperienced stone agers.
On the other table was a second victorious game of pandemic and then some head shrinking Figi fun.
Next for us, Jimmy got out LaStrada yet another Martin Wallace game, but this time a lot more light weight. After the game I remembered how much I liked this, it plays fast and there are some tough choices. The problem is that its virtually broken. Whoever plays first should really win, but player two might have a chance, play last and you have no chance. Which is why we decided to play it as a partnership game. This ‘crazy’ experiment worked reasonably well. Ollie went first and was partnered randomly with Luke who then went third, Jack went second and played with Jimmy who was fourth. I think next time we should try partners being 1 with 4 and 2 with 3, maybe….. It’s difficult to know in one play, but I would like to try it with Bondy and see what he thinks, rotate the partners maybe as well who knows, it plays fast as well which is a relief when you compare it to the other games we like.
2 comments:
Norwich Board Gamers hey, well I thought we played some games nobody knew, but looking at some of your posts, you play some games I have not heard of. I play regular games with 5 others gamers. Some of our normal games are, PowerGrid, Puerto Rico, Kremlin, Acquire, Joan of Ark, Alhambra and Junk. Is the Tuesday night games open to new comers? Scot?
Hi Scot, We play every Tuesday at the ribs of beef pub, starting at 7:30pm New comers are always welcome, bring down a couple of games and be prepared to play something new, some games you might hate others you will love, sometimes there are 3 of us sometimes 12 and all numbers inbetween. Hope we see you soon.
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