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Played 2 player LOTR Revised Core and it was so much easier than 1 player.

More fun too.

Still havent used the gold border "hard" cards so I expect it will get a lot more difficult.

Sneak Attack + Gandalf is so nice.

I bought Mage Knight Unlimited but it wasnt meant to arrive for a few weeks. Amazon were too efficient. I will wait before playing. My brain will hurt from the complexity I bet.

Maybe I will save it for Chritstmas holidays.
 
Games day with gaming group today. Firstly The Thing. One of our friends played MacReady (Kurt Russell’s character) and was willing and able to use her flamethrower and was one of the two humans left at the end, but she and the other remaining human (of six players) fell just short of escaping the base. Wife started as the Alien (never trust her in hidden role games!) and I got turned just before the end, so on the winning team. Vale humanity. Really need the 6+ I think the get the best of the game, all enjoyed it , although those of us fans the most(first run as waiting for the chance for enough players).

Then a game of King of Toyko, before Flamecraft.

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Ive played King of Tokyo a couple of times and have no idea how it plays. The problem with playing against people who have played it a lot who only quickly explain it.
King of Toyko is straight forward. Win by first to 20 points or last monster standing. If in Toyko your attacks hit everyone outside and you get points for moving into Toyko and starting your turn there. Downside is you can’t heal whilst there. Outside Toyko your attacks damage the monster in it. Energy cubes let you buy cards for permanent and one of benefits. Roll three 1’s get 1 point, three 2’s get 2 points and three 3’s get 3 points (add 1 point for each extra if 4+). That’s about it unless adding Power ups or other expansions.
 
Picked up Carcassonne and Cascadia. Really enjoy them.
Now to start collecting Carcassonne expansions and see at what count your brain breaks when combining. Now up to 8, yet somehow with all that, when played all 8 for first time wife and I managed to tie on 303 apiece. Though you need a good sized table once you get beyond 3 or 4 at once. :oops:
 
Now to start collecting Carcassonne expansions and see at what count your brain breaks when combining. Now up to 8, yet somehow with all that, when played all 8 for first time wife and I managed to tie on 303 apiece. Though you need a good sized table once you get beyond 3 or 4 at once. :oops:

Already looked at some. Which expansions do you recommend?
 
Already looked at some. Which expansions do you recommend?
If playing with your kids then Princess & Dragon, just because it lets you mess with other players, which kids always like. If just with friends, then I'd go with these as the first three to get:
Traders & Builders
Abbey & Mayor
Inns & Cathedrals

Traders & Builders first, as the Builder encourages you to keep adding to an existing city, as you get an extra turn if you add to the city your builder was in. Played off against the traders part, is goods can be added to cities and whoever finishes it gets the goods, which doesn't have to be the person controlling the city. Makes for some good tension.
 
Had some friends over and we played Western Legends. Everyone loved it and we will play again.

Then we played Lords of Waterdeep. Another fun game.

Then our numbers thinned out and we played Munchkin Warhammer. Basically like all Munchkin games I think. Quick and easy game.

Then we were down to 2 and we played a few games of Biblios.
 

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Friday night second campaign of Sleeping Gods started. The world is such you need multiple play throughs to explore it. You get extra starting stuff for each new campaign, based on all the previously unlocked achievements from earlier campaigns. It will take a few before have enough idea of where totems are and starting gear to complete with a woken the gods ending.

Then games day Sunday. Highlight was getting Wonderland Wars to the table with 5 players.

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Ive now played 7th Continent 3 times on "easy" and lost all 3.

1st time I thought I did well. Explored dozens of tiles.
2nd game couldnt get anywhere.
3rd game I kept thinking I must be close to the end because I must have done 40 or 50 tiles but kept going further and further and further but then again ran out of cards and got a Skull.

Love the game. Thoroughly frustrating. Will be very happy if I can ever win.
 
Ive now played 7th Continent 3 times on "easy" and lost all 3.

1st time I thought I did well. Explored dozens of tiles.
2nd game couldnt get anywhere.
3rd game I kept thinking I must be close to the end because I must have done 40 or 50 tiles but kept going further and further and further but then again ran out of cards and got a Skull.

Love the game. Thoroughly frustrating. Will be very happy if I can ever win.
Is it any good as a 2 player?
 
Not tried 2 player yet. Will on the weekend though.

I suspect its a very different game but BGG rates it as best for 1 or 2 players.

Im hoping my 4th play I can work out the path.

And I just read about food / hunting on BGG and I did it wrong and could have had 2 more food (same food stacks so doesnt take up extra gear slots).

I probably could have won with those 12 extra cards. Sigh.

I am really enjoying it tho. Even tho it is a crazy challenge.
 
Games day. First Lost Ruins of Arnak at 4 players. Didn’t use the expansion as first game for one of the others. Then Rankster - a small game one of the friends picked up at Essen (damn jealous we haven’t gotten there yet). You get three random characters (real current or historical people or fictional ones) and a question. The question asker firstly ranks their 1 to 3 (you have tokens), then the remaining people do the same as a group. The asker turns over their tokens and sees if match. The aim is to get as many matches as possible with everyone having a turn asking twice. Then Wavelength and Just One.

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Finished our 3rd go at Sleeping Gods, exploring more of the world. Still more unexplored than explored so more campaigns to do yet (though not just yet).

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Then browsing the board game cafe (aka our gaming shelves), we decided on a game of Pandemic. We hadn’t played it in ages, since before the three Pandemic Legacy games.

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Then first games of Cascadia, a win each.

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First go of My Fathers Work. Played over a couple of nights. Took about 3 hours (I think subsequent games would cut 30 off that), but there’s not too much dead time, so it didn’t feel that long. The app is mainly for between rounds, though with a few spots you interact, but doesn’t get it the way. It is a bit strange how some, but not all of the story parts are narrated, like they ran out of budget for the voice actor.

Minor quibbles though, the game was fun, the quality of everything top notch (at the price paid they should be!). Would recommend it.


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