My memorial day went pretty well. My wife and I flew out to the San Francisco Bay area for the weekend to visit my brother and his wife who is pregnant with twins. My brother and I got quite a few games in over the weekend. We played:
Dominion (2 two-player games, 1 four-player game) Race for the Galaxy (3 two-player games, 1 four-player game) Marvel Heroes (two players) Kingsburg (four players) Chicago Express (four players) Lost Cities the Board Game (just played one round) Call of Cthulu CCG (didn't get to finish the game) Roll Through the Ages (3 players) Domion was OK. I'm pretty bad at the deck building aspect of CCGs, but I thought it was entertaining the first two-player games we played. On the four-player game though it was like Speed Dominion. Everybody was slapping their cards down, taking their turns and shuffling their decks in a blink of an eye. At that rate it just felt like everyone was playing solitaire. There wasn't much interaction. I was surprised at how much I enjoyed Race for the Galaxy. It's really satisfying when you have a cohesive strategy going, even if you don't win the game. Marvel Heroes is always a classic. My might Avengers saved the day from the Brood. I guess the Spider-Man and Friends weren't up to the challenge. Kingsburg was alright too, although I was in last place the entire game, but managed to pull off a tie! ... for last place! I rolled terrible the entire game, and going for the middle row of buildings that culminates in the Wizard Guild wasn't that great of an idea. I'd play again, but not something I'm looking to buy. Chicago Express was fun. I thought it was going to be a light train game but its really an auction game. I ended up paying way too much for one share of stock and came in second. I got sucked into the bidding and couldn't let it go. Oh well. Lost Cities the Board Game is MUCH easier to tally the score than the card game. My brother had a Call of Cthulu 2-player starter pack so we checked that out. Every once in a while I get the urge to play a CCG, but I hate the random packs, so I've been interested in the LCG core set. The game is OK. I'm not crazy about it (pun intended) but I could pick up the LCG if I really got the CCG bug. Roll Through the Ages was fun. I forgot to ask the wife how much she enjoyed it. On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 10:08 AM, NTengine <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hey guys, > I'm just curious how all the Memorial Day gaming turned out. I didn't > manage to pull any board games out yesterday, but I was invited to a 4- > player session of Left 4 Dead, and extremely violent, ultra-gory > zombie apocalypse first-person shooter that my wife would never > approve of. So naturally I joined in and had a blast. > > I saw that Bob won a bunch of games--congrats to him and all those who > helped him--but how did everyone else's holiday go? If you'd like to > report on it, I'd love to hear about it. > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "utah county boardgamers association" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/ucboardgamers?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
