Gaming Blogs

Despite the level of busy I have been in the run up to Christmas, I managed to have an afternoon of boardgaming on Friday the 21st.  We first played a 3-player game of Viticulture, a game where you run a vineyard.  I won by 1 point, but the other 2 had never played it before so it doesn't really count as a victory! After that, with the larger group who was there (from my local gaming group) we played a 6-player game of the hidden identity game called Avalon.  Myself along with the other evil player managed the win - sabotaging 3 of the 5 quests (although it went down to the 5th and final quest) We were helped along by the good player who was Merlin, disguising themselves so well that the other players on the side of good thought the Merlin player was one of us evil characters! I've also managed to get in some PC gaming - a bit of Just Cause 2, some time on Borderlands, and a bit further into Geneforge.

Oh well, another week skipped! I've had numerous non-gaming things going on during December. However on the 15th, i did manage to make it to the Grantham Friendly Gamers' last gathering of the year! This one was at Ropsley Village Hall, actually a short way out of Grantham. I took part in a small-scale (5 players total) Draft tournament of Star Wars: Destiny.  THis wasn't my morning - I lost both games of it I played! Although the second one was close (I was only 2 damage away from killing my opponent's last character) I also had time to fit in a game of Sagrada.  Well this really wasn't my day, I thought I did OK at it but fell to last place out of 6 players! I have also managed to do a little bit of PC gaming - a short run on Borderlands, and also on Geneforge 1

Hmm...somehow I've managed to skip a week! Not to mention this post being nearly a week late...anyway, didn't get much play during this dated week BUT I did host a 5-player boardgaming day on the 1st.  We managed a game of Lancaster (second time my copy has been played) which i managed to win, but it was close (points were, in reverse order, 53, 48, 44, 38, and 36) - It's basically a worker placement game with some extra mechanics added to make it interesting, and we got a game of Cosmic Encounter (which I was most definitely last at) - I'm not sure what to think of this one, there is a large selection of the alien cards to draw from (everyone gets one at the beginning, and each has a special ability) but in the game we played, there were 2 that seemed waaay more powerful than the others, making it feel unbalanced. Finally, we got in 2 games of Flamme Rouge.  Flamme Rouge is a card-based boardgame about cycle racing, it's really good fun and quite quick to learn an