Gaming Blogs

On the 12-March, I hosted an evening, 4-player game of Small World.  The scoring ended up being quite close (well, the 3 of us who didn't win scored close to each other anyway!) Saturday the 16th was the monthly Grantham Friendly Gamers' all-day gaming session.  I managed to get in games of Canal Mania, Century: Spice Road, and Quacks of Quedlinburg. All were enjoyable although I did terribly at each =+) I'm also still grinding for XP a bit in Borderlands, but I do now have several good weapons (one combat rifle, one shotgun, and one sniper rifle are what I have equipped)

On Friday the 8th march, we had a 3-player game of Tiny Epic Kingdoms at lunch time.  This was my first play of this particular Tiny Epic title.  Although I enjoyed it, i felt that the (randomly-determined) starting region picked for myself put me at a disadvantage, especially with it only being a 3-player game, as it had 1 less resource producing area on it than the other 2 chosen starting region. I've also been playing some Borderlands and a bit of Terraria on PC.

On the 2nd, I had a day of gaming with 2 friends, hosted by me. First up was Pandemic: Fall Of Rome.  This is the 2nd variant, other than the original game, that I've played, and again it is different enough from the "vanilla" Pandemic to be worth a go.  Similarly to the original, some of the possible player characters have more useful special abilities than others.  We lost the first play quite badly, but fared significantly better the 2nd time around, and actually managed to beat the game! Then we played Voyages Of Marco Polo, a dice-placement game.  Again, it features player characters that each have a special ability.  The one I got (randomly assigned) sounded like it would be the strongest special ability, but in the end, I had the lowest score.  I do not think I made the best use of my character's special ability though, and would really like to have another play using the same character.  We'll see... Lastly we played Puerto Rico, it's kind of a worke

No board or card games played this week, but some more PC gaming - More of Just Cause 2 (exploring to find new locations), some Borderlands, a bit of Terraria and of Gene Forge 1 (an isometric RPG by indie publisher Spiderweb Software)

On the afternoon of Friday 15th-Feb, I went to the Ludorati boardgames cafe in Nottingham with 2 friends from work - we played 2 games of plain Endeavor, a worker placement/area control game.  I came second in the first game and won the second game. On Saturday 16th, was the next of the monthly meetings of the Grantham Friendly Gamers club, where I took part in a 5-player game of Agricola complete with the Farmers of The Moor expansion.  I think this is the 3rd time I've played Agricola, and I did improve once more on both my previous attempts, having both types of crop, every type of livestock, maximum amount of fenced area, upgraded rooms in my house, and 1 extra family member. Other than that I also played some Just Cause 2 on PC during the week.