Gaming Blogs

On Wednesday 17th April, 3 of us went to Ludorati after work for some gaming.  This time, we played a single game of Terraforming Mars.  This is an interesting"engine bulding" type of game, where you need to get cards into play, as well as placing several types of hex tiles, in order to earn "TR" (Terraforming Rating) TR is basically victory points, the aim being to earn the most.  The cards you can get into your hand, and then play, represent various terraforming-related "projects", there are 6 resources each player has to manage their production and spending of, and in addition the game end is set by 3 different measurements, all of which need to be met before the game can end. These are: Oxygen level, Temperature, and Ocean size (Oceans being represented by one of the hex types) There are various set ways of earning TR points, in addition to what you may be able to earn from various of the project cards.  Also, each player is assigned one of the terra...

On Sunday the 7th April, a few of us from work had arranged to meet up at the boardgames cafe Ludorati in Nottingham.  Unfortunately, in the end there were only 2 of us. We still got a game of Eldritch Horror first, it took us about an hour and a half including the setup time (which itself was about half an hour) It's a big game to setup - a number of different decks of cards, and lots of piles of various counters. I've written a full review which i intend to post up here soon.  Needless to say, we were doing well for much of the game, but then it started falling apart and in the end, even if we hand't lost one of the 2 main "mysteries" that we'd investigated, we would not quite have been able to win (we would have gained the 3rd and final necessary mystery *after* our Great old One, Azathoth, had awoken and therefore ended the game. the other game we played was Kingsburg, it *is* a competitive game to a degree, but it's more about trying to build up y...

No board or card gaming done this week.  I have been playing some more Borderlands on PC though, and also trying a few of the classic games on my Retro Pie setup, which is better than my first attempt at setting it up, thanks to a friend from work. I've tried a few arcade games, and one or two SNES games and Mega Drive games.  I've "discovered" an arcade game of The Simpsons that turns out to be an actually quite difficult side-scrolling beat-em-up! I've also had a quick go at one of the Aero Fighters games from the Neo Geo, and Cadillacs And Dinosaurs, also a side-scrolling beat-em-up arcade game (there seem to be a lot of those!)

Tuesday 26th March was the next meetup of the Bingham gaming group.  We ended up playing a 5-player game of Architects Of The West Kingdom. This is a very enjoyable, worker-placement game, and i managed to come second in victory points. On Thursday 28th March, I once again hosted a shorter evening's gaming.  This time, we played a 4-player game of Stone Age.  Again, this is a worked placement game, with an element of chance (all of the spaces that give you resources rely on dice rolling to determine how much of that resource you gain from all the workers you have on that space) and although I was behind for most of the game, victory-points-wise, when we completed the end-game scoring, I managed to jump ahead, beating the 2nd player by about 4 points.  I really enjoyed this game too.

Played 2x 3-player games of Century: Golem Edition on Monday 18th March.  For this session, I was introducing it to 2 newbies.  We chose it as it's simple game to learn, and quick to play.  Previously I had only played the normal edition, but in this case, Golem Edition is actually the exact same game, simply re-skinned. I made it to the Wednesday card gaming session in Grantham on Wednesday the 20th.  I've got to improve my Star Wars:Destiny custom deck, as it doesn't do well against decks with cards from the later sets (mine currently only has cards from the first 3 sets) and then on Thursday 21st, we managed to get in a 3-player game of Sushi Go Party! at lunch time.