Gaming Blogs

I played my first ever game of Root on Tuesday the 28th We played a full 4-player game, with the owner teaching us and taking us through the actions available to each faction. We drew factions randomly at the beginning, and I got the Raccoon, who is different to the others in that it is just a single character. I did enjoy it, though I didn't score much, and again this is one I'd like to play again. On Wednesday i made it to the weekly Star Wars: Destiny session in Grantham - I actually don't always log this in BGG - and had a go with one of the current set's starter decks. Now, form the 31st-May to the 02-June was the UKGE in the Birmingham NEC, this year I attended the Friday and the Saturday, with a gaming friend from work. On the Friday, we got to play Warhammer Quest: Blackstone Fortress (which I actually have but had not yet played) and this was great, i really like it.  We also played a bit of the X-Wing Miniatures game, as I had not played before and it wa...

No boardgames played this week! I've been playing a bit of Terraria and Borderlands on PC though...

Saturday the 18th was the May meetup of the Grantham Friendly Gamers. Most of my time there on this meetup was playing a 5-player game of Rising Sun.  I didn't do well -after the end-game scoring was done, I was 2nd-to-last.  It's a game I would like to try playing again.  As the guy who taught it mentioned at the end, we didn't really latch on to the intended way to play it, which is supposed to involve deal-making/bartering (of course with some back stabbing!) It has some nice minis too! OI also got a short game of Winners Circle.  This is a horse-racing betting game.  I managed to win this 2-race game (we didn't have time for the final 3rd race!)

Again, only the one boardgame played this week - a 3-player game of Quacks Of Quedlinburg. This was, again, on a Friday lunchtime at work.  Unfortunately one of us had to leave for a meeting before we had quite reached the end.  We all enjoyed it though.

3 of us got in a lunchtime play of Azul at work on the lunchtime of the 3rd.  I managed to gain a decisive victory! Going for diagonals was my main strategy, even though I wasn't 100% clear how the end game scoring works for completed diagonals...and we were playing the "basic" version, where everyone has the same patterned board to try and fill Also been doing a bit of PC gaming...

Just the one board game played this week, and it was a real doozy - A Feast For Odin! this took us a good 4 hours to finish, although 3 of the 4 of us were completely new to it...and it's one I'm likely to buy at some point.