Back to the boardgame café. With images;
cc-by-sa on
everything.
We started with a couple of games of
Small Star Empires;
I bought this at Essen but haven't yet got my own copy to the table. I
like this one: it's a space empire-building game with no space
battles, and the board gradually becomes blocked off in the manner of
Hey, That's My Fish!.
It's pleasantly quick to play, too. Definitely one I'll bring along as
a filler to other sessions.
Next, a return to
Pandemic: Contagion,
which still has badly-written rules but I think we did a better job of
understanding them than last time. It's still awfully random, though.
As is the very new
Shadow Games,
in which you're trying to gather favours to buy a star player for your
mediæval football team… all right, you're trying to get five cubes of
the same colour. It's a bluffing game broadly in the style of Coup,
but with more cards, and it would very much reward effective counting…
but what you actually have available to bluff with varies greatly
from turn to turn.
We finished off with a slight variation:
Timeline: British History
is very new (including the Brexit vote), and we haven't learned the
few obscure cards inside-out yet. One to play again.
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