On Boxing Day because it's a tradition now (i.e. we did it last year),
a bunch of us without family commitments got together for boardgames.
Like the last session here, we stayed together as one big group.
We began the day with a couple of warm-up rounds of
Tsuro, which was
surprisingly tactical given that it was the eight-player version.
Went on to
Captain Sonar,
three new players, still in the turn-based mode. Nobody else wanted to
take over the captain's job from me; we won the first game, and got a
mutual kill on the second (finally got to try out the Bravo map).
Over lunch there was
Guillotine and
smoking. (Yay! More reprobates!)
Then we dove into
Steampunk Rally,
yet another of those games that I would like to play more often than I
get a chance to.
The pack soon started to separate, but what was Tesla up to sitting at
the starting line?
As von Zeppelin I had a neat, streamlined machine.
Tesla stayed back for several turns to pick and choose parts and build
a huge machine, then moved twelve spaces in one turn, losing about
half the machine to do so but taking a creditable place in the middle
of the pack.
… and finishing second overall, after Einstein. Lovelace third; von
Zeppelin over the line; Bell, Carver, Ayrton and Edison also ran.
I've never done this eight-player before, and we found ourselves
running short of dice at times (especially during the Tesla
Monstrosity Incident). Took a while, and it was tricky for the new
players to pick up, but I think all enjoyed it in the end.
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