Back to the boardgame café on a
mildly snowy night. With images;
cc-by-sa on
everything.
First game of the evening was
Colony, which
looks a lot like a deckbuilder (with the standard box layout to let
you pick out specific cards) but actually felt in play rather more
like
Alien Frontiers:
a minimally themed game where you have to roll dice and decide how to
use them to buy various different benefits. I mis-counted the number
of players (!) and thought I had longer to catch up than I did. I
didn't particularly enjoy it, but I felt the same way about Alien
Frontiers on first play, and now I own a copy.
We went on to
Isle of Skye,
since it's one of the two games I recommend as "like Carcassone, only
actually pleasant to play". (The other is
Cacao.) We used
the standard first-game scoring tiles, and I fell behind badly at
first, but used the bonus cash to catch up and take a late win. I
actually feel I'm getting better at this game (I only play it once or
twice a year).
And the traditional
Timeline: British History
to finish, where I messed up badly on the first game and another
player messed up slightly less badly on the second. I think it's still
mostly broken for us though.
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