Back to the boardgame café. With
images; cc-by-sa on
everything.
We began the evening with
NMBR 9 ("best
game that Roger should have bought at Essen last year, but didn't"). I
misremembered one rule for the first game, but it was quick enough
that we could just play again. I fell apart completely in the endgame
but still had a good time.
Flamme Rouge
next, another game that's on my "buy when I see it at a good price"
list. Though I still think it's a bit of a shame that the curves don't
signify anything in game terms. (And I won, the first time I've
managed this.)
Finally,
Eminent Domain,
another "space 4X but without a map or actually attacking your
opponents" game – very like Race for the Galaxy or Tiny Epic
Galaxies, it's a deck/tableau-builder, in which you rush to control
planets (either by putting colony cards on them or by attacking them
with your mighty space armada), and get benefits from them. The main
player interaction, similarly to those other two games, is that you
can "follow" someone else's action choice if you have suitable cards.
Mechanically it's a deck-builder, but without much in the way of
"junk" cards to be removed. I had a good time, and I'll probably play
it again if the opportunity comes up, but I certainly shan't buy it
unless I hear amazing things about the expansions.
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