Back to the boardgame café. With
images; cc-by-sa on
everything.
Various games that we've been meaning to play have now been sent
to the archives, and we weren't sufficiently organised to ask for them
in advance. We started with
Space Base,
which I think could reasonably be described as a second generation of
Machi Koro; it was agreeable, but none of us felt inspired to buy a
copy, or for that matter to play it again – even the winner.
On to
Heaven & Ale,
a rather heavier Eurogame than our usual fare; you're trying to get
various markers up the track, but your ways of doing so are very
restricted, with a Tokaido-style track for choosing options. It was
enjoyable and didn't overstay its welcome, and I can see how by
playing repeatedly one could build up a strategy; and it's a lovely
physical product, too; but the theme and mechanics are very much
disconnected, and I didn't enjoy the first game enough to want to give
it those repeated plays.
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