The Leighton Buzzard Boardgames group put on their second convention,
and having seen a flyer for it at the last Tringcon I went. With
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everything.
I took my Portable Games Library, two crates of games in a
camping trolley, and set up
Dice Hospital,
which immediately attracted players. I even had one really good
scoring turn, and one fairly decent one. (Still came joint last,
though.)
The event took place in a church hall (complete with notices for Baby
Barnacles and Getting Deeper into God), which we just about half
filled; it was never crowded, and even stayed tolerably cool.
I went on to a very intense game of
Flash Point: Fire Rescue
(sufficiently intense that I didn't take any pictures) – on the 2-door
board from the basic set, and we lost thoroughly.
Then we played
Deep Sea Adventure,
a push-your-luck (well, push-everyone's-luck) game I hadn't tried
before. Tricky to get the hang of, but I got a workable second place.
Lunch was provided. (Chilli and other things.)
Next, several people wanted to play
Flamme Rouge,
so I ended up running two games of that.
Finally,
Puerto Rico,
a classic at which I expected to do very badly, and did. This type of
game still suffers from an abstraction gap, for me; I do better with a
game that's explicitly abstract, rather than claiming to have a theme
and then not reflecting that theme in any meaningful way.
Also home-made cake!
They're a very pleasant bunch, and though they're about an hour's
drive away I may turn up for the occasional weekend meeting.
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