Back to the Masonic Hall for a warm and soggy weekend.
Not helped by a bit of a bastard drive; the M40 was shut between
4 and 5 (with only tiny local roads as a backup), and then Birmingham
and the northern M6 were both slow going too.
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But the bar was open. (They didn't have a list of bottles, so this
picture got shared around a lot.)
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First game was Sentinels of the Multiverse: Definitive
Edition,
this month's challenge (Alpha, Tempest and Haka vs the Fey-Court in
Magmaria). Three damage-heavy heroes going up against targets they
really don't want to damage. We even went to some trouble to keep some
of the minions alive…
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On to
A Touch of Evil: The Supernatural
Game,
which fell apart quite badly. I haven't won this since I got hold of
The Coast expansion, though I don't think anything from there really
affected us; we just couldn't kick our heroes into gear to start
killing off Walking Dead and gaining Investigation.
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Tried out Magic
Maze on a new
victim. Number of people I know who like this game: still 2. Including
me.
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Automobiles
next, and clearly I am a good teacher because I had taught both the
other players and they both beat me.
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Back to the hotel past Stockport town hall.
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In the morning, Ark
Nova, a game I
don't love but do quite like. This is certainly helped by my now
having won two of the three games I've played. (My secret is a very
simple one: start at the 5-level of the action queue, and if I can do
anything with that, do it. Only if I can't do I go down to the 4,
etc.)
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Masons. The Da Vinci Code was aimed at these guys.
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After an RPG session, we got back together with the hardcore
boardgamers for
Citadels (in
which I came the traditional last)
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and Flash Point: Fire
Rescue,
where we did rather better (thanks to Paramedic and Rescue Dog, we
didn't lose a single victim).
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Next morning begam with
DroPolter,
sorry, I apparently have the hands for this…
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and Imperium:
Horizons
(Arthurians, Egyptians, Romans, Celts). The Romans had to retire
early, and I as the Arthurians made my usual error of not actually
checking what would give me points, and the Celts grew fat on Egyptian
cattle (but not on Egyptian points).
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Fewer longer games this time than in some years, but great fun, and we
didn't even get to Xia…