The Oxford Meeples had another
quarterly games day, and I had a great time again. (Yes, I've missed a few.)
First game of the day was Tinderblox: Storm
Edition which adds "rain"
cubes. Is it the best Tinderblox? Probably not. Do I need it? No. Do I
enjoy it? Certainly.
Then on to
Terraforming Mars: The Dice
Game with the new
"Missions" expansion, picked up at Essen. This is quite a
low-complexity expansion and I think I'll probably include it in
future games, even with new players; it provides several more options
especially when the right cards aren't coming up.
Another Essen purchase, Map
Masters (in cooperative
mode). The impression we got was that it wasn't offiensive, but there
was a lot of fiddly setup for a fairly trivial mission. Still, this
was the recomended Mission 1; I think I'll try it solo, and with a
more advancd mission. (And in competitive mode.)
More Essen plunder, the trick-taker
Diamonds, which seems to
make sense to me in a way that most trick-takers don't. I think it may
be because playing out of suit, if one has no cards of the led suit
for a trick, can be actively helpful.
Finally
Flip 7, new to several
of the players, which did its job very well: enough randomness that
one can blame the bad stuff on the cards, even though a better player
will generally beat a worse one. (And five out of the seven players
had the top score in at least one of the ten rounds.)
