I managed to get a fair bit of gaming in this month and did fairly well over all.
Started out by going and playing games at a friend’s house on May 4th.
First played a quick game of Faraway (which I lost). It has an interesting mechanic. You play cards that earn points based on the other cards you play, but you score them in reverse order of play. That is, you start by playing a card which will only score points if you play other cards to fulfill the conditions. You’re acquiring a new card each round, so rather than building on what you’ve already done, your kind of playing backwards. You’ve done something and now you need to acquire and play the cards that make it useful.
After Faraway, we played a long game of Star Wars: Outer Rim in honor of “May the 4th be with you.” Choose a character and then explore the Outer Rim on your way to fame and fortune. Take on jobs as a bounty hunter, smuggler, or mercenary. Upgrade your ship. Bring on new crew. I enjoyed the game–probably better the second time around once you have some idea of how things play out and how to run your character. I lost.
After finally wrapping up Outer Rim, we played a much-shorter game of The Guild of Merchant Explorers. Though I was the only one to have played previously, I did not win this game either.
As a family we finally got around to playing the second half of the Escape the Crate Sled Race mission (we played the first half back in March). We were thoroughly victorious and brought the diphtheria antitoxin to Nome.
Jess and I played Wyrmspan on Mother’s Day. I won that one. And we played another time with friends and I won that one too.
At a board-game meetup I played Concordia. It’s a game about establishing trade routes in ancient Rome. Decent theme, competitive but not particularly adversarial. I lost.
Jess and I continued our adventure in Kinfire Chronicles: Night’s Fall by completing Quest 5. It came down to the skin of our teeth, but we survived. We got to play using the new organizer I designed and printed, but we’ll get to that in another post.
Jess and I played a game of Everdell (the base game) with friends. I won that. Which I was surprised by because I started out with a pretty lousy hand and went in to autumn with a single green production card in my town.
And, finally, I played a game of The Wolves at a board-game meetup which I also managed to win. It’s effectively a wolf-life simulator game. You have a wolf pack and need to expand your pack, hunt food, and defend your territory from other packs to earn the most points.
