notes from the cape foo

I originally thought I'd be here only for Saturday, but I ended up staying through Sunday; time flies and all.

Currently playing Axis & Allies for the first time. Will probably continue to do so through the early evening. I'm the UK. Thankfully, temvald is on my side, as the USSR. JG is the USA, though JH, as Japan, just managed to take Hawaii on her first turn, prompting our representative of the Greatest Generation to say "Forget this war; I'm gonna sit here and do nuthin'". Fortunately MS is consistently blowing all his German die rolls so far, so it balances out. I guess.

A lot of attention that would have gone into epic board games has instead gone into playing or watching Katamary Damacy and Burnout 3 that I brought, even though neither is really a party game. I dunno whether this is good or bad.

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That Axis & Allies thing was a bust; we declared Uncondtional Surrender of Everybody after the game was threatening to run into its ninth hour, though I think Japan (jhango) was careering towards a unilateral economic victory by that time. While I appreciated seeing firsthand what was clearly part of the inspiration for the strategic computer games I love so much today, I doubt I'll ever want to play it again, much less buy a copy myself (which I was thinking I'd do until it became clear that my between-turns wait averaged about 45 minutes).

The games I most enjoyed were my perennial favorites RAMbots and Schotten Totten, which I played twice each, and maybe invested two hours in total. In retrospect I probably could have maximized my fun efficiency by bugging out late Saturday night, but I didn't want to do the long drive at that point, and zzzzz. But it was a very fun thing anyway; many thanks to J&C for letting us come trash their beautiful (really) new house!