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Board game thing
Oct. 20th, 2008 12:09 pmLast night's random game thing was a nice success. Lots more people showed up than we expected (not complaining)! We may start doing this more often...
Finally played Goa, with![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
classicaljunkie teaching it to three of us newbies. I loved it, feeling completely engaged for the entire two hours or so that we played. Managed to squeak out a win (pulling a tiebreaker over ahkond), which was extra-nice for me since it kills my idea that I can never do well at auction games. I wanna play this game again soon.
dougo stuck around for a bit at the end, and the three of us played Figaro (which we concluded doesn't work well with three) and then a fascinatingly mechanical game of Race for the Galaxy. It was the first time I had the Blue strategy fall into my lap, and it was a little ridiculous. My first few moves had me lay out a string of blue-producing planets and then the Consumer Markets development, which gives you lots of bonuses for having blue producers. The last six rounds had me alternating between my Produce and Consume(2xVP) action cards, hoovering up ten VPs each time, and shutting down the game quickly. There was no reason to do much of anything else! It was the first time a pattern like that emerged from this game for me.
Finally played Goa, with
classicaljunkie teaching it to three of us newbies. I loved it, feeling completely engaged for the entire two hours or so that we played. Managed to squeak out a win (pulling a tiebreaker over ahkond), which was extra-nice for me since it kills my idea that I can never do well at auction games. I wanna play this game again soon.dougo stuck around for a bit at the end, and the three of us played Figaro (which we concluded doesn't work well with three) and then a fascinatingly mechanical game of Race for the Galaxy. It was the first time I had the Blue strategy fall into my lap, and it was a little ridiculous. My first few moves had me lay out a string of blue-producing planets and then the Consumer Markets development, which gives you lots of bonuses for having blue producers. The last six rounds had me alternating between my Produce and Consume(2xVP) action cards, hoovering up ten VPs each time, and shutting down the game quickly. There was no reason to do much of anything else! It was the first time a pattern like that emerged from this game for me.
