Gaming Session

We began game night with some 8 player flavor and broke out Incan Gold. Its your basic push your luck gem collector. My daughter Sarah then taught a group Snorta! while 5 of the gents who signed up proceeded to play an abbreviated game of Core Worlds. With 4 new players it took awhile to get going, but there were quite a few good strategies emerging. As my second play I definitely like it better than Eminent Domain, maybe even a little better than Race for the Galaxy. We then got seven of us to rev up the engines for what I was anticipating, a full advanced rules race of Formula D! The game is MUCH better with the advanced rules, with different wear points and slipstreaming it kept all of us within reach of each other. We had multiple leaders, and debris littering the track from our wreckless driving. Eventually only three drivers finished the race!

Stephen was one of the few that finished the race.





Many of the games we play would be cool to use tournament style, or collect points for placement or standings. Maybe we could do monthly point standings or something of the sort, to make the finish of games of greater interest. The most difficult thing is finding what style of game most enjoy.

Dallin was leaving debris on the track from the very first turn!

GAMING SESSION

Starting the new year I would like to record more of the times that I play games, what games I played, and my impressions of them. We have a pretty regular Thursday game night at the institute with many students, some more hard-core gamers than others. Our first Thursday session of 2012, we played Eminent Domain, a fairly new deck-building/role selection game that has similarities to Dominion, Race for the Galaxy, and Glory to Rome. I played it with the designer last Fall at Strategicon, and while I like it, it doesn't play that smoothly and has limitations.

We also played a big 10 player game of Formula D, a racing game that I was stoked to play. It reminds me of playing Speed Circuit when I was young. We played the basic version and it was fun for a racing game. I would like to play the advanced rules. For the past month we have been playing quite a few games of Shadows Over Camelot, a cooperative game of the knights of the roundtable, but with a traitor element. It has been an OK game to play, but the basic cooperative element can end up just being puzzle-solving. It is the traitor element that makes the game suspenseful and tense.  We played with the expansion Merlin's Company, that has cards with flavor text straight from Monty Python's The Holy Grail. Josh was the traitor, and we had no chance against him this time.