Game Session

We have had a "space" theme of late with our gaming, especially tonight. With just a smalll group, we played Race for the Galaxy first. While I feel it is a fun game, at times it can be too "forced" in your choice of strategy. It really depends upon what homeworld you have and what cards you are dealt. And while you can increase your chance to get the cards you need or can really use, it is chance that you get them. Fun but not my favorite.

We then played our first full game of Core Worlds, we never finished our first game some months ago. With the beginnning auction on each turn you have more choice in the cards you want and the strategy you will use, as long as others don't take the cards you want! Tyler took the core world I was preparing for the whole game and snaked a victory. As we are still unfamiliar with the overall selection of cards, the game seemed to take longer than it should have. There is not as much of a variety as RftG, but I think it is more strategic. I just wish it could be a shorter game.

My layout of planets in Core Worlds.

Race for the Galaxy
1- Brett, 2- Tim, 3- Nate

Core Worlds
1- Tyler, 2- Brett, 3- Nate, 4- Tim

GAMING SESSION

A great full night of games. We started with Race for the Galaxy and did a 3 player game that Nate dominated. Then with the group we played a couple of rounds of Shadow Hunters, one I was on the winning team as shadows, and the other I got eliminated by my own team. ARGH! We then closed with one of my favorite games, Panic Station. Intense paranoia in one of the best deductive/semi cooperative with a traitor element games. Very unique, kind of modeled after the movie The Thing. My heart has raced more in that game in not knowing who to trust. This was the first time I have ever been the host with the infection, and I quickly infected Tyler and we systematically eliminated most of the rest and won. Admittedly I was not AS paranoid being the infected from the beginning. Thrilling none the less.