Recap Monday Week 28 - What did you play last week?

We played a 2-player session of Ark Nova - I cannot get enough, the game is fantastic. Luckily, I lost the session so my gf might not get burned out again of the game. Really enjoy the game with 2, the gameplay is super fun. I am dreading to play it with more, I think it would become super chaotic. Anyone tried with more? Does the game take ages?

We also played the classic [https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/84876/castles-burgundy](The Castles of Burgundy) with 4 players. Its a super fun game, definitely the older-style Euros but it really still holds its own. We have a pretty nice organizer for it with dice trays and a place for all the hexes. It makes the setup and replenishing of tiles super easy and fast. Got something like 255 points in the end and almost filled my Kingdom, I had 2 or 3 hexes left to go. All Animal hexes and mines. The other three went for animals early game so I decided to leave it for later, 2-players completed all three mines before I could thus the victory marker was gone for it.

We also played Dominion, 2nd edition with 3 players. It just works so well, especially if you just have 30min. Its enough to explain the game and whip out one game. Just perfekt.

We player Brass: Birmingham for the first time. It's very promising, but by the time we finished the canal era it was almost midnight and we decided to stop there. It took us 3 hours to read the rules and play an half game ;)

Looking forward to play it to the end next time!

Much of my group are on vacation and another had to babysit unexpectedly so it was a two player evening.

We first played Firefly (respectable business people I think) and it was pretty tight the whole game. What threw me off at first was just how unimportant a big payday is in this scenario. For the first part you really just need to get one mission from each of the non alliance folks done. You're almost automatically swimming in cash afterwards. Enough to do some shopping in the line up to the final two stages. We both were reasonably close to each other with me having somewhat of a lead. Then I brain bleeped. After moving all the way to the fringes of space I traveled back to the core, to where the second stage was starting, forgetting to actually turn in my 4th mission in outer sectors. So I then had to fly back out and back in again. All the while the nav decks were getting dangerously small. There's a bad card somewhere in them in 2 player and every turn became an agonized will it hit me or the other player game? Then luck swung hard and smacked my friend with BOTH of them one after another. This put me clearly ahead again and thanks to my extended crew quarters the final two stages were a breeze.

We still had about an hour to spend so we whipped out Factory Funner, always a blast but I don't get to play it often enough as my GF doesn't like it and neither does one of our group. My friend started designing this nice and well structured factory, leaving room for connections, while I again just slammed everything the first place where it fit. This turned out to be costly for me at times as about halfway through I was forced to place over a dozen pipes to make a new machine fit. But my friend's plans also didn't work out quite as well and I was actually able to place more machines than he was. After the last round he had a commanding lead but the interconnectivity bonus came in clutch for me once more, allowing me to jump ahead in the final scoring.

On the weekend I had the saturday for myself and invested it in translating an RPG system to German. I am now close to having a pretty comlete wiki for it. Once that is done I can start putting effort into the campaign details.

Members of our group were finally around! A couple weren't, so there were just 4 of us which means Gloomhaven JOTL!

We hadn't seen each other for best part of a month, so we spent far longer catching up than intended so we ran on later than usual, but thanks to some incredible damage output, we managed to speed through some sections of our scenario! Nothing like the smell of burning vermlings to invigorate us before a boss fight!

Our copy of Button Shy's River Wild also showed up this week, so my partner and I played an introductory game of that and scored a mildly reasonable 39 points! 1 more point and I could boast it was a reasonably good score!

I played a few solo games, including Dustrunner and Gate, and I did a couple scenarios in Monster Expedition (in which I realized I had been under-improving my hunting camps in my previous games by not using all applicable dice). My girlfriend and I got in a couple games of Wingspan ala duet mode, which is always a satisfying way to spend post of an afternoon.

Also, I picked up the BGStats app and have spent a fair amount of time entering any logged games I could scrounge up. I feel complete now.

I've been playing Zamek (a.k.a. "The Castle") with @smorkin. The plan is to get to at least 1000 plays of that game. It's a 1x1000 challenge. Fun fun fun ♥

My friends and I played Legends of Andor with the expansion where you are on a ship. It was very hard for us the first tries because alot of monster spawn at the beginning and we didn't have the right tactic to fight all of them. Also we didn't get the rules completely right which made things much harder for us. But we beat the first chapter and I don't know if I wanna play again. It takes sooo long to play and to setup

We don't have as many games as most people in such communities have. 😀 I was on vacations last week, so we went through most of the games.

Played a game of Settlers of Catan, couple of games of Ticket to Ride, one game of Splendor, and some games of Monopoly Duel.

Just got Cities & Knights expansion for Catan, but that seems a bit more complicated for the kid, so haven't stared that yet. Maybe after he has played a few more games of base Settlers of Catan.

Played all of these with wife and kids.