I’ve spent the morning writing a few session reports covering the past couple of days of boardgaming. It’s been a fun weekend. For once, I’m not out on a Sunday, so I’m enjoying the relaxation.
Yesterday, Randy, Josh, Rich and I gathered at Randy’s place for a few boardgames. The major new game we played was Last Train to Wensleydale, a game about shipping cheese by Martin Wallace. It’s a very entertaining game which is fairly short but intense. It took us two hours to play, but I’m sure we could do it in the range of 60-90 minutes now we know what we’re doing.
We also played Ticket to Ride 1910 with five players, Mel joining in. This was an extremely tight and enjoyable experience. Although I was introduced to TTR through the Europe game, I’m becoming a lot fonder of the original version and its expansion, although I think both Randy and Josh would have appreciated stations in the game. I managed to win both train games we played!
In between the train games was The Name of the Rose, a boardgame by Stefan Feld, a designer whose work I quite admire. Rose isn’t his best game, but it includes a fair deal of bluffing and trying to conceal your identity from other players. This was a close game, with Randy taking it by a solitary point from me and Josh. Rich did not have a good game.
We also played Descent: Journeys in the Dark. It’s a fun game, even if the balance is wonky (especially when the heroes get the better treasures). I had only small successes as the Overlord as the three heroes crushed my dungeon. I’ve got the Quest Compendium, but I haven’t actually run all the quests from the original box, so this was one of them.
On Friday, I introduced Nash to BattleLore and we played two scenarios: Agincourt and Burgos, Castille. Both were really close games, but the pictures of the battles really say to me that I need to paint the minis, as I do with my BattleTech and Descent ones!
Whilst I was playing other games this week, Nash, Popey, Derek and Sarah were playing through a couple more missions in the BattleTech campaign I’m running for them (Sword and Dragon starterbook with some houserules). Nash and Popey are really getting into the game, which is excellent. We need to play some more games in our own campaign!