Wednesday, 1 May 2013

My April plays... a lot of new games for me this month, as is to be expected during Swancon.

My April plays... a lot of new games for me this month, as is to be expected during Swancon.

Memoir '44 - 36 plays. Played for the first time this month

My, that's impressive...and all in the past week. I have only just started playing it, it's a nice little wargame and it is so, so quick to play online - so it has a lot of novelty value. So many scenarios. Anyone else liking it, I'm Dread Pirate Leece on Days of Wonder. That goes for Ticket to Ride variants as well.

Ticket to Ride: Europe - 8 plays

My favourite standby - a mix of cardboard and digital plays. Never as many as I would like.

King of Tokyo  - 5 plays

Such a riot, and a must buy after the first couple of games we had this month.

Tsuro - 5 plays

Won this boxed game, it gets played a lot and it goes to a lot of people and is short. I can take or leave it.

Hey, That's My Fish! - 3 plays

I play this with my mum a bit on my Galaxy Tab.

Love Letter - 3 plays
Learned this at the WABA meet this month but I am no good at it. Am Convinced guy I was playing with was a telepath.

Nefarious - 3 plays

Bwahahahaha!

Aquileia - 2 plays

A new game for April and it is so good, I want to play it again and again.

Tigris & Euphrates - 2 plays 

Playing on my Galaxy Tab with my sweety.

Timeline: Inventions - 2 plays

A popular filler with the groups we play with.

7 Wonders  - 1 play

Dixit Odyssey - 1 play

Flash Point: Fire Rescue - 1 play

Learnt this at Swancon, impressed enough to join the Kickstarter to get our own copy.

Mutant Meeples - 1 play

Learnt at Swancon, don't really want to play again.

Pandemic - 1 play

Ticket to Ride Map Collection: Volume 1 - Team Asia & Legendary Asia

1 play of Legendary Asia. Still haven't played Team Asia yet.

Ticket to Ride Map Collection: Volume 2 - India & Switzerland

1 play of...er India I think.

Vinci

1 play of this. Still better than Small World but Small World is ok.

That looks like it.

8 comments:

  1. So glad I'm not the only one that feels that way after Mutant Meeples. I think I'd rather gargle broken glass than play that game again.

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  2. I hear, you Clinton Coddington , I hear you. It could have been a nicer experience. When there's a time dependant, brain judo game going on, I believe that the experienced person teaching should perhaps consider sitting out. It may not be deliberate, but a series of blinding fast winning moves in rapid succession while you're still figuring what meeple does what under the clock is very demoralising. It still wouldn't be my favourite game but I would at least actually consider playing it again in possible preference to cleaning all the bathrooms in Grand Central Station with my tongue.

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  3. Not to brag but I'm a pretty fast decision maker and I don't suffer from AP but when you ladle all that extra pressure on, my brain just shuts down.

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  4. Likewise, except for timed scrabble or monochrome chess.

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  5. In that I rarely suffer from AP, but timed games give me brain freeze, except the examples above.

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  6. I think the only one I really enjoy since it is just plain fun is Escape the Curse of the Temple

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  7. I've not heard of that one. Sounds like fun! (goes and looks it up)

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