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Gareth Madeley
United Kingdom
Wirral
Merseyside
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Wow, I'm actually posting without having thought "Argh! I meant to post a blog today." That's a good sign. So welcome to my blog.
I went to my local boardgame group on Monday, as I normally do. As we were waiting for some others to arrive, we played Race for the Galaxy. In this game you either have cards in your hand, which act as "blueprints" are as money, and then you can play them in front of you to gain their effects. It's an alright game, but, at least in my opinion, is quite inferior to Glory to Rome. Which gives more options for each card, as it can be a resource, the building, an action or money. For options, normally, means better.
After this, we had 11 people, so, due to the lack of 11 player games (are there any good non-party games for 11?) we split into a five and a six. One table became dedicated to Outpost (a 6 player game can take a while it seems) with the other option being Founding Fathers. Those who have read some of my older posts will know that I really enjoy Outpost, however, I decided to try Founding Fathers, as it's been in and out of my radar for some time. As it was my first time, and no one else had played, the game seemed really random. I wasn't sure what I was doing and the strategies seemed lost on me, but I wouldn't mind giving it another go now I have a better grasp of the rules (especially the end-game scoring).
Once we'd finished (after Simon T playing George Washington and saying "Let's see what happens") we saw Outpost still had quite a while to go. We then grabbed someone's copy of Detroit-Cleveland Grand Prix (Thanks Simon C!) and we played that. The first thing that happens is that cards are dealt out, then, from those cards, we auction off the cars, so if you've got a lot of, say, red, you want to buy the red car. It's an interesting quick game with some interesting decisions (as blocked cars don't move).
Last week I asked about solitaire games and got quite a few comments suggesting Arkham Horror and the Harvest Trilogy, in the end I've played (over the past week) Sid Meier's Civilization: The Board Game and then Here I Stand solitaire (I played all the sides). The one major struggle with these games is the diplomacy between the players, although overall they were quite enjoyable, though I still want to play them with people.
I'm pretty sure I've got the Facebook coupon for GMT Games (which runs out on the 25th), and I'm really enjoying most of the ones I have, Formula Motor Racing, Dominant Species (for which there were complaints due to the lack of bringing it, maybe next week as it's a Bank Holiday) and, as mentioned above, Here I Stand. So I'm wondering what other GMT games people would suggest I take a look at?
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