Last night a group of us played Revolution, ( a newish Francis Tresham game about the Eighty Years' War )

Last night's gaming brought us the first half of a game of Le Havre. It has a feel fairly similar to Agricola or Stone Age but felt more straightforward than either to me. It did tend to run long; the box said "100-200 minutes", we were running somewhat slowly, and got maybe halfway through in maybe two hours of playing ( Read more... )

Saturday's traditional games-on-campus mob included both a run of Notre Dame and a game of Stone Age. I enjoyed Stone Age (even if I failed to pick a winning strategy, and for that matter failed to divine what a winning strategy would be), but I definitely picked up that it had the same "bootstrap first, then get victory points" nature that Notre ( Read more... )

We played 1856 yesterday, extremely quickly as these things go -- we started play at noon and finished around 5:15 PM. This is also the first time I've seen the game end by player bankruptcy, but it was a forced diesel train buy and so fairly close to the end of the game ( Read more... )

Apparently I've had the two modules of 1825 for a while but we've never actually gotten to playing with the two of them together. We finally got to that yesterday, and it turned into a reasonable 18xx game (but remember, the kinder, gentler version with no company dumping ( Read more... )

They seem to have reissued Talisman, and so we wound up getting a copy at Your Move Games. (Not entirely clear who "they" is, there's a Games Workshop copyright on the board proper but no other particular mention of GW.) There are a couple of minor differences -- one of the "runes" spaces used to give a +3 to enemies, now all three are +2; you ( Read more... )

Deal the initial cards normally. In addition to the normal contracts, flip up three contract cards, as in a "public contracts" variant. When you fill a contract, take your choice of one of the face-up contract cards and replace it from the deck; if the replacement is an event, resolve the event as usual and draw a new card. If you discard ( Read more... )

We did in fact succeed in getting people together for games yesterday. We had five for Die Macher, which I didn't expect to take all day, but we actually got started around 10 or 10:30 and didn't finish until after 4. I took an early lead in the first couple of elections, but nuclearpolymer mopped up at the end when her party platform lined up pretty well with ( Read more... )

A coworker dragged me off to a games part at one of his friends' houses last night. This turned out to be a geek circle that also wanted to play geek games, so it all worked out. Their filler game was Ricochet Robots which they played like Set which seemed to work reasonably.

Our main event, though, was Vanished Planet. Earth has unleashed the ( Read more... )

Following up on something mistergrumpy asked over Zephyr a while ago...I can't seem to find any useful online errata for Iron Dragon but I've seen/heard/tried mention of a couple of rules variants, and there's one or two things we almost always play differently.

( Rules )