games day

[cellio]

We had a dozen or so people for gaming on Saturday. I played one new game this time, Pandemic, which I really enjoyed. Ralph, who brought it, wrote about the game here, but I'll share my impressions too.
This is a cooperative game for up to four players (all of our games

Comments

[dr_zrfq]

Pandemic is a fun game. Even though most of the time, the players lose... most of the losing games are still fun. It takes a particularly ugly combination to make it a not-fun game.

Pastrami scrambled into eggs, or in an omelet or frittata, works well. Yum. Deli roast beef slices *can* be stir-fried with veggies, but start the veggies *first*. The sliced meat will warm up *really* fast. I'd consider the same for the turkey, or combine the turkey with mashed potatoes or hash browns.

[cellio]

I played in three games of Pandemic. We won the two on the easiest level, and (with different players) lost by one card the one on the second level of difficulty. More data points will be required, obviously. :-)

Stir-fry: yes, since the beef is already cooked and is sliced thin, I was assuming that this would mean a veggie stir-fry with the beef added at the very end. I hadn't thought to try that with turkey; thanks for the suggestion (also the others).

[cellio]

Ooh, beef/spinach/onion omelet sounds yummy. And yeah, I should have thought of salads. Thanks!

[alaricmacconnal]

Roast beef also works well with pesto and some olive oil (we've made appetizers on bread with the above and it turned out well). Not sure how it scales. Put some olive oil on sliced bread (the heartier breads work better), add some roast beef and pesto on the top ... bake till the bread is crisp ... I think around 10 minutes or so.

[cellio]

Thanks. All of the pesto recipes I'm familiar with use cheese; do you know of one that doesn't, or have ideas on what one can substitute (other than fake cheese)?

[pedropadrao]

Pastrami eggs are a long-time favorite where I'm from. You can fry up pastrami like some folks fry up bacon.

[cellio]

Ooh, fried pastrami sounds like it would be tasty. Thanks.

[cellio]

Dominion doesn't need a board, but without a table you have to be able to keep the ten action cards currently in play, and what they do, swapped into memory. That's probably not too hard on the first game, but if you keep playing different variations it seems like it would get hard. Or are you thinking that you could put the stacks of cards in the box top? That might work (don't have the box handy to judge whether it would fit).

[byronhaverford]

Loved Pandemic.

Don't feel like I really played Imperial (I didn't understand the rules).

I remain somewhat cool towards Dominion, for the same reasons I discussed before.

San Juan was great fun! I like it better than Puerto Rico -- faster moving, fewer things to keep track of.

[cellio]

Sorry to hear about Imperial. I hope you'll give it another try under better circumstances. (I've only played once but I liked it a lot.)

I've never played San Juan (and forgot that it had been played at this session). Sounds like something I should try. How many players does it support?

[byronhaverford]

I don't know the answer to your question. Probably maxes at 4 or 5.