The roommate sent out various texts and managed to get a few people to stop by for a night of board gaming. Friends Kevin and Josh and Josh's new fiance. First off we played a two-lap game of Forumula De, which I managed to win thanks to some aggresive use of the 5th and 6th gear in the second lap...

After that was couple hours of Cards Against ( Read more... )

The roommate picked up Commands & Colors: Napoleonics and had us play tonight, using the first scenario. Historically this was a British victory. But thanks to my slaughtering his Portuguese support troops with my Bayonet Charge command cards, victory instead belonged to the Republican forces...

Spent the evening at a birthday party for the once-and-future-roommate. We were going to do a night of various board and card games, but ended up getting sucked into the Order of the Stick game. Managed to take five hours to defeat Xykon and get out of the dungeon. Fun , though I'm a little bit disappointed in not getting a chance to introduce ( Read more... )

Only a half-dozen or so people showed up for this week. But I played some Power Grid, Lost Cities and finished with a Warhammer based game, Chaos of the Old Country or something. The last is a four-person game where each person runs one of the Warhammer chaos gods, spreading death, destruction and doom. I had the one in charge of pestilence and ( Read more... )

Since I'm on vacation I went to the Board Gaming night down in Mesa. Played some Power Grid, where I still lost but it was do to bad strategy and not being totally clueless about the game. Then Wits & Wagers which I most definitely hate now. Both because of the near impossible trivia aspect and how badly I did at betting. And then we finished ( Read more... )

Brendan and Noah came by last night for my birthday. We ended up playing board games, ordering pizza and watching Wizard of Speed & Time. I completely botched up some early purchases in St.Petersburg and did terrible at that. Noah got lucky with a combo of cheap blue product producing planets and a blue market and cleaned up at Race for the ( Read more... )

Got all shopping done in about 15 minutes. Probably because I bought everything off Amazon and went more for gifts for family groups, rather than individuals. So games mostly, including two sets of Apples to Apples...

So the Scottsdale hotel asked me back to the same shifts as before. So this will likely be the last free weekend for a while. Got to play two of my games that I'd been wanting to try again, Betrayal at the House on the Hill (which we won, even if I was a frog) and Vegas Showdown (which the ex-roommate surged ahead at the end to beat me at). Also ( Read more... )

Started out playing what was my worst ever game of Ra which I took last (against a pair of rookies) with a fucking 19. Two non-scoring rounds for me. Sheesh. Did much better at Smarty Party where I tied for 1st. Did another trivia game, Wits & Wagers that I didn't like as much. Most of the questions weren't as clear as they should have been ( Read more... )

Ended up staying out until almost 6 AM playing the Game of Thrones card game. Sadly despite a nice mid-game lead, Noah turned it around with his Lannisters to rocket to victory ( Read more... )