More gaming with nearby friends.
The warm-up game was Faraway, which I continue to enjoy when I play it: slightly strange art that doesn’t distract (me) from the business of playing the game, and while in something like Terraforming Mars I detest the early decisions to commit to a particular strategy that it may or may not be possible to follow later, when as here it’s basically the whole game I find I object rather less.
The scoring was the usual tangle.
Then on to Automobiles oi the Monza track, one of my favourites because it demands a balanced car setup rather than specialising into just dark grey and black. (Not that I won or anything.)
In both cases my feeling was that I enjoyed…
More gaming with nearby friends.
The warm-up game was Faraway, which I continue to enjoy when I play it: slightly strange art that doesn’t distract (me) from the business of playing the game, and while in something like Terraforming Mars I detest the early decisions to commit to a particular strategy that it may or may not be possible to follow later, when as here it’s basically the whole game I find I object rather less.
The scoring was the usual tangle.
Then on to Automobiles oi the Monza track, one of my favourites because it demands a balanced car setup rather than specialising into just dark grey and black. (Not that I won or anything.)
In both cases my feeling was that I enjoyed that and want to play it more. Clearly I need to play more games. BoardGameArena isn’t really a good substitute; the physicality and sociaising are both important to me.
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