Games Sunday!

[ironphoenix]

Arrive anytime after 1; RSVP's and ETA's appreciated but not essential; snacks likewise. If arriving after 6, call ahead in case we're out to dinner.

I have a few new games that demand to be played.

One of them, Space Alert, is a rather intriguing cooperative game with shades of RoboRally. It has a set of tutorial scenarios, and I would like to play through a few of them Sunday with 3 or 4 like-minded eager space cadets. Scenarios take about 25 minutes each, and involve an audio CD which gives real-time reports etc. during the 10 minutes of mission execution.

Another, At the Gates of Loyang, is a simulation of the famous Battle of Loyang, in which the defenders mounted a desperate sally against the Besieging--no, wait, it's actually about vegetable sellers who set up stalls in the market just outside the city gates. This looks like an engine-building game in which the first 3 turns or so are rather hardscrabble, and one starts hitting one's stride around turn 5, of 9 total turns. It has vegimeeples: cute little pumpkins, radishes, leeks...!

The third, Carson City, I haven't worked out the rules for yet, but it's a worker-placement game. Unlike most such games though, there is a solution to the annoyance of someone doing what you wanted to do before you could get there: shootouts! Lots of bits, plus you get cowbeeples!

Also acquired were Nile, Tichu, the Small World: Tales and Legends expansion, and the spiffy blocks for Agricola, although I still don't have sheeples, mooples, or piggles. I have horsles, though! Tichu is a known good game. Nile was a mistake based on BoardGameGeek info; it turns out that it seems to be a shoddy card game that is in all ways inferior to Bohnanza.

Missing is Dominion: Prosperity, which has been short-shipping because the (adjective deleted) manufacturer didn't print nearly enough copies. I also ordered Shipyard but my ship didn't come in on that one.

Comments

lazy lazy wg007 here

[(Anonymous)]

Have fun on Sunday!!! I wish I was in town to join you.

Space Alert is one of my least fav's ever, but I know a lot of people like it. So I hope you enjoy and I'd be interested to know what camp you are in once you have a chance to play.

I believe BF and I played Carson City, so he could help with the rules if he's going to be there. I remember liking it but I don't remember the shoot-outs??? So maybe I'm thinking of a different game...

Anyway, enjoy!!! :)

[gaynip.livejournal.com]

I would like to come and play some games!

[metawidget]

Planning ahead is sketchy, but I think I will come by and shoot to arrive as things begin.

I know to get off at Lycée Claudel, but could you remind me of the details of your coordinates (here or any way you feel like sending them)?

[dagibbs.livejournal.com]

Sadly, I won't be able to make it. I'll be in TO, or transitioning from TO to KW, probably by way of Hamilton.

[jagash.livejournal.com]

Alas, I shan't be able to make it. Have a good time!

[frenchzie.livejournal.com]

Perhaps...
... and should I come, can I extend this invite to my friend "matei101", that you've met last Friday...?

[xiphia.livejournal.com]

*random moving flail* I doubt I'll make this one. Though if I need to escape the boxes for a time, I'll try to sneak over with Prosperity. Hmm, come to think of it, if I tell a room full of gamers that Prosperity is in "somewhere in that stack of boxes" I bet I could get the new place unpacked in record time! :D

[bastetschylde.livejournal.com]

LOL, I won't be making this one....

I'm starting my own ^.~ - you've been sent an invite!