Boardgames

My buddy at work has expressed interest in Gaslands. Typical me, I purchased a bunch of stuff for it a couple years ago and let it sit un touched.

pulled it out to re-read the rules and the boys wanted in. Well, they wanted to paint first. So we had all of them paint their own car and glue some machine guns (and spikes...so many toothpicks died that day). I also have a 3d printer now, so finally some terrain that matches.

All the boys painted their own cars, just needing a little help with glue. My youngest (6) painted the batmobile and it's pretty impressive.

so we had a race. one of the kids had a monster truck to use, so things weren't "fair" can-wise, but who cares.

Right after this image, the Red Truck rammed the monster truck. which caused a wipeout of the monster truck, who spin forward past the green buggy. Purple Cherokee moves forward and flamethrowers both the bug and the monster truck.

After turning round, Monster Truck runs over the green buggy and crushes it. Batmobile power slides around the corner and zips to victory.

I was the Green Buggy

My family has been playing Heat: Pedal to the Metal mostly. Gradually adding in the modules so the base mechanics can really set in: we’re up to the Legends and Basic Garage modules now and having a great time.

Broke out Tikal recently with the family. Uncovering temples and discovering treasure. Easy rules but also easy to overthink your turn. Nice comfortable easy-to-learn game for the family.

FFG's Star Wars deckbuilding game, and Clank! Star Wars, with its simpler deckbuilding mechanics (similar to Star Realms) is not only a pretty good game but it also worked great as a teaching tool to get my family up to speed on the basics of deckbuilding, so that Clank!'s additional board traversal mechanics were easier for them to figure out.

Had a getaway with my wife so games played ate a bit lower complexity and more social than normal.

Fog Of Love first play was only okay. The game was fun, but the built in tutorial was... extensive. I'll need to play without it to form a better opinion.

Fort was fun when played both times. I really love the "use it or lose it" mechanism in the game with cards played. It's really well executed in the game.

Steam Up was on my wife's must play list because of the beautiful pieces (a buddy has the deluxe version we played). The game is simple (in a good way), and gorgeous.

Anno 1800 is an almost weekly staple. The tech building paths in it work really synergistically whe everyone knows the game well. I love this game, and it plays quick (~90 minutes) at our FLGS because it's in high circulation right now.

Kings Dilemma was finished up (finally). The legacy metric is really fun on this, but it's more an "argue around a table with your friends" than a real board game. I loved this one too and can't wait for Queen's Dilemma once the it ships from the Kickstarter.

Edit: previously called Steam Up dim sum...

Just played my second game of Viscounts of the West Kingdom, I really love the decision space and the deckbuilding nature compared to the other Garphill games. But I am terrible at it, just means we need to play more! Next week is Terraforming Mars, and I have a biweekly Frosthaven group on Mondays. And I think my Crimson Scales group will finally get back together tomorrow after several weeks of a break. We love campaign games!

It's October, and with Halloween coming up my kids and I are playing Horrified a bunch.

My boyfriend and I finally started Frosthaven after spending 8 months on Gloomhaven. Our goal is to finish it before Gloomhaven V2 come out.

I gotta say, we won't be getting another legacy game for a while.