Meeple Escape tickets are hot! So, get into as many games as possible to prepare 😀
Scythe: The Rise of Fenris
Orléans
Heat: Pedal to the Metal
The Quest for El Dorado
Fort
Thunder Road: Vendetta
Get Stacked
Five Crowns
12 Rivers
Libertalia: Winds of Galecrest
Machi Koro 2
Mistborn: The Deckbuilding Game
Guillotine
Skull King
Bites
High Society
Dungeon Mayhem: Monster Madness
Hamburg
Chameleon
Root
Thunder Road: Vendetta was played twice and produced lots of action. Cars were bunched up close together with speed then… smash – crash, leaving all 3 large vehicles damaged! Was a struggle to the end with Hobbo finding it difficult to keep any cars on the road. Gwyn managed to evade destruction and speed off for the win.
Orléans is a bag builder with lots of ways to generate points. Narelle’s deluxe components added to the fun of having so many tokens in the bag. Monks are wild but they do tend to leave for pilgrimages, so I found out not to depend on them too much. Dave had played before, Maurice and I were learning. This is an interesting game with a fascinating tempo. This is definitely a game that has to be tried once to learn then played again knowing the rhythm and feel.
Game Report by Mel
First game of 8 in the Rise of Fenris campaign, and I’ve drawn Saxony for the whole campaign (the wolf faction) 🐺
Thanks to Mike for bringing and teaching us this. I’m embarrassed to say that I unfortunately handed Haydn an easy win with 2 stars in the last turn 🫢 while I got a woeful 2 stars out total. But I still didn’t come last (thanks, Carl). Look out in game 2, Haydn. Count down to game 2 in 3.. 2.. 1..
For the second game I formed a quick alliance with Mike, gaining myself his river walking workers ability along with 9 coins. Score! In true Mel fashion I once again handed over the win, but to Carl this time, by not moving fast enough to steal his massive pile of resources that were ripe for the picking. Thankfully, I managed 2nd place this time. I think there was a 4th person in the game..? Who knows?
For my final game of the night, Narelle introduced Colin, Gwyn, Tim, Hobbo and myself to her new party game ‘Get Stacked’. This game is full of hilarious mini-games which left me laughing so hard I cried at the sheer ridiculousness of turning up to a board game night just to compete for who can catapult a pencil off the edge of a table into a box more than 2 feet away in the least amount of turns. The answer is Gwyn – in 2 turns. Ultimately though I took the win in the end by a point… does that make up for my abysmal Scythe performances?
