Twas the game night before Christmas. Not many were out. A few focused players setup with care and enjoyed many adventures through the evening fair.
Lords of Waterdeep
Legendary: Big Trouble in Little China
Splendor: Marvel
Drop Drive
It’s a Wonderful World
Bad Company
Carcassonne
The Quest for El Dorado
River of Gold
Barbecubes
Coup
Piles! A Fast-Paced Free-For-All
Ahoy
Drop Drive has the tag line, “Instant Space… Infinite Possibilities!” Fly around a random galaxy collecting the valuable asteroids and deliver them to planets. Along the way collect specimens of alien life, give passengers a ride, and install ship upgrades. The pesky pirates are always stealing all the good stuff so arm weapons, fight them and take it back. Visit a monolith to open up new unknown elements, adding new components and challenges to the game. This pick-up and deliver game also includes set collection, strategic movement, dice combat and variable field of play.
In our game, Jared had the slowest ship but advanced weapons. A monolith encounter revealed a hidden orange planet with exceptional resources. Jared used this to great advantage for a big win.
Dave’s new game is River of Gold. This reminded me of Lords of Waterdeep which was being played on another table at the same time. It has a similar mechanic where players pay to construct upgraded buildings at the ports. Ships that sail to the port get a reward, the owner of the port buildings also gets a reward.
The placement of the ports along the river are interesting, a ship will often benefit from up to 4 ports at once. This makes the game move quite quickly. The depth of game in such a short play time was impressive.
Next event will be New Years Eve, playing from 2pm to 2am – bring in the new year with Coastal Board Gamers! There will be play-to-win games at this exciting event.
