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We kicked the week off by playing Middara and due to the December holidays it had been over six weeks since we played it. We were a little rusty on the exact rules but, luckily, we still had half a scenario left from last time so we could take our time to familiarize ourselves again with all the combat details. We’ve been playing the game with four characters while we are with three players with the idea that the fourth character is like the backup car from Top Gear and that has been a great choice. We’ve had multiple sessions where one of the characters was knocked out! Enemies can really do much damage if you have some unlucky dice rolls and the player characters are quite squishy in the early stage of the game. No clue if this will change, we’ll see!

We played another game of Katmai: The Bears of Brooks River and we think this upcoming title of Osprey is really charming. The production value is great (the bear portraits are awesome) and if we had to quickly explain the game to other gamers, we’d say it’s a combination of Air, Land and Sea, and Cascadia.

On Friday, we visited friends, and we played a game Barricade/Malefiz because they were surprised that we had never played that before. They picked it up at a flea market a few years back and well… we have all decided that the game is a little better than Ludo but ooooof… it takes way too long for what it is.

But, playing such older games (this one is from the sixties) does make you appreciate the level of games that are available nowadays. We followed Barricade up with a game of Tower Up! We had played the game before with two players but we thought that didn’t really do the game any justice (even though there’s a special two-player map). Playing it with four players made the game way more interesting and we all thought it was a fun and quick game! The only downside was that the different colored roofs were a little hard to tell apart from each other for our colorblind friend when they were part of a tower (between blocks). We might simply add small markings to the sides of the roofs to make it more playable for him. We would compare the game’s difficulty level to Ticket to Ride, so it’s great as a light game or for families.

On Saturday night, we spontaneously visited the monthly game night at De Dondersteen (the game store in our neighboring city) after friends invited us. They recently expanded their store with a board game cafe and the place looked great, almost all the tables were filled up! It’s always great to see a place like this thrive and that people have a place to meet up and play games. We had a lot of fun playing It’s a Wonderful World and then joined another table for a game of Codenames: Pictures. Slowly, the group of players kept growing and we ended the night with a seven-player game of Caution Signs. We still have to find somebody who did not enjoy a game of Caution Signs; it’s so impressive how everybody seems to have a great time even if they have drawing skills or not. That’s why we are really confused that not a single Dutch publisher has picked up this game because it’s guaranteed success with the right marketing.

We’re not sure yet what this week will bring besides one planned game night and a thing I’m really excited about… we’re going to play Xia: Legends of a Drift System again! It’s been way too long! I hope you all have a great week.

How many ‘monopolies’ do you own? 😉

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