(this comic was based on/inspired by this Twitter topic!)
Culling board games… a sometimes necessary thing that needs to be done. It hurts the inner-collecter and emotional side of me but it also needs to happen to make some mental and actual space to enjoy board games again. Each year after SPIEL, we have to take a critical look at our collection and have to let go of some games. Sometimes you have to admit that certain might not be played anymore or that there’s another game in the same genre that we like better now.

This week was busy busy busy! It’s clear that, work-wise, there’s a ‘last weeks of the year’-sprint going on right now.  Luckily, despite our being really stressed at work, we managed to have some time for games and to see friends.

On Thursday we had ‘Dexterity Donderdag’ which translates to Dexterity Thursday. Normally we would have played another game of Arcs but one of our group had to call it a night a little earlier and they had never played a dexterity game before so we saw a chance to introduce them to some! We started off with Tokyo Highway! It was slightly chaotic and we all noticed that we mostly enjoy building stuff (…and maybe blocking others) and that scoring points is nice but not necessary to have fun. We followed that up with a totally different energy and played Klask! I don’t know what happened that night but it felt like gravity was different than in our own home because biscuits and the balls were flying through the room! It was great fun though – you can never really go wrong with Klask. Since we still had some time left, we went with the classic… Rhino Hero Super Battle! It was rather remarkable how long our structure lasted.

On Friday, we played the second scenario of War Story: Occupied France and I believe I can speak for everybody playing that we’re all hooked! The story is engaging and the tactical decisions are interesting. We’re not really sure if we would replay the game though, maybe after a few years when we’ve forgotten the details of the mission? But certainly not immediately.

Heinze continued working on his cool Turnip28 army and the oil-wash technique he’s using works really well with the slightly weird Turnip miniatures. On Sunday we played a relaxing game of Space Base. Ironically, this is one of those games that I win most of the time (87% win ratio at the moment) because I build less of a complicated engine and start scoring points earlier than Heinze does. So Heinze would need to add a little more urgency to his play style and he could probably win too.

This week we’ll be continuing Middara and we’ll be playing Zoo Vadis and maybe HEAT or even Colt Express? We’re not sure yet! There’s a date and there are people so whatever we’ll decide to play, I’m sure we’ll have fun. 🙂