I like train games (there I said it), Locomotive Werks is not your typical train game though, you're trying to build trains rather than networks. If you've played Martin Wallace's Automobile this is the game that he was inspired by (or ripped off, depends on your point of view). It's fairly simple but tricky to get right, we played with 3 but in hindsight it would probably be better with 4 or more.
Garry 408, Steve 357, Matt 323
18th Feb - Locomotive Werks
11th Feb - Il Vecchio and Mow
This week we played Il Vecchio a game released this Essen, it was on my list but my suitcase was too full so fortunately Matt picked this up just after Christmas. Another great game from Essen, OK nothing wildly innovavative but a good solid game, looking forward to playing it again.
Garry 63, Matt 56 (tiebreak), Steve 56
Then we had time for a game of Mow, which I would have won but I was brutally picked on (that's my excuse anyway)
Matt 67, Steve 77, Garry 81
4th Feb - 5 games!
Blimey we managed to play 5 games this evening, unheard of!
First Up Carolus Magnus. This was quite a close game despite the scores (honest)
Steve 8 Matt 5, Garry 0
Then 2 games of Cabale a nice wooden abstract
Steve 37, Matt 29, Garry 23
Garry 16, Matt 2, Steve 1
Next up was the fish game Fish Eat Fish
Matt 8, Garry 7, Steve 0
Then finally a quick game of Botswana
Garry 34, Matt 30, Steve 21
21st Jan - Myrmes
Another go at Myrmes, better known as 'that ant game'. When I first played this just after Essen I was quite impressed but it seems that this years Essen crop was particularly good and everything else I've played has been even better. Still, it's a good game but nothing special.
Paul 60, Matt 53, Garry 53, Steve 44
15th Jan - Terra Mystica
Another go at Terra Mystica. This time we randomly chose our factions and also set up the bonus cards and scoring card randomly. I love this game, really really good, I still feel as though I'm stumbling around in the dark regarding strategy but it's great fun learning.
Matt 93, Garry 88, Steve 77
And we had time for a game of Love Letter afterwards.
Matt 5, Garry 1, Steve 0
11th Jan - Terra Mystica
Really wanting to try out Terra Mystica so we decided to give it a go on a Friday night as it was likely to take quite a while.
The game itself is not difficult to play but there is a lot of rules to learn. I'd read the rules several times before and written out a players guide, even so it took 90 mins to explain everything. Fortunately we got almost everything right, with just 1 rule about building towns wrong.
Once we got started things flowed a bit quicker but there are so many things to do it really melts your brain.
It's a great game though, well from what I can tell after 1 play. Loads of things to do and with all the different Faction/scoring tiles/bonus tiles I think it going to keep us busy for a while.
Matt 89, Steve 89, Ben 80, Garry 69
(These are the scores I have written down, I'm not sure if they're right, I thought Ben came in 3rd Place)
7th Jan - Comuni
Comuni this week, hmmm... Not sure about this one
Paul 45, Steve 32, Matt 30, Garry 16
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