Wow, Coastal Board gamers has completed 60 regular events! During the afternoon and into the evening of 17/12/2022 we enjoyed the last regular event for this year.
Thank you to Fuchsia Fantasy Tea Rooms who cooked up a fantastic Christmas dinner with lots of table decorations, making our mealtime very relaxing and memorable.
Here are the games we played:
- Railroad Ink
- Eclipse: Second Dawn for the Galaxy
- CATAN: Dawn of Humankind
- Oceans
- Gizmos
- Splendor: Marvel
- The Castles of Burgundy
- Root
- Ticket to Ride: Germany
- Legendary: A Marvel Deck Building
- Game
- Namiji
- Secret Hitler
- Axio Rota
- Brass: Birmingham
Fifteen members participated in a high score challenge for base game of Railroad Ink. Congratulations to Marion, the champion, with 57 points. Have a look at her winning entry in the image nearby.
We have one more 2022 special event on New Year’s Eve. Come and play games together from 2pm to 2am and see the new year in with your board gaming community.
This special event is FREE entry for all and FREE PIZZA dinner for everyone. Fuchsia Fantasy will be selling desserts and drinks to be served at 10:30pm. So, join in the fun and bring in the new year with friends in style 🙂
Oceans is a game about managing cards to grow species of fish and see their populations swell. The image above shows Talita’s extreme predator with 18 attack, 6 shells and the ability to feed 4 times. Dominating the table with this predator species, Talita terrorised the table, feeding off everyone else. Carl was persistent with another smaller predator and ended up in a tie for points, winning with the most traits. Well done Carl!
Namiji is the newly released reimplementation of the travel game Tokaido from 2017. Presented with the same style of beautiful art and aesthetic, this game has players sailing a boat through the landscape, stopping to take photos of spectacular aquatic panoramas, engaging in various types of fishing and other nautical action spaces. The fish collected are arranged on a grid to gain points by lining up colour and/or type. New game mechanics make Namiji a slightly deeper game than its predecessor but is still a peaceful, relaxing experience to play.
Another new game was CATAN: Dawn of Humankind. The game contains tracks that sit beside the main game board, resources to collect and a world shaped board providing players with additional options. Narelle said that these brought a fresh feel to CATAN providing more contemporary decisions than the original.