The 20th of May 2023 was another great night for games at Coastal Board Gamers. We played:
- Hegemony: Lead Your Class to Victory
- Indigo
- Legendary: A Marvel Deck Building Game
- Dungeons & Dragons: The Yawning Portal
- 5211
- Steam Up: A Feast of Dim Sum
- Anomia
- Dune: Imperium
- Century: Golem Edition
- Forests of Pangaia
- Expancity
- Paperback
- UNO Flip!
- Dungeon Mayhem: Monster Madness
- The Castles of Burgundy
- Scarface 1920
- Star Trek: Frontiers
- Bunny Kingdom
And welcomed a new member Cathryn, who thoroughly enjoyed herself.
Our brave heroes of the Marvel group attempted to thwart the dastardly plans of Thanos. They were defeated. Twice. I guess we all survived the snap? Or is Thanos still missing a stone or two in this timeline?
Fortunately, there were plenty of other games played. Like many of our recent meetings we had a wide variety of games with a group engrossed in party games and word games, like Paperback and Uno Flip. Other tables held some more strategic games like Steam Up and Bunny Kingdom. No, seriously, there’s a game called Bunny Kingdom, and it is highly strategic.
The big game of the evening was Hegemony, the new hotness involving asymmetrical play with the players taking on various factions in society from peasants through to capitalists, prompting various groans and exclamations as small shifts on the board held great consequences for all players. Talita’s cry of, “Capitalism for the win!” signalled her hard-fought victory.
We are getting better at organising the dinner time in our new venue, and it’s proving a great moment to take a break and chat with the other members over food. We may need to include a couple more seats at the table if the group gets any larger. There were no major announcements to make, except, of course, for the imminent Meeple Escape awesome weekend of gaming. There will be a report on that soon.
I got to introduce Castles of Burgundy to a couple of new players, James and Cathryn. James proceeded to then beat me at my own game, but we were playing on different board. And the dice were mean to me, mumble, mumble, gamer’s excuses, mumble. Also, I was distracted by cries of, “You can’t take the sky from me!” and “May the fore be with you!” from the table playing Star Trek Frontiers.
Our next regular event will be on Saturday, June 3rd. We’d love to see you all there.
I will be interested in playing “Star Trek: Frontiers” another time.