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[Hahma]

Played some games for the first time tonight:

Blades of Legend is a party style role game not unlike Werewolf or The Resistance. But while some of the players are masters, some are wielders where each has a unique weapon and power. A friend is doing a review of this game as well as others that come in the library of small games format that this game comes with. It was okay, though more players would be better. We had 7, but 8 or 10 would be better probably.

Il Principe - this is a very hard game to describe as it is different than any I've played. There is a lot of auction bidding in it but check the link to BGG page to get better info. I liked it, but it was a little tough to get the hang of with the unique mechanics.

Union Pacific - first time playing this older game and I actually did well and won in a 4 player game. Cool railroad stock market game that is simple enough to pick up after a turn or two.

[NecroBlade]

Played a 2-v-2 game of X-Wing the other night. My friend and I were the Rebels with his "Dutch" and 2 Rookie X-Wings and my Wedge and Luke against a total of 5 Academy TIEs, 2 Obsidian TIEs, Vader, and Maarek.

The weak TIEs lined up ti face-off against everyone but Wedge on one side of the asteroid field while the rest of the TIEs/Advanced angled in through it. Wedge meanwhile looped around behind the stronger TIEs. The first exchange of laser-fire went well for use, evening the odds a little bit, but it was all downhill from there. Shortly after the first TIE went down, so did a Rookie. NONE of our upgrades besides Luke/Wedges R2 units mattered at all. "Dutch's" Ion Cannon missed all its shots, both sets of Proton Torpedoes we brought missed, and "Dutch" never re-acquired a target lock with his R2. R2F2 and R2D2 at least help Luke and Wedge, respectively, survive for a while. Despite constantly running into each other and asteroids (though they only took maybe 3/10 hits from asteroids), the sheer number of TIE attacks overwhelmed the X-Wings, as I've yet to see NOT happen. IMO, the first wave favors TIEs slightly, and add to that great luck for the TIEs in almost every game I've played (almost always rolling 100% Evades against the few good attacks against them and often rolling all hits themselves) and our opponents had a solid victory with 5 TIEs remaining (though we did at least damage all but 2 of them).

Love the game, but looking forward to things that make it easier to beat the TIE swarm.

[IAmBatman]

Played Kingsburg with my newly acquired To Forge a Realm expansion. I don't see myself going back to the pre-expansion version any time soon. I really like how the expansion varies gameplay strategies so much. I won one running away and lost a second by a measly four points.