Friday gaming
Swung by SGS last night for a round of gaming. Aaron was there opening up three new games, including Attika.
We decided to try a two-player game while we waited for additional folks to show up. It’s an interesting building/connection game which has some nice features. The hex board and resources reminded me a bit of Settlers at first glance, but there’s much more emphasis on territory, no trading, etc; it’s not really Settlers-esque at all.
The buildings can be built without resources if you can either find the right spots on the board (pre-printed resources) or for free if you follow the tech treebuild order printed on your card (and have the spaces to put them in).
Two win conditions: build all your buildings, or connect two shrines. The latter seems more likely in most games.
Aaron won, unsurprisingly. By that point, Kevin and Ed had shown up, so we played another game with all four of us; it’s definitely a different game with four, though it tended to be two at each end of the board there was enough going on in the middle to keep it from being two separate games.
I like Attika. I’ll probably want to play it again next week.
Aaron then left, and (after I nixed Funkenschlag due to lack of remaining brain cells from the week) we played a game of Settlers/Cities & Knights/Seafarers, which, despite a fairly rich board, ran slowly. Bad rolls–very few 8s–and an early attack by the pirates slowed us down; we never did get to the other island, or even build any boats, so the Seafarers part wasn’t really involved.
After that, a quick round of Can’t Stop as a nightcap; when that finished, it was time to go home and crash.
