Game Night! - 4 December 2015

Wow - it's been a while since I managed to get to a game night.  Due to some unfortunate issues outside my control, we only had 2 people at the last game night - and one of those was me.  Regardless, we made the best we could and managed to get in several games.

The Agents
We started off with 3 games of The Agents.  As I promised back in September, I managed to get revenge and won all 3 games.  Woot!

With that said, I'm not convinced that this game works as a 2 player game.  It seems like it really suffers from a runaway leader problem.  In all 3 games, I got to an early lead and managed to use that lead to boost myself to victory.  With more players, the runaway leader is handled organically as you have more players out to wreck the leaders formation.

Regardless, I did have fun as the core mechanics are interesting.

Aliens: This Time its War
My friend was keen to get this back on the table.  It's one of the rare games where he has a good record against me versus other games where I normally beat him and he probably needed a pick-me-up after I drubbed him in The Agents.  On the other hand, it could just be because this is a fun game.  :)

As before, I played the marines while he took on the xenomorphs.  I managed to get a really strong start in the first game which I was able to use to get the win.  Unfortunately, my friend managed to get revenge in the second game and beat me to even the score at 1:1.

Which was a good time to move onto -

Battle Line
Given that there were only 2 of us, we naturally got Battle Line back on the table.  Definitely one of my favourite games as its a game with simple rules but with amazing strategic depth.  We generally save this game for the end of the day as the mix of heavy thinking required to do well in this game can really wipe you out.

I had a really good draw in the first hand to the extent that I didn't even bother grabbing any tactics cards.  My opening hand in the second game wasn't as good which meant some tough choices as we played through the game.  I still managed to win though.  :)