Game Night! - 4 March 2016

Game Night!

Just 2 people this time so we started with one of our favourite 2 player games.

Battle Line
We actually wanted to start with Battle Line as my friend struggles to beat me at this game.  Granted, that makes me sound really horrible but hopefully, a little context will make things clearer!

I played the first game with an open hand and talked through my thought process as I played through the game.  Primarily, this was to let my friend see how I played the game so he could try and pick up some tips to try and beat me.  Unf, I don't think it helped him much as after winning that game, we played 2 more with closed hands (ie normally) and I promptly beat him twice.
:D

Aliens: This Time its War
After the despair of defeat, my friend wanted to revisit one of his favourites.  Primarily as he believes the Aliens player has the advantage in this game as he has managed to win using the Aliens several times.  The reality is that, while the game isn't perfectly balanced, it is balanced much better than my friend realises.  In case that statement isn't obvious - I won.  Twice.
:D

Star Realms
I don't actually have this game in a physical format but only have the app.  I recently introduced it to my friend and we took this opportunity for me to teach him the basic strategy to playing the game.

After introducing the concepts to him, I showed him a game against the AI.  After this - we naturally had a game one on one.  I naturally won as it was effectively his first game.  Either way, hopefully, he picked up enough of the basic strategy to get started and we can have a more challenging game at some point in the future.