Boardgame Session; February 2021

In early in February we returned to a couple of familiar favourites; Carcassonne and Ticket to Ride-Europe. These are games we can take off the shelf and play with no preparatory revision or thought. They are comfortable classics, always enjoyed, always rewarding and I cannot imagine a game collection without them. We then returned to Mariposas which was discussed in last month’s post. I remain curious to see how it will work with more players, and I still would like some more player interaction (I have a couple of house-rule ideas which I may try in the future). The last couple of weeks of the month were devoted to more ‘competitive’, brain-taxing games. Targi provides a great challenge and the streamlined mechanics just work so smoothly. This is one of our best loved games, but strangely the new Targi-Expansion game has not grabbed our attention as much as I expected. I’m not sure why this is? Maybe it is time to get this ‘new’ game to the table and give it another try? The final game of the month was Glen More II. Another wonderful game that Elaine particularly likes (and frequently wins). We are still at the stage where the base game satisfies our needs, and the additional chronicles are not used. There are still a few chronicles we have not played (Hammer of the Scots, and Penny Mobs) but these can wait until we can socialise and expand our playing group. That was February. The vaccine is coming and lockdown slowly easing, so there is light on the horizon and wider gaming may return.