Guys Game Night #2

Thursday was my second attempt at getting together a guys game night with my friends Pat & Alex. Though the first one was fun too, it was brought down by the main game of the night being incredibly boring. It's called Britannia and the gameplay follows the 1000 year struggle for control of Britain by several different warring factions. The big problem was it felt like the game was being played out in real time. Alex fell asleep, poor decisions were made and the game had to be called out of mercy.



This time was much better. I picked up a brand new game for the occasion, Puerto Rico. It is a fast paced, easy to learn but highly strategic game that I've been wanting to play for a while. Despite appearing otherwise, Alex came out with the surprise win in the end as he made some smart choice that neither Pat or I did anything to stop.

The most intense game of the night was Red November. This is a cooperative game about a bunch of gnomes working together to save their sub when it is constantly on the verge of collapse. The game finally beat us in a spectacular scene when my gnome got super drunk and fixed the engine at the very last second before it was going to blow only then for us all to be drowned in the next moment when the room we were all standing in flooded with high water, sealing our watery doom.

jwotd: gensen = nuclear submarine