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A record of games I have played

Troyes
Date: October 22, 2018
Players: 4
Position: 1
Good classic style euro game. Using a pool of dice and worker placement to build and protect the city of Troyes.



Azul
Date: October 22, 2018
Players: 4
Position: 1
Good, tactile and short tile laying game. Build the best mosaic from a shared pile of tiles.



Topairy
Date: October 15, 2018
Players: 4
Position: 2
Quick little tile laying game. Building a common garden and best placing your vistors to win.



Santorini
Date: October 15, 2018
Players: 2 teams of 2
Position: lost
Good chess style move counter move game. First to the top of this 3rd dimension space is the winner!



Paperback
Date: October 8, 2018
Players: 4
Position: 1
Scrabble crossed with Dominion, as simple as that! Fun if a lot of analysis paralysis...



El Grande
Date: September 4, 2018
Players: 5
Position: 2
Area control game with fixed turns and mid game scoring. Actually quiet straight forward rules but generates a lot of depth and strategy.



1914 Germany at War
Date: September 1, 2018
Players: 2
Position: 2
Excellent diceless block war game. Perfectly captures the tension of the start of WW1. Constant hard decisions and rarely feeling railroaded like in some historical wargames.



Founders of Gloomhaven
Date: August 28, 2018
Players: 4
Position: 2
Action selection / tile laying game. Ok but over complicated. Interesting victory point sharing system.



Adventureland
Date: August 28, 2018
Players: 4
Position: 1
Interesting resource management game. You move your pieces from the top left to the bottom right of the board, collecting resources and fighting monster.



Ra
Date: August 21, 2018
Players: 4
Position: 3
Classic Knize auction game. Less player control and more complex than Modern Art.



Grand Austria Hotel
Date: August 21, 2018
Players: 4
Position: 2
Dice based worker placement. Quite complex, will need more replays to appreciate better.



Battle of Britian
Date: July 22, 2018
Players: 2
Position: 1
Definitely a historical simulator, lot of randomness, very punishing on the Germans and not a lot of choice. Reflective of the historical context.



Twilight Imperium 4e
Date: July 8, 2018
Players: 4
Position: 1
Definite improvement on 3rd edition. Smoother and deeper.



Kingdom Builder
Date: June 3, 2018
Players: 4
Position: 2
Frustrating randomness at times but a lot of fun with interesting choices.



Telestrations
Date: November 24, 2017
Players: 8
Position: 6th
A delightful party game



The Resistence
Date: November 24, 2017
Players: 8
Position: Lost
Not really my type of game.



Eight Minute Empire Legends
Date: November 24, 2017
Players: 4
Position: 2nd
Enjoyable quick and deep game



Mage Knight
Date: October 28, 2017
Players: 4
Position: co-op won
Good but I found it somewhat overly complicated.



Empire Age of Discovery
Date: September 18, 2017
Players: 6
Position: 3rd
very good worker placement/area control game. Lots of interesting mechanics and paths to victory.



Leningrad 41
Date: August 27, 2017
Players: 2
Position: 2
very tense wargame, more interesting then the similar Moscow 41 in my opinion.



Watson and Holmes
Date: August 26, 2017
Players: 3
Position: no one won
An intereting take on a competitive Sherlock Holmes consulting detective. Tense and enjoyable, though unfortunately there is not always a winner.



A Handful of Stars
Date: August 8, 2017
Players: 4
Position: 2
Fun, but a lot of randomness in set up.



Booze Barons
Date: August 5, 2017
Players: 9
Position: 2nd on double tie breaker
Fun but not very deep game



Terra Mystica
Date: August 1, 2017
Players: 4
Position: 3
Good but intense game with lots of moving parts.