Villagers and Villains, Transamerica
At the game store, looking around. There weren't a lot of people, the move of board game night has really thinned the crowd. So I played with the people who showed up. There was a game called Villagers and Villains, and I didn't like it! It was a really simple tableau game, in which you receive the card you get each turn at semi-random, and you just have to pay to put cards into play. Occasionally you'll get stuck with a challenge, which you will have to defeat in order to avoid taking a penalty by rolling a single die. Whoopie. It was really simple, and for some reason we weren't playing with the advanced rules, which would have added the text on the card to add some variety, which confused me because the game was not that hard to figure out. But it was quick at least.
Also played a game of Transamerica, which was alright! I hadn't actually played this, but the semi cooperative nature is interesting. People are trying to connect five cities across the nation. Everyone starts by building tracks out of their central hub, but eventually every's hub will be connected, meaning anyone can build anywhere. It happens fast, and the moments where you are hanging on hoping that nobody finishes their build before you do is nice a tense. Everyone who didn't connect their cities lost points, and you start again. Apparently I was the only one to notice the rule that limited play to only three rounds, apparently people had been playing games that lasted five or six rounds, which would get old fast in my opinion.
At the game store, looking around. There weren't a lot of people, the move of board game night has really thinned the crowd. So I played with the people who showed up. There was a game called Villagers and Villains, and I didn't like it! It was a really simple tableau game, in which you receive the card you get each turn at semi-random, and you just have to pay to put cards into play. Occasionally you'll get stuck with a challenge, which you will have to defeat in order to avoid taking a penalty by rolling a single die. Whoopie. It was really simple, and for some reason we weren't playing with the advanced rules, which would have added the text on the card to add some variety, which confused me because the game was not that hard to figure out. But it was quick at least.
Also played a game of Transamerica, which was alright! I hadn't actually played this, but the semi cooperative nature is interesting. People are trying to connect five cities across the nation. Everyone starts by building tracks out of their central hub, but eventually every's hub will be connected, meaning anyone can build anywhere. It happens fast, and the moments where you are hanging on hoping that nobody finishes their build before you do is nice a tense. Everyone who didn't connect their cities lost points, and you start again. Apparently I was the only one to notice the rule that limited play to only three rounds, apparently people had been playing games that lasted five or six rounds, which would get old fast in my opinion.
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