Week 22: The Terraforming Fail

by Isra C.

Tuesday

Some days are for work, some days are for joy. This one was for the both.
First we started to put in common all the fresh ideas we get from the testing sessions the past Saturday. With these tweaks and changes, we close the version for our publisher and we can have prototype-vacations (haha, no, that's impossible).

These are the final touches of the game and it's in Meridiano 6's hands for testing. Cannot wait!!

Beer is for... erhm.. scale.

Despite of being tired after put together all of our ideas for the The Red Cathedral's guilds, we played one game that we didn't remember that it was soooo good: K2

This game is a case of "Games that we played long time ago, we remember that it was good, but we do not remember how to play, and reading a manual that I read long time ago gives us pure sloth"

Awesome game, extremely easy to play but meaty enough to keep everyone in the game.

Wednesday

Hype is a desease. For real. This day Terraforming Marswas released in Spain and we had to preordered on Tuesday and picked up today.Damn you hype! But ALSO played today (only the chosen ones are played in the same day that are bought). I cannot say anything more than "all the hype is worth". It is an awesome game. It doesn't have any new mechanic or something that you say "woah! that's new" but EVERYTHING is awesome in there.

But, we played the most cheated game of Terraforming Mars ever: Our generations was:

-Begin
-2 actions Shei
-2 actions me
-End and production.

As you can expect, we were plenty of coins, resources, cards and everything hahhahahha.

Resource bonanza!

Friday

Another game of Terraforming Mars but properly played this time. Awesome. There are too many reviews there, I cannot add nothing more to them. Go get this game and play it. Yes, the production is inconsistent and has some things really great and other really poor, but it worth it. By the way, Shei won the both times and it could be another "Vinhos or Grand Austria Hotel" case here. Shame on me.

Saturday

Today we planned to play a lot of games but we had a really busy day and the only thing (I said "only" but it was 2h of game!) was Le Havre that we bought at Club DA2 second handed. We play a full game of 2 players and it was really good. Not my Uwe's favourite, because it seemed to me a little bit repetitive, but anyway, it's nice to play. The next time we'll play the short version to see how it is.

Sunday

Big, big day here. Finally we play something that we really wanted to play since we're in the games hobby: Through the Ages: A New Story of Civilization (Well, we wanted to play the old one, but since there is a new version... )

LONG AS HELL. More or less ~6h between explanation and play a full game of 4 players. I loved it so much (and I won because everyone in the game was practically novice). I'd prefer a game of Nations because it gives me the same feeling like TtA with 3 less hours of game time.

It's not for me, but I'd never turn down a game.

The tablecloth was not included in the box.

See you next week! We played no so many games but all of them was awesome!

PS: As always, please feel free of correcting my grammar mistakes :)