Live session at N-BGC and several games at yucata.de.
We began the live session with five player Big Five which worked surprisingly well with five for a maximum 4 player game. If you’ve played Qwikle you pretty much know what’s going on in this game except the fact that Big Five is playd with cards. It’s definitely not the best game Reiner Knizia has designed but it’s definitely not bad either and with five players game took less time than with less players.
Second game of the evening was Kings of Air and Steam which I got couple days earlier. This is a game which was in works for a long time after successfully pledging funds at Kickstarter. We had a 10 people pledge and I forgot many times that I had participated in such a Kickstarter because it took so long for the project to complete.
Kings of Air and Steam is a pickup and deliver game with two difficulty settings, basic game and standard game. We played with basic rules and I enjoyed the game. What you try to do is to move resources to cities which demand them and generate money in the process. Graphic design of the game was very good and I liked the stream lined way in which game plays. There seemed to be several ways to fight for the win and none of the strategies seemed to be over powered at least based in the first play. Kings of Air and Steam is a game which I suggest if you can find it and I hope it’s going to hit the table sooner than later.
All in all a good week of gaming and I’m pretty confident that Easter does good for my gaming life (and personal life as well even if it’s outside the scope of this blog).
