Sunday was a day off, and I was lucky enough to be able to do some gaming with Jeff.

We started off our afternoon of gaming with attempting to stop the machinations of Ultron in Marvel Champions.

That morning I had went through the heroes making sure they were all at their original deck list, so we could pick any character and just play.

For this battle of brawn and wits Jeff played Tony Stark/Iron Man, and I played Stephen Strange/Doctor Strange.

It all started off so well. Then Ultron went. Before I knew it Strange was down to four life, drone minions were massing in front of him. The only one that managed to land any damage on Ultron was Iron Man.

The drone minions, not getting a chance to reduce the threat tokens. We just got overwhelmed with the drone minions and unable to keep on top of them.

Using that wondrous and miraculous tool of hindsight we both came to the conclusion that our choice of heroes possibly weren’t the best for going up against Ultron.

I looked at the She-Hulk deck (not made up because the aggro cards were in use in the Iron Man deck) and she along with Captain Marvel might have been better choices for going up against Ultron.

After Ultron royally kicked our butts I introduced Jeff to Smitten.

We played three games back to back. Games that got shorter and shorter as we did worse and worse!

But boy does Smitten have that just one more game thing going for it.

Our final game of the afternoon was a game very few people have ever played, Camels Ordinarily Sit Down Carefully.

Apparently I knew the games designer! It was Jeff.

If you can get over Jeff’s use of penny sleeves, Camels for short isn’t a bad game.

Obviously as a prototype some of my feedback such as the graphic design of the cards, iconography (needs it) were quality of life things that don’t affect gameplay.

However one or two, such as having more interaction between cards so you can do combos, more random event cards, even introducing mulligans, or adjusting counters based on player count, are suggestions that do affect game play.

It’s nice that like Streets of Commonville (I think fitting up the designers in game persona for the crime a win) I can boast I’ve beaten the games designer at their own game.

I had a great afternoon playing games with my friend. I’m glad Jeff was able to make it.