Last night it was that time once again for a Friday night gaming session. For the second time we were once more graciously hosted for this session by the wonderful The Luxe Cinema.
Our evenings gaming started off with a new game that Jonathan bought at this years UKGE but hadn’t got to the table yet, called Road Hog: Rule the Road.
On the whole production wise the components are pretty high quality really. The only slight negative would be the flimsy cards. The game tiles for the track are really pimped out. They have a rubber backing! No need for a play mat here. There was one issue with the cards with what turned out to be two cards stuck together. When separating them there was a little damage that left the back of one marked. Not cool. Solved by sleeving. But replacements needed really from the manufacturer.
Luck plays a large part in the game from the roll of the two dice, to the cards that you get. For some this luck element may be a turn off. In our game it worked in my favour.
There is also a big take that element. Which also for some is a major switch off. Once again something I’m ok with. In our game it was more a one against many. Me against the rest. Mainly because I was the one in the lead for the majority of the game. For example I was getting boxed in my the traffic in an effort to slow me down, and even stop me. But luckily I had the cards and dice rolls that mitigated this and allowed me to escape the traps.
There is a lot of variability potentially between games with the unique placement of cars and trucks during setup that players will then need to negotiate during the game, plus which tiles that you use.
We could have used a longer track. But for the type of game that this is, it felt about right with the 6 or 7 tiles that we used. Anything that was longer I think would have been too long play wise and warn out its welcome. It is a light game. But still a fun experience. And I’m not just saying that because I won it comfortably.
As you can see I’ve tried experimenting with my camera angles for photos during gaming sessions. I quite like the results.
Our second game of the evening was a return to the table for King of Tokyo. I think the last time I played this was with some students a couple years back. I think, apart from a couple of promo characters I have everything for this. I just need to merge back in to the second edition the 2 characters that were left out from the first edition. We played just the vanilla version of the game, no power ups. Well we were playing with 2 new players to the game. Although to be fair, we could probably have played with them. They aren’t that much of an overhead to learn. Jess narrowly won by being the last monster standing.
Our final game of the evening was the classic Perudo/Liars Dice. Yeah a club favourite, and a great way to end a great evening of gaming. Somehow Jonathan won without losing a single die.
We had a great evening, great selection of beverages and great hosts with The Luxe.