Last night although technically the second Wednesday of the month was not the monthly meet up.
That was last week. Or would have been if enough people had said they were coming along to it. Sadly due to working that night (I was working 10pm to 10am doing stock take) I wasn’t able to attend. So it was cancelled.
However I was back to having Thursday as my day off this week. So at the weekend I created an event to see who was up for playing some games last night.
The numbers were looking pretty good. But life likes to through challenges in our way, and one or two had to drop out on the day. Still we had six people turn up. Which is pretty decent.
We split into two groups of three. The group I was in played Lost Ruins of Arnak with the “new” Expedition Leaders expansion. Whilst the other group played Stone Age.
We played with the three leaders that the rules said were the easiest to play. Who had which of those leaders was decided randomly.
I have to say I like Arnak much more now with the leaders. I love the unique ability/power each person has. Each player has a unique starting deck. You are trying to play to your leaders strengths. Which for mine was buying the item cards and playing them.
For me this should have been in the base game. Not sure I’d play the game without the leaders now.
Naturally the expansion adds more cards, ruins, guardians, etc. which is always welcome. Plus there is a new double sided research (I think that’s what’s it called) board that overlays the one on the main board. More variety. Never a bad thing.
Has this expansion given Lost Ruins of Arnak the edge over Dune Imperium? No. It’s closed the gap (until the Dune Imperium expansion comes out). There were five ruins explored this game (a first for one I’ve played). But it still felt like it was a race up the research track. Plus although I do really love how the game handles buying cards and having them go to the bottom of your deck. Deckbuilding still feels very tacked on.
Anyway Marcin kicked ass and romped away with the victory. As you can see I didn’t even get close.
Meanwhile the other table were playing the classic worker placement game Stone Age.
What would one of these posts be with out Jonathan’s photos?
