Just checking in. It’s been more than a couple of days since the last post. So I thought I’d put up a still here post.

Yesterday I teased folks and my friends I’m actually playing the game with, with a “current state of play” screen shot of my reserve.

I can now reveal one of those blurred out birds from yesterday’s tease. Mainly because I played it this morning. Naturally my other cards are blurred out.

Yep I’ve played a Raven. It was in my starting hand. But I needed to get another bird out before hand so I can start making use of it. I also need ideally some sort of tucking cards thing going on. Round one for me has been about setting this up and some sort of engine around it. The following rounds are all about exploiting this little engine and making it more powerful.

This current game is making good use of the 24 hour time limit to take a turn. Don’t get me wrong I enjoy playing Wingspan with friends when we are all online at the same time and play is more or less real time, and banter etc is happening via a discord channel or messenger.

However that’s not convenient for everyone. So that we could include one of our friends in a game we started one with everyone playing committing to check in and take their turn once a day. I’m usually checking in to see if it’s my turn three times a day. Game play is naturally slower, but it’s inclusive. Although having to wait so long to drop the raven on everyone was excruciating.

I made the mistake yesterday of putting the The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild (BotW) card into my Switch yesterday. The thinking was I’d get any updates installed so it’s ready when I get round to it.

However no updates were needed! And it went straight into the game. Several hours later.

BotW is a beautiful game. Nay stunning. So easy to get lost in it.

So instead of working on the alien stuff for Last Days or updating the triffids based on further feedback, I was exploring the high plateau on Hyrule.

But I do need to get back to this stuff. I now have some of the Aliens Another Glorious Day in the Corp models on the way. Plus I’m toying with the idea of basing the terrain on Hadley’s Hope. I do have a map of it from the Alien RPG. It’s just working out the best way to recreate it at an affordable cost.

Oh the post title? The later is the message I was expecting Jonathan to post once he saw I’d played a raven.