Jeffro’s Car Wars Blog

This past weekend I stayed up until 3 playing games– can’t remember really doing this since I was in highschool…!

I opened up the afternoon with a couple of games of Ogre. My opponent charged straight in with the Ogre and took out my CP– then he died a couple of turns later. As the defense, he bought 2 howitzers and then broke his units into 3 seperate waves. My Ogre rolled over them as if they were speed bumps. (Yep… defense is a lot harder for new players….) No enemy units survived.

The rest of the crowd showed up after supper… and we got the women-folk to join in. We played two games of Chez-Geek. I didn’t really care for this game– it’s just a little bit too off-color and dumbed down for my tastes. The game really does capture the atmosphere of college life though…. The most irritating thing about the game is that it’s a pain to keep track of who’s in the lead.

After that, we broke out a game called Citadels. This is a Rummy-like card-game with layers of jedi mind-tricks and betrayal added in. It’s cute little game that manages to have depth without getting into complex rules and game mechanics.

The final game we played was the original Illuminati. Several times I had to announce that this was the coolest game I’d ever played. Its just soooo neat! I was one of the first groups to get attacked…. I had almost no cards in my power structure! When my turn came around again, I announced a Neutralize attack against the most powerful player. I wouldn’t get anything out of it and the other players would get first dibs on the wreckage– all they needed to do was make a small donation…. Heh heh heh. Revenge is sweet. (This is only about 300 times more fun than trading properties in Monopoly. What a devious game!!)