It must have been a few months since I last bought a board game. The last one was Lord of the Rings LCG: The Two Towers Saga Expansion back in August, so I am well over-due.
It is good for me to slow down on these purchases anyway. I am really only interested in completing some of the Living Card Games from Fantasy Flight Games for now. That includes Arkham Horror, The Lord of the Rings, and Marvel Champions.
However those games are also extremely time consuming (well, Marvel Champions isn’t, I suppose) and nobody I know IRL wants to play them, so they are very much a solo gaming experience for me. Which is, you know…
I did actually start a new playthrough of Arkham Horror the other day, but as of right now I have only started the first scenario of the Night of the Zealot campaign. I played about 70% of the second scenario too, but I realised way too late, in round eight or something, that I had done the deck-building wrong for Daisy. I had included some scenario-specific cards from the Dunwich Legacy cycle. What a fool!
So I had to scrap the whole scenario, which was a good few hours worth of playing. I should have paid more attention to the deckbuilding rules. Oh well. The trouble is the enthusiasm for playing has left me for now.
In the meantime I have revisited a game that I was interested in buying a few months ago but was torn between a few different games. I made the very poor choice of buying Sleeping Gods, which I found to be very much not my thing.
But anyway, the reason I am writing this1 is because I have bought Heat: Pedal to the Metal!
Zoom zoom etc.
Looking forward to this one. It hasn’t arrived but I have played vicariously through various YouTube solo playthroughs.
But, yeah, I also really do need to sit down and get back into my Fantasy Flight Games LCGs. I haven’t played more than two games of Lord of the Rings, maybe four games of Arkham Horror, and possibly ten games of Marvel Champions.
It’s not because I don’t enjoy them, because I do, a lot. They just require such a time investment. I’ll need to:
- Review the cards as they are probably all out of order
- Relearn the rules as it’s been too long since I last played to remember them
- Create a deck or two to play with (probably by just picking pre-made ones but that also requires some thinking)
- Finish sleeving the cards
- Set up the game before-hand
- Tidy away the game after I’m done
Somewhere in that list is the part where I am actually supposed to play the gotdam thing2.
Heat, on the other hand, shouldn’t be anywhere near such a time investment upfront. That, and Obsession, which I played again recently and was reminded that, actually, it is a great game too, with a good solo mode.
Well, it’s nearly 8.30pm on a Sunday, now that I’ve finished writing about nothing to no one, I am late for being depressed about work.
See you next time!
3rd November 2024
