Day Four of Origins

Day four of Origins is a wrap for us. We played several new games today. First up was Lords of Vegas. This was a great game with a lot of interesting mechanics that are not present in the rest of our collection. I'll detail game play later but suffice it to say, we used one of our 50% off Mayfair coupons on this one.

Next up, after an amazingly long wait, was the Settlers of Catan dice game. Not a bad game and one I enjoy playing on occasion on their website but fir us really it was a way to try a new game and get the Clay ribbon we needed to complete our quests to become Knights of Catan. Thanks to Mayfair for running this fun promotion again this year. It is always at the head of our to do list for Origins.

On the way to the board room we stopped and played the deck building game, Ascension. We both liked this game, especially Lissa, and we plan to grab this on our way out tomorrow.

In the board room we checked Word on the Street out from the CABS library. I expected to enjoy thus one and after playing it I hope to grab a copy tomorrow as well.

Also, thanks to Rio Grande Games we each were given a free game for being in the board room. I received Asteroyds and Lissa got Loch Ness. We look forward to trying these out.

Over the next week or so I intend to flesh out these posts and add some links and pics and the like. Stay tuned.


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Origins 2010 Recap

Lissa, Jeff and I had a great Origins. We picked up a ton of games and minis and played lots of games. Most of our time we spent playing board and card games and earning our “Knights of Catan” ribbons.

The Mayfair folks had a Microsoft Surface table there running Settlers of Catan. It is a nice port but it is still in beta and there are a few things that need to be worked out before it is ready to go and the $12,000 price of the system means that we will all have to save our pennies for a while. Other Mayfair Games games that we played included “Hey That’s my Fish,” “Station Master,” “Modern Art,” “Settlers of Catan” on a large 3-d board, and some sheep game that had cute pieces and a couple of nice mechanics but the demo was poorly ran. We also demoed a game that we had been meaning to play for a while but had never gotten around to trying – “Fluxx” by Looney Labs. This was a really neat game where each card can change the rules of the game.

Our purchases were a bit more focused this year as we went in with a list ahead of time. We picked up a bunch of board/card games including Carcassonne, Munchkin, Martian Fluxx, Station Master, and a bunch more. Minis-wise we picked up a bunch of figs to flesh out our western and swashbuckling games from Reaper Miniatures and some new packs from Rebel Minis and Splintered Light Miniatures. I also picked up several rulesets from Two Hour Wargames. Jeff is now a dedicated Mayfair Games fanboy and picked up several of their games and an archaeology based game from Queen Games. Finally, I picked up my friend Jack Shaw’s western collection – buildings and figs.

This was a really relaxed con for us and it could not have been better timed. For once we neither pre-registered for a ton of games nor did we spend a huge chunk of time involved in tourneys (however fun they are).