16/9 - Malaysia Day. Public holiday. Also, new BGC/OTK (OTK Cheras ) opening day!
Jacelyn and I have been looking forward to attend this event since we heard about it. We used to play with peeps from boardgamecafe at Old Town White Coffee in Cheras on fridays every once a while, and we're excited to hear that they'll be moving the gaming event to their new place- next door! (3 minutes' walk away).
I was so excited that I couldn't sleep the night before!Yes it's totally not
related to the fact that we had a farewell party/stayover at my friend's house
the night before which ended at 7.30am.
Jacelyn and I have been looking forward to attend this event since we heard about it. We used to play with peeps from boardgamecafe at Old Town White Coffee in Cheras on fridays every once a while, and we're excited to hear that they'll be moving the gaming event to their new place- next door! (3 minutes' walk away).
I was so excited that I couldn't sleep the night before!
We arrived shortly after lunch time
but we couldn't find the shop as there yet to be any signboard and I forgot the
address. Luckily Kareem was there to save us hehe.
JC: Initially, both Jun Yet and I were like "Aww man...!! We'll miss the Open Day!" because we thought the open day was on the 9th of September but still the boardgaming kids beat us to it =P!
JC: Initially, both Jun Yet and I were like "Aww man...!! We'll miss the Open Day!" because we thought the open day was on the 9th of September but still the boardgaming kids beat us to it =P!
Game #1: Modern Art
Modern
Art was recommended by someone - we quickly set it up and had a quick game (and
later bought it :P)
Basically it's an auction game, where
players auction off paintings of different artists, trying to buy paintings at
a lower price than the predicted price for the painting. It has quite a few
very neat mechanics, and I certainly had lots of fun playing with it hehe.
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Krypto's paintings going at 150k!
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really liked the game because I won of the player interaction, the
suspense and how the market goes. One moment you think this painting is worth
this price, another round later you realize that you overpaid for it!
JC: It's really hard to see which painting you should pay more for because even though I had lots of Krypto's, I did not have any of those double auction cards so in just one round, another painting can just suddenly be the most wanted one!
Both Jun Yet and I definitely enjoyed this game and seeing there was the opening sales of 30%, we quickly brought it home as a part of our collection =)! We sleeved them and soon we'll get to play them =D!
JC: It's really hard to see which painting you should pay more for because even though I had lots of Krypto's, I did not have any of those double auction cards so in just one round, another painting can just suddenly be the most wanted one!
Both Jun Yet and I definitely enjoyed this game and seeing there was the opening sales of 30%, we quickly brought it home as a part of our collection =)! We sleeved them and soon we'll get to play them =D!
Game #2:
Eaten by Zombies
Special thanks to Kareem for
bringing his copy of the game. The poor guy didn't even get to play it before
this! Heard his gaming group aren't a fan of the theme. But anyways we're among
the first in Malaysia to play this game hehe.
Jacelyn and I started the Kickstarter thread for this game on the forum and we managed to get quite a good deal for this game but the kickstarter has already ended. If you'd like a copy of this game, I suspect BGC will stock in some soon.
JC: Kareem also introduced Eaten by Zombies to all of us from BGC and thanks to Kareem, 12 copies of Eaten by Zombies are coming soon!!
Jacelyn and I started the Kickstarter thread for this game on the forum and we managed to get quite a good deal for this game but the kickstarter has already ended. If you'd like a copy of this game, I suspect BGC will stock in some soon.
JC: Kareem also introduced Eaten by Zombies to all of us from BGC and thanks to Kareem, 12 copies of Eaten by Zombies are coming soon!!
Picking up the initial swags. |
Kareem has the 40th copy of the game. The first batch are numbered. |
Ainul joined us for the game, and he quickly turned into a zombie player... Thanks to us :P
"not my fault!" |
The amount of zombies piled up in the later rounds of the game and it became almost impossible to fend them off! You cant kill them all, you cant outrun them too!
I died and joined the zombies.
Zombies (me and Ainul) won though hahahha.
The game was quite tense towards the end as Zharif and Jeremy were the only survivors and they almost won the game by killing all the zombies in the zombie deck! But in the last turn Jeremy drew a hand of zombie cards, which meant that the humans' mind were overwhelmed by the zombie outbreak.
JC: This game kept me in suspense every round! You'll never know what kind of zombie would be hunting you down and you'll never know what you would draw in your hand which would determine whether you could outrun or kill the zombies.
I thought we might've done better if everyone just kept some zombie cards in their hands to share the load but it seems more fun to just unleash the zombies to your fellow friends =P!!
All in all, absolutely fun but definitely hard!
Game #3 - Cargo Noir
Smugglers. Collect goods via bidding and exchange them for victory point cards :D
Quite an interesting game, and Kareem the bully was playing too :P
SO CUTE!! |
The player mat adds some flavor to the game. This was Kareem's guy, hiding alcohols in his warehouse. My guy was a Chinese guy :D
Game #4 - Samurai
Knizia's classic, I heard. Players take turns to lay tiles around a monument to collect the monument if your tiles have the most influence on it. There are three types: buddha, pau, and sticky (no idea what their real name is). I think it's interesting how the victory points are calculated. A player is only eligible to win if he has the most of one monument type among the players, and only each other type of monuments you have will contribute to your points. So you'll need to watch out what people are collecting and also balance out your monument collection. If you have 5 buddha, 1 pau and 1 sticky, and you have the most buddha at the end of the game, you are eligible to win, but you only get 2 points in the end (1 pau and 1 sticky). The tricky thing is that you NEED to have a majority share of one monument among all the players to quality for the winning condition, otherwise you dont even get to count your points :O
Setting up the game, we were super blur cos the rule is in German. |
Again, SO CUTEEEEE! Cant see his face here though. |
JC: Haha!
I had loads of fun during this game! Jun Yet and Jeremy was battling it
out to get the pieces up there whereas Zharif and I just did our own
thing at our little corners.
At the end, I realized that it was most rewarding to fight it out since all you need is to have a majority of the number in the tile to get the pieces up there so sometimes Jun Yet does all the hard work and Jeremy just gets it like that or Jeremy does all the hard work and Jun Yet manages to get it instead.
Other games:
At the end, I realized that it was most rewarding to fight it out since all you need is to have a majority of the number in the tile to get the pieces up there so sometimes Jun Yet does all the hard work and Jeremy just gets it like that or Jeremy does all the hard work and Jun Yet manages to get it instead.
Other games:
Survive! Escape from Atlantis |
I have yet to give this game a try, it looks like a really cool game!
Troyes |
JC: Haha! I kept obtaining those black cards at the lower part of the board and raised suspicion that I might have the card that gives VP's for black cards but actually, I had the card that gives VP's for having most money =P! I lost but I had loads of fun buying awesome dice rolls by Peter =P! Peter always gets 6's.
Emil's laugh - classic. :D |
18xx |
Spot our name! |
Will definitely visit here often after exams hehe. There's even a picture of us on the wall!
No Kidding :P |
It's quite a cool place- the owner, CK moved quite a number of games in his collection to the new shop. There's even a copy of Space Hulk 3rd edition *drools*. And there were so many games on display for sale! Not good for impulsive people :P
Quick shoutout especially to monash ppl - boardgamecafe is having a promo, you get 20% discount on games during your first visit there! Check their page out!
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