Yesterday was Steedo’s birthday, so I was asked over to play a game or two. As it was Steedo’s birthday he chose Wingspan.
This is a card placement game where to have to place birds in the right environment, with the right amount of food. So the game is made of 4 rounds. In each round there is scoring for a randomly selected property (at set up) - could be most birds in woods or fields, or type of nest with or without eggs (which are also victory points and a type of currency). There are 3 sections of the board - woods, fields and wetlands. Woods get you food, fields get you eggs and wetlands get you more cards. To place a bird you need food, but once you have placed one you will need eggs as well. The birds have an end of game scoring value and an action which can be either each time they are activated (get another food token or egg) or a one time only (such as place another bird). The birds have a value towards victory points as well. The key part of the game is to get a synergy between what you want to do and the birds you play - this was something I didn’t right right - I played a bird that could repeat the action of another bird, but was then unable to place another bird in the right environment to use this benefit - was then stuffed as I couldn’t place birds as I didn’t have enough food or eggs … quite a learning game. I also got sort of keen to place certain birds, as they were cool (bald and golden eagles). I did not score well on the end of rounds or most of the other metrics for the game - although my birds were worth more than Steedo’s. But the result wasn’t in doubt as he won did win convincingly 72 - 55.
At this point I should have asked for another game of Wingspan, as I had a better idea of how to play. However I thought it would be a good time to have a go a Biltzkrieg - WW2 in twenty minutes.
We managed 3 games of this - there were a few errors on the first game, which Steedo won. The game is a clever token placement game, where you try win campaigns in 5 theatres of war. To win a campaign you play armies or fleets with a value, this moves the red marker towards you side of the theatre tracker - if it is on your side when the last tile is place on the campaign space you get the war points for that campaign. You pick the tiles randomly from a bag - you start with 3 and collect one each turn - however if you have none to place you lose (the bomb symbol space means you take a counter off your opponent). If you can get the red marker to your end place on the theatre track you win the theatre and gain the benefit of any unused spaces and the un scored campaigns - which Steedo did to me without me spotting it in the second game - d’oh. There are ways to research new tech.weapons and to use propaganda to move up the war track. The game always starts with the axis player and when a player gets to 25 on the war track - but if the Axis player does this first the Allies get another turn. A nice little puzzle game.
We played 2 more games once each as the Allies and the Axis - both times Steedo won, well it was his birthday…. I’ve not done very well recently.
Morts
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