After another long week of travel, I was determined to spend as many waking hours
over the weekend with Julie, Jacob, and Matthew. On Saturday, Julie and Jacob
had a Cub Scout outing for the morning and early afternoon. Matthew and I did
some Christmas shopping, had lunch and Matthew's favorite fast food joint (Arby's),
then came home for some fun one-on-one time. We opened up the game closet to
see what we should play - we both agreed that Battlecards would
be a great two-player game to idle away the afternoon.
I own each of the expansions for this game except for the newly released North
African Campaign. I wrote a review
of the first product back in March.
This game was very one-sided, with me on top for the entire game. In fact, we
didn't even finish the game since it was clear I would prevail. The Pacific
expansion is different in that most of the battles have Pearl Harbor as a pre-requisite.
This potentially leads to quite a bit of buildup before the first battle. Unfortunately
for Matthew, I drew most of the military buildup cards. This just shouldn't
happen - there's a decent distribution of these cards, so I don't think this is a
flaw in the game.
Jacob arrived and saw the tail end of my game with Matthew, so we went to battle on
the eastern front. Similar result this time - I ended up winning every battle
and achieving the victory condition of > 1/2 available victory points. Even
though these games were one-sided, I still really enjoy playing this game.
Julie, Matthew, and I played an abbreviated game of Can't Stop before bed time.
This has become one our light favorites - very often when I come home from work I
learn that Julie has played this with the boys after coming home from school.
I won with an amazing string of high rolls on the 10 and 11 tracks.
