To be honest, when I started my 52 Games project I wasn't sure exactly how it would pan out. But in reality it seems to be going just the way it ought to. So far I have played 22 different games since the start of the year which looks impressive but has to take into account that, at the moment, a lot of games I play this year I will be playing for the first time. A perusal of the list, however, will show that I have already included a few of my regular games - HOTT, Love Letter, DBA - so from now on no matter how many of those I play again this year, they won't count.
There have been fewer miniatures rules so far than I thought I might have had. Part of that is probably down to my lack of drive and inspiration at present. I'm hoping that the gradual resumption of regular club gaming will kick-start that, and see me getting a few more games on the table. Against that, our move to trying to play more boardgames as a family is helping increase their total. Some of them are fairly light and trivial games, but they are still games.
I did include a couple of borderline cases - I wasn't sure about adding darts, for example, but I did (and we're still playing regularly, keeping track of wins as well, so we'll have a family champion at the end of the year). And the live murder mystery scavenger hunt we did in January is something of a borderline case as well. I have chosen to exclude a couple of things. Firstly we have been bitten by the Wordle bug, but I'm not including either that or the arithmetic Nerdle. And neither am I including Duolingo (I'm learning Indonesian) despite its league table system promoting a hefty degree of competitive behaviour in terms of completing lessons for points.
Anyway, as we start March I have 30 games left to do, which averages out at a nice three games per month. I'll do another update in a couple of months and we'll see how things are going then.
Good luck with the quest !! Should produce some intriguing games, and is already entertaining, from this viewer’s p.o.v..
ReplyDelete[Thought. - Would a run through of one of the ‘other’ Portable Wargames pike n shot games by other authors be worth a go, as you have the figures and table/cloth for it??…or a BBDBA?].
Cheers
Martin
This does open up the question of what counts as a 'game'. I've classed the 3 x 3 Portable Wargame as its own game because I think the format is radically different enough from the original to do so. But I would probably consider any of the conventional 8x8 versions as one game. And haven't, this far, played one :)
DeleteThe same would hold true for BBDBA - I would class it as the same game as DBA.
Aha…not taking the easiest path 🙃.
ReplyDeleteLike the 6mm DBA - great mass effect. Unusual to see the Meroitics in action…a good army, with a potentially deadly general’s element. And yes, Steppe always comes as a surprise, but might be realistic, I guess…I think the Nubians get the same topography, a millennium earlier.