Played Apiary on our regular Thursday night game. It’s ok. Too many unnecessary bits added to the game play. Would play to explore the game more but not likely to ask for it. #thursdaygaming

Attended weekend gaming event called LFG Essen Unplugged. Not too many Essen hotness there but still got to try few games. Like Senjutsu tactical battle with card play. It worked well and solo mode looked interesting if I ever play solo. #LFGEssen

Finally got to try Woodcraft. Neat game. I like their design in general and this one worked very well. #LFGEssen

Some more games played on Saturday at #LFGEssen event in Canberra. Not a new hotness but new to me. Clank! Catacomb was good fun, Findorff is typical Friese game. It works, smooth, almost great game but not quite. And planet game with lazy Susan.

On Sunday we actually got to play some new games. First in Flight, the White Castle and Sail. First in flight was neat push your luck game. It was fun but not sure about replay ability. White Castle was fun but felt so short and restraining. Sail was great coop trick taker #LFG

Good to get some 18XX play done while currently in Brisbane! Thank you to XB for organizing this gathering. And I got to play two games 18NewEngland and 1882. Nice day and pretty relaxing plays. 18NewEngland had some interesting idea and glad to play it finally #18xx

Played 21Moon with 3. I’ve played this few times during play testing and it has changed significantly since picked up by All-Aboard Games. Quick 18XX with few levers you can use. Companies has their own stock rounds which they can issue/sell and buy share. Nice job! @JonasJo71983114

Some great trick taking and card games played during Siege 2024. Tricktakers Kings, ghost of Christmas and game of the con Ito to name few😆

First game at annual Shingocon after bordercon is Churchill as e only has three players today. Interesting game. Learning as we played. Won by coming in second as Roosevelt.

Second game Weimar on day 2!! #shingocon

Ended at the end of third round when communist Rob Schutz took over Germany. Nationalist Ulukai nearly won turn earlier by missing out on outright majority in the parliament by 1. Interesting game and glad to finally played it!! @MatthiasCramer1 another great game!! #shingocon

NokosuDice and Ghost of Christmas to end the second day!! #shingocon

#shingocon day 3 started with Dominant Species after about 10 years of not playing.

Quick games of Bridges of Shangri-la and Schadenfreud to start the day 4 of #shingocon with XB and Ulukai Unfortunately Miguel had to leave early.

Next game for today is 18SJ #shingocon

Finished with double nationalization and bankruptcy. Nice crunchy game with relatively simple rule set. But enough interesting thing going on. With random privates. #18xx #shingocon

Getting ready for the last game of #shingocon 1832.

Finished the last day of #shingocon with this great game! System is really interesting and has a little similarities to 1870 which I was familiar with so relatively easy to learn. Lots of quirks though still. Was wonderful week of gaming with these guys!