Game Night Light 20

Monday was the weekly beer exchange and game night.

The game of choice is one some of us remember from a previous company in a different graphical format. If you played in Pat's World War II campaign game (well, really a complicated system to generate naval and air battles) way back in the day, you played Air Force.

And the beer exchange:

We played a simple two fighter versus two fighter sweep. Early model Me-109s and Spitfires.

Just the basic rules to keep it simple. But the concepts and rules came back fairly quickly. 

And the game is certainly much better than the Richthofen's War played earlier.

There are a couple rules on half-loops and disadvantaged aircraft that we need to clarify. But the way we played them made sense in the latter case and in the former both of us fulfilled what we think is the prerequisite unintentionally. But we wonder if it is required.

The game does take a while. We did not finish with a winner before the game night time limit. But it is fun and we moved along pretty quickly as the night went on.

I really like these weekly game nights for hauling out little-used games or new games. 

And it is good to exercise brain paths long-unused but heavily used when I was in high school--reading rules and using them to play sometimes complicated games. Playing simpler games or even computer-driven games has left that skill atrophied to some extent. Heck, we experienced that playing Catan online and had to remember basic rules again (sorry, Tony, that victory point card issue hurt to see ...).

Anyway, a fun evening of new beers and an unfamiliar game revived from the dead.