Two-sday

An unusually quiet Tuesday evening saw just two gamers present. I (Ian) made the short walk to Martins for an evening of two players.

We started off with Rebirth, on the Scottish map. 

This recent Knizia works well with two players, which sees a number of spaces blocked off to reduce the player area. Martin managed to build a fairly large Energy Farm that scored big points repeatedly, and despite picking up more personal missions (or maybe because of, as my attention may have been more on reaching those targets than the state of the board) landed in a comfortable victory.



Martin 196

Ian 176

Next, we played Chu Han. We used the event deck, and after the “no-effect” event was drawn a couple of times, we opted to ignore fate and draw a new event. There was an event neither of us had encountered before, Mandate of Heaven (I think it was called), which allowed the player passing to draw from that trick, which gave the hand an interesting twist.



Martin pulled into a lead early (helped by me deciding to use the “pass to take lead” card a few times, giving him points, and I just couldn’t catch up


Martin 31

Ian 19

Next, we played Toy battle, with Martin taking a fairly aggressive stance and rushing into my base for the instant win. Three times. My defensive approach clearly no match for an influx of T-Rexes.

Martin wins (x3)

Ian loses.

Marabunta was suggested by Martin, a game I hadn’t played before. I quite enjoyed this recent Knizia area control game. Simple mechanically, with each player taking it turns to roll a set of dice, splitting them into two groups. The twist is that the opponents get to choose which set they want first, so there are nice considerations to be made.

Despite offering up a few dice-splits that gave Martin pause for thought the game was perhaps inevitable his. I would like to play this again though, a surprisingly deep game for such a small box.

Martin 15

Ian 9

We finished with Viking See-Saw, another Knizia, though possibly the least-Knizia like Knizia I’ve played, being a dexterity balancing game. I do like the pieces, the metal cubes having genuine heft.

This proved to finally be a game I could win, and finished the evening with my sole victory, though I didn’t make a note of the exact score.

Ian wins

Martin Loses



All in all, a most enjoyable evening of two-players.