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Stonne 1940 Big CoC Weekend Part 1

This has been in the pipeline for a few months now, the first public Big CoC public weekend at the WHC. In this first post I'll give some idea of the thought process (sic) behind the game and then I'll give you the scenarios and how the game played out...oh, and there will be a few pics.

Warlord and Crusader French

Mark Freeth was very keen to get an early war 1940 scenario together, initially we toyed with the idea of running a weekend with 2 games running side by side, one containing French and the other BEF taking on the invading Germans. While this was certainly achievable, it involved a few more logistical headaches concerning turning the games around, plus simply having to focus on 2 games at once rather than one. So, in the end we plumped for a single set of scenarios with just the French and Germans.
A small problem with running Big CoC games is that the scenarios are somewhat dependant on the number of players attending, and given the nature of the WHC the numbers can vary, Some players book months in advance, but often people will book relatively late so the scenario needed to be capable of being tweaked to fit this in. The nuts and bolts of the game don't alter that much, the idea being that each player will command an infantry (or armour) platoon, then the force as a whole has a degree of support which is then dished out. On the whole this is not a problem, but for quite a while we were looking at having six players (fine, 3 on 3) then suddenly the numbers went up to seven. My initial reaction was one of mild horror because it meant balancing the game for a three versus four. However, when I started looking at the way the Stonne game might play out, the imbalance of 3 platoons  against 4 became more and more attractive.

A little Panhard 178. It bogged in the ditch......

The battle at Stonne took place over 4 days commencing on 15th May 1940, with the Germans having the Grossdeutschland motorised infantry regiment, and elements of the 10.PzD (Panzer-Regiment 8)
They were encountering in these scenarios the 3e DIM (Division d'Infanterie Motorisée), supported by 3e DCr (Division Cuirassée)
Looking at the platoon lists for CoC the 1940 German infantry platoons are enormous. Each platoon contains 2 senior leaders and a 50mm mortar team plus 4 x 10 man sections, for a total of 44 men.
The French platoons are a similar size, with 2 platoon leaders (1 senior, 1 junior) a VB rifle grenade team of a junior leader with 4 men. plus 3 sections of 11 for a total of 40 men. 

So if we had seven players, with 3 on the German side and 4 for the French it wouldn't be too bad. 1 player a side would be playing a tank platoon anyway, so it would be 2 German infantry platoons against 3 French, however that is actually 8 German sections opposed to 9 French, making it less unbalanced than first appears. A little extra tweaking by making the Germans "superior regulars" meaning they treat rolls on their command dice of a single six also as a 5, giving them more CoC dice pips during the game, plus increasing the size of their panzer II platoon to a whopping 5 vehicles would compensate for the additional French numbers. Additionally, each German platoon would start with a full Chain of Command Dice. 

Poilus advance, CharB in support 
So I worked on that basis, and prepared everything with 7 players in mind, Then of course Mark called and said " I've got an 8th player"......So the superior regular, and the extra CoC dice went out of the window, and the Panzer platoon was cut from 5 down to 4, and the Germans went up to 3 infantry platoons to make it 4 a side. Also the Germans would not have a significant advantage in support points when they were attacking, while the french would.
 Even after this we had another couple of guys wanting to sign up, but at that late stage we sadly had to say no, and stick with 8, as I think a single game with 5 a side is really stretching it for this rule set - not saying its not possible, but I think the game might suffer.
So that is the format we ended up going with, having said that I'm pretty sure the scenarios will work fine with seven (or 5 for that matter) players if the Germans are bumped up a bit to cater for uneven forces.


Panzerjeager I supports Black Tree and Warlord infantry
The other aspect of the games that numbers have an impact on is the size of the table used for each scenario. The recommendation for Big CoC is that the table size should be the same as for normal CoC (6' x 4')  with an additional foot width per additional infantry platoon added - you add nothing for the armour.
Well, The main table at the WHC is 24' long by 6' deep, and so we already play on a depth of 6' which I prefer over 4'. The patrol phase gets forces into action quickly enough anyway, and having the extra depth gives players a bit more room without slowing things down.
Just adding 2 feet per platoon gives us a width of 8' x 6 " which is fine, but the centres' terrain boards are 3' each so it is convenient to go for a slightly larger width of 9'. a bit more room both on the table and for player comfort. That meant that it wasn't too tricky to divide up the table into 3 sections - 9' at each end and then utilise the central 6' and 3' of one of the other sections to give us 3 x 6' x 9' areas.

The point of all this meant I could set up the entire table beforehand, and players go from game to game  with no great interruptions in order to maximise playing time. Also I think it looks good!

Stonne from west to east: Game 1 at the far end, game 2 in the foreground, game 3 in the centre. The Germans are advancing from the north, the French, the south.

I also planned to have a 4th scenario, which would have meant re-setting the terrain at one end of the table- it would have been that which was fought over in game 2 so we could do it while game 3 was in progress giving plenty of time. As it turned out, we didn't get in 4 games over the weekend, a bit of a shame but, sometimes CoC games can be like that, some go faster than others.

The table was made up simply from having a look at Google Earth, backed up with some excellent maps in Prieser's "Blitzkrieg Legend"- to  get the overall topography. Generally the village hasn't changed enormously since 1940, although it was rebuilt there has been no development sprawl, The critical points haven't changed, in terms of the woods, the road layout, and the extent of the village.Being able to get down at street view is an amazing resource, it shows just how winding and steep the only road the Germans had to approach the village from the north was, as it approaches the Butte De Stonne at the Eastern end of the village, and how despite it appearing very flat on the map, the countryside to the west and south actually has quite a lot of small undulations, the view south from the village is somewhat restricted. At the eastern end of the village the countryside is more wooded and broken, with the road becoming sunken before it winds down back on itself down the steep wooded slope to the north of the village (off- table)

Map showing the initial German attack on Stonne, May 15 at 0800. Influenced by Eric Denis' work. (wikipedia)

Given the nature of playing 3 or possibly 4 games over a weekend in a campaign format with 8 CoC novices I thought that the first scenario should probably be a bit gentle in order to ease them into it, and allow them to possibly make a few mistakes without getting horribly punished. I also wanted to keep it relatively simple.
Given the nature of the fighting in Stonne (the village apparently changed hands 17 times in 3 days), it lent itself to a relatively straightforward narrative: i.e. Attack and counterattack- So I decided to make the first game an attack/defence scenario with the Germans on the offensive at the eastern end of the table, the second game was to be another attack/defence with the French on the offensive at the western end of the table. Game 3 was to be in the central area of the table with the Germans attacking in an "attack on an objective" scenario.
I planned a 4th scenario which was to be played out on new terrain to the east of Stonne and that would have been the French conducting a flank attack. However, time sadly ran out. I'm sure we will do it one day.

The View from east to west, the broken ground of the Butte De Stonne in the foreground

The scene was set:

8 players, hopefully 4 games, Germans versus French at Stonne, one of the iconic battles of the campaign.

What were the salient features of the battle? The Germans had crossed the Meuse a couple of days earlier and were trying to exploit that relatively fragile bridgehead, the French had rapidly managed to assemble a counter attack force. The massif of which Stonne is a small part doesn't readily show up on a map, but have a look at Google Earth and you can see just how important it was for both sides. The village itself is rather innocuous, just a farming village with two roads entering from the south, however, it is the terrain to the north which both sides were focused on. There is a single road which leads out of Stonne to the north, this snakes down the hillside along a steep wooded slope before reaching the more gentle plain. The entire northern side of Stonne is covered in thick fir trees which extend down the steep slope- there is nowhere in the village itself (other than the "Butte de Stonne") which has a view to the north. However, if you hold the town and can establish OP's in this wooded hillside you have a magnificent vista stretching out 4 or 5 kilometres and more to the north, the German bridgeheads, and the routes they will take as they expand. Subsequently this tiny Ardennes village became vitally important.   

French section enters central Stonne

Addicted!

What's going on everyone!?

Today was spent the same as usual lately by loading up the truck so I can get some more stuff moved to our new place.

All day I couldn't stay away from the Zombies in my pocket app and played 15+ games of it today losing most and winning few but having a blast playing 

I seem to be heavily addicted to the game in my free time like I used to be long ago, lol. 

As always, thank you for reading and don't forget to stop and smell the meeples!  :)

-Tim

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People Behind The Meeples - Episode 241: Hameed Moore

Welcome to People Behind the Meeples, a series of interviews with indie game designers.  Here you'll find out more than you ever wanted to know about the people who make the best games that you may or may not have heard of before.  If you'd like to be featured, head over to http://gjjgames.blogspot.com/p/game-designer-interview-questionnaire.html and fill out the questionnaire! You can find all the interviews here: People Behind the Meeples. Support me on Patreon!

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Name:	Hameed Moore
Email:	mooregames19@gmail.com
Location:	Norway
Day Job:	Student
Designing:	Two to five years.
Facebook:	Moore Games LLC
Twitter:	@MooreGamesLLC
Instagram:	@MooreGamesLLC
Other:	UnPub 9

Today's Interview is with:

Hameed Moore
Interviewed on: 7/16/2020

This week's interview is with Hameed Moore, a designer working on his first game that will be making its way to Kickstarter this October. So keep your eye out for Vendarla, and read on to learn more about Hameed and his other projects.

Some Basics
Tell me a bit about yourself.

How long have you been designing tabletop games?
Two to five years.

Why did you start designing tabletop games?
From new Lego designs to fantasy RPGs, I've always had a passion for designing stuff ever since I was kid. I really enjoy history and fantasy subjects and tabletop design gives me that platform to bring those subjects to life in a format of a game.

What game or games are you currently working on?
Press your luck (Vendarla), Worker placement, Co-op deck builder

Have you designed any games that have been published?
Not yet

What is your day job?
Student

Your Gaming Tastes
My readers would like to know more about you as a gamer.

Where do you prefer to play games?
In a house

Who do you normally game with?
Wife, family, and friends

If you were to invite a few friends together for game night tonight, what games would you play?
If we have 7 people then 7 Wonders always! Less than 7, Orleans, Valeria Card/Villages, Mansions of Madness, Dice Forge, Terraforming Mars

And what snacks would you eat?
Chips and nuts

Do you like to have music playing while you play games? If so, what kind?
It depends on the theme of the game. If I was playing a civilization themed game then I would play music from a civilization soundtrack.

What's your favorite FLGS?
Games Unlimited in Pittsburgh, PA and Outland in Bergen Norway

What is your current favorite game? Least favorite that you still enjoy? Worst game you ever played?
My favorite is 7 Wonders, Least favorite but still enjoy Dwarven Smithy, and worst game is Quests of Valeria

What is your favorite game mechanic? How about your least favorite?
Favorite is worker placement. Least is trick taking

What's your favorite game that you just can't ever seem to get to the table?
I don't have that problem but if I have to pick one it would be Through the Ages.

What styles of games do you play?
I like to play Board Games, Card Games, Miniatures Games, RPG Games, Video Games

Do you design different styles of games than what you play?
I like to design Board Games, Card Games

OK, here's a pretty polarizing game. Do you like and play Cards Against Humanity?
Yes

You as a Designer
OK, now the bit that sets you apart from the typical gamer. Let's find out about you as a game designer.

When you design games, do you come up with a theme first and build the mechanics around that? Or do you come up with mechanics and then add a theme? Or something else?
Mechanics first then the theme.

Have you ever entered or won a game design competition?
No

Do you have a current favorite game designer or idol?
No

Where or when or how do you get your inspiration or come up with your best ideas?
From ancient history and fantasy works

How do you go about playtesting your games?
I set up private game nights for a selected group. Eventually I will take my prototype to any board game meetup events to find new testers.

Do you like to work alone or as part of a team? Co-designers, artists, etc.?
With a team, my wife is a UX designer so she helps me with some ideas and all of the design layout.

What do you feel is your biggest challenge as a game designer?
Marketing your game.

If you could design a game within any IP, what would it be?
I would like to design a board game similar to World of Warcraft.

What do you wish someone had told you a long time ago about designing games?
How to market your games through social media and other platforms.

What advice would you like to share about designing games?
Have fun and be open-minded to people's comments about your game.

Would you like to tell my readers what games you're working on and how far along they are?
I'm planning to crowdfund: Vendarla - a competitive press your luck resource management game.
Games I feel are in the final development and tweaking stage are: Vendarla
Games that I'm playtesting are: Worker placement city building game
Games that are in the early stages of development and beta testing are: Co-op deck builder adventure game
And games that are still in the very early idea phase are: Civilization style game

Are you a member of any Facebook or other design groups? (Game Maker's Lab, Card and Board Game Developers Guild, etc.)
Yes, Board Game Reviewers & Media, BG Design Lab Community, BG Geek Crowdfunding Group, BG Revolution Community, BGG

And the oddly personal, but harmless stuff…
OK, enough of the game stuff, let's find out what really makes you tick! These are the questions that I'm sure are on everyone's minds!

Star Trek or Star Wars? Coke or Pepsi? VHS or Betamax?
Star Wars, Coke-zero, VHS

What hobbies do you have besides tabletop games?
Reading, PC gaming, traveling, and hiking

What is something you learned in the last week?
Getting people to subscribe to a newsletter early on in the process is really important.

Favorite type of music? Books? Movies?
Favorite type of music - Classical Favorite type of books - Ancient history, medieval history, science-fiction/fantasy Favorite type of Movies - Historical, action, comedies, science-fiction/fantasy, romantic comedies

What was the last book you read?
Lords of the North by Bernard Cornwell

Do you play any musical instruments?
No

Tell us something about yourself that you think might surprise people.
I can be shy at first

Tell us about something crazy that you once did.
Attended a random person's graduation party with some friends.

Biggest accident that turned out awesome?
Can't think of anything

Who is your idol?
Roman Emperor Aurelian

What would you do if you had a time machine?
Visit the Roman Empire during its Pax Romana

Are you an extrovert or introvert?
Introvert until I get to know the people

If you could be any superhero, which one would you be?
Silver Surfer

Have any pets?
No

When the next asteroid hits Earth, causing the Yellowstone caldera to explode, California to fall into the ocean, the sea levels to rise, and the next ice age to set in, what current games or other pastimes do you think (or hope) will survive into the next era of human civilization? What do you hope is underneath that asteroid to be wiped out of the human consciousness forever?
I hope we can find a way to stop the next asteroid from hitting Earth. Board games will survive because we have been playing board games since the times of the ancient Egyptians and Sumerians.

Just a Bit More
Thanks for answering all my crazy questions! Is there anything else you'd like to tell my readers?

Game on!! I plan on launching the Kickstarter campaign for Vendarla in October 2020.

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Game 378: Goodcode's Cavern (1982) And Romero/Carmack Corrections

            

Goodcode's Cavern

United States
Gebelli Software (publisher)

Released 1982 for Atari 800

Date Started: 3 September 2020

Date Ended: 3 September 2020

Total Hours: 2

Difficulty: Easy (2/5)

Final Rating: (to come later)

Ranking at time of posting: (to come later)

     

In today's edition of "If It Were Any Good, It Wouldn't Have Taken 10 Years to Show Up on MobyGames," we have Goodcode's Cavern, also known as Dr. Goodcode's Cavern (the box cover, title screen, and manual all slightly disagree). This all-text game plays like a combination of The Devil's Dungeon (1978), with its numbered rooms and magic wand as the only piece of player inventory, and Rodney Nelsen's Dragon Fire (1981), with its randomly-generated room descriptions. Its concepts are basic enough, however, that it might have been influenced by neither.

     

The setup is that Doctor Goodcode has purchased a mansion and found the caverns beneath it inhabited by monsters. He wants you, an adventurer, to clean it out. Thus begins your exploration of a randomly-generated three-level dungeon with 80 rooms per level. Your goal is to make it to the exit with as much treasure and as many kills as possible.

             

Stepping into the first room.

        

There's no character creation process. Everyone seems to start with a strength of 86 and no assets except a magic wand with three charges. The dungeon is laid out like a node map, with each room connecting to up to four others in the four cardinal directions. You can wind your way through all 80 rooms on each level in numerical order or watch for the occasional opportunity to jump from, say, Room 40 to Room 57. That's about the only "choice" you get in the game.

  

As you enter each room, the game draws from a collection of random terms and phrases, so one might be described as a "light blue room with a wooden floor" and the next a "ruby red room with a dirt floor." A selection of atmospheric effects finalizes the description: "There is a pool of blood"; "It smells like a fire"; "It is very musty in here." Each room can have nothing, some gold pieces strewn about, or an encounter with a monster.

          

This room is pink with a thick carpet and there's moaning.

           

Monsters include snakes, orcs, alligators, tigers, vampires, wild dogs, frogs, and cave bears. Each has a randomly-selected descriptor and color, so you might get a "mean white snake" or a "gruesome russet wild dog" or a "mammoth yellow vampire." Not only that, but there's a random exclamation before the monster ("Hot tacos!"; "Jiminy Cricket!") and each monster has a random behavioral descriptor after his name; for instance, "he is starting towards you" or "he is looking hungry." Each monster also has a strength level. Your only options are to "Defend" (which seems to do nothing), "Attack," or zap the creature with your magic wand. The latter kills everything instantly, but you only have three charges to start.

              

Hot tacos indeed. Although I suspect if I saw a blue grizzly bear, I'd start blaming something else I got in Mexico.

             

Attacking pits your strength against the monster level, and behind a bunch of colorful flashes, the game calculates how much health you and the monster lose. Some battles take up to three rounds. If you win, you get whatever treasure that monster was carrying, which again is drawn from a list of random descriptions and values. You might find an "ugly iron ring" worth nothing or a "bright gold chalice" worth 11,000 gold pieces. You only have 20 treasure slots, so you often find yourself discarding cheap treasures to make room for more expensive ones. There are no other inventory items in the game.

          

Finding a "nickel headband" and then checking my status.

        

As you defeat monsters, your level goes up, and I guess maybe it improves your odds in future combats. If so, it's not really palpable. Leveling is a bit weird, because it's expressed as two numbers, like "1-40" or "2-67." I couldn't tell where the first number rolls over; I think my winning character got to "2-110." Equally mysterious is how health regenerates. Your health is represented as a percentage--the higher the more you're wounded--and sometimes it seems to drop as you move between safe areas, but other times it remains stubbornly the same.

        

The mammoth russet vampire was a little too much for me, so I zapped him with the wand. I'm glad I did, because the colossal gold knife was worth a lot of money.

        

In addition to regular monsters, demons of various colors and descriptions (e.g., "yellow cave demon"; "pink sewer demon") pop up randomly and extort gold from you under a variety of excuses, including loans, protection money, and buying tickets to the "demon's ball." They ask for relatively little gold, and you can't fight them anyway, so there's nothing to do but hit B)ribe and pay them. Their demands don't even get more expensive on lower levels. It's a very weird dynamic.

          

A demon convinces me to pay reparations.

         

The game has an odd fixation with color. Not only do you get color descriptions for the rooms, monsters, and treasure, but the main screen frequently changes color, flashes different colors when combat is happening, and sticks different colored boxes randomly on the sides of the screen. I guess the developer was just showing off the capabilities of the system. It didn't affect my experience either way; I just found it strange.

    

If you die at any point, you can quickly hit the joystick button to resurrect in the same room for a minimal cost, but it fails about half the time.

              

No, but you can resurrect me.

         

Room 80 of the first two levels is a special room where a demon will buy your treasures for cash and then sell you food, a compass, information, or an extra two "zaps" for the wand. I have no idea what food does; buying it seemed to have no effect. Ditto the compass. "Information" resulted in nonsense clues (e.g., "you will meet a tall dark stranger") whenever I tried. The extra zaps are priceless, though, and you can make more than enough money on Level 1 to ensure that you can just use your wand to blast through the next two levels, although using the wand nets you no experience.

         

Room 80 on Level 1.

        

Room 80 on Level 3 presents you with a "wizened old man" seated at an organ. The door slams shut behind you, and your wand starts to flicker. This seems like an obvious clue to Z)ap the wand, but in fact it doesn't matter what action you take; the outcome is the same: you win the game and the program recaps the amount of treasure you collected and the number and strength of monsters you killed. Presumably, you're meant to keep replaying for higher scores.

    

The winning screens.

         

This is the sort of game that I would have seen in a bargain bin at Electronics Boutique in 1984. I would have been suspicious of its $7.95 price sticker, assuming it couldn't possibly deliver much content for that price, but I would have bought it with hope anyway, taken it home, and tried my best to supplement my wanderings with my own imagination, pretending I was having fun, but feeling in some vague way that there must be more to life than this.

           

Cavern barely passes as an RPG. It has one inventory item that you can choose to use; I guess it has some statistics behind the combat; and there is that mysterious "level." It gets only a 10 on the GIMLET, with 2s in economy, interface, and gameplay and 0s and 1s in everything else. I can't find the game even mentioned in a contemporary source, let alone reviewed.

         

I have no idea what's happening here.

                  

Dr. Goodcode, whoever he was, never made another appearance (search the name without Cavern and you get nothing). The rest of the title screen is equally mysterious. If the dedicatee, "Kitty Goodcode," wasn't a James Bond girl, she also wasn't anyone else as far as I can tell. Perhaps the only notable thing is that it was published by Gebelli Software, which was a short-lived California-based enterprise from Nasir Gebelli, the famed Apple II developer who went on to work on the Final Fantasy series at Square. I'm participating in a podcast with John Romero later in September, and I know he knows Gebelli, and I suppose I could ask him to ask Gebelli to confirm who Dr. Goodcode was, but .  . . there are times that tracking down the original developers to some of these 1980s games honors them, and there are times that it doxxes them. This seems like one of the latter.

   

But since I was only able to get 1,200 words out of Goodcode's Cavern, let me use the rest of this space to explore a lesson that I recently learned about secondhand journalism. A few years ago, in writing about Dark Designs III: Retribution! (1991), I wrote the following:

            

1991 was a major transition year for Carmack and his new partner, John Romero. At the age of 20, Carmack had gotten a job two years prior at Softdisk, largely on the strength of his Dark Designs series. But he and the other developers grew to despise the sweatshop-like atmosphere of Softdisk and the monthly programming demands. He and Romero began moonlighting by selling their own games--principally the Commander Keen series--as shareware on bulletin board services. When Softdisk found out about these games, and that the pair had been using the company's computers to write them, both threats of a lawsuit and offers of a contract followed. The messy result was that Carmack and Romero left the company but agreed to continue to produce one game every 2 months for Softdisk's magazines. Thus, a couple years later, after the team had changed the gaming world forever with Wolfenstein 3D and DOOM, you see them credited on the occasional diskmag title like Cyberchess and Dangerous Dave Goes Nutz!

            

I had consulted several sources to assemble that paragraph, including one that purported to have interviewed both Carmack and Romero in detail, and I was pretty confident in what I had. Fast forward to a few weeks ago, when John Romero (who I didn't even know was aware of my blog) invited me to participate in a podcast interview of Stuart Smith. (We're recording in mid-September; I'll let you know when it's out.) I took the opportunity to run the paragraph by him and found out that almost everything I'd written was wrong. To wit:

          

• I was a year late; 1990 was the year most of this happened. Romero worked at Softdisk prior to Carmack and was actually the one who hired Carmack, not because of Dark Designs but because of a tennis game plus his obvious facility with programming.

• Romero and Carmack loved working at Softdisk and only left because it was the wrong sort of publisher to take advantage of the horizontal scrolling technology that the duo would use in Wolfenstein 3D and DOOM.

• It was actually the president of Softdisk, Al Vekovius, who suggested that Carmack, Romero, and Tom Hall start their own company. There were no lawsuits and no threats; Carmack and Romero kept working for Softdisk for a year to avoid leaving the company in a lurch.

• The reason Carmack and Romero are credited on so many Softdisk titles stretching into the mid-1990s is that those titles used technology and code that Carmack and Romero had created. They otherwise had no involvement in games like Cyberchess and Dangerous Dave Goes Nutz!

      

All of this has been a lesson in putting too much faith in secondary sources, even when they agree and everything seems to fit together logically. I didn't get into this gig to be a journalist, and I have no formal training in journalism, but clearly my blog has veered in that direction at least occasionally, and as such, I need to adopt stricter rules for my use of sources, to make it clear when I'm speculating based on limited evidence, and to always see primary sources when they're available. I'm still working on these "rules," but they stopped me here in speculating on the identity of Dr. Goodcode even though I have a pretty good idea of who he is.

     

Sorry for the otherwise short entry, but you'll see a few more of these in September, as I have to devote more time to getting my classes going. Hopefully for the next entry, I can make some progress on The Summoning.

    

D-E-D Dead!

What's going on everyone!?

Today for the #2019gameaday challenge I played a game of Colt Express on the mobile app.  It was a great game but I'm a little biased about the game, lol!

I didn't end up winning but I felt a bit rusty with the game. I can't wait to play it again and trying to win!

As always, thank you for reading and don't forget to stop and smell the meeples! :)

-Tim