games day

Today we held a games day. Well, I suppose technically that's "are holding"; there are still people downstairs, but I didn't think I was up for a long game after dinner.

We ended up with 13 people, so we broke into three groups. One of the others played Iron Dragon; the other was finishing Ra when we finished our game, but I don't know if that's all they played. I was in the group playing Age of Imperialism, which we received as a gift earlier this year. Dani test-drove it last month with a few people, but I wasn't home for that. So this was my first time playing. (One of the other players had played once before.)

( Age of Imperialism )

After dinner some people decided to play Age of Renaissance, which I've played a few times before. It's similar to Civilization in a lot of ways. It's a fun game, but one of the ways it's similar to Civ is in length, and I wasn't up for it. I wasn't the only one, so the rest of us split into two groups to play shorter games. I played Settlers of Catan (and actually won, which rarely happens) and then a couple games of Trans America (a fun, fast, train game).

Age of Renaissance consists of three ages (or epochs, or whatever). They were about to enter the third one about half an hour ago, so I suspect they'll be at this for another hour or so.