What to do when it rains?

 Sushi Go at Coningham!

Family Plus Cartographers, Round 2

 Elizabeth was visiting, and we had all of the exchange students.  Played Cartographers again.  Some did better than round 1, some did worse.

Family Plus Cartographers

 Cartographers, with the exchange students and Susan and Elizabeth

Maria, yet again

 The fourth game of Maria.  This has become a firm favorite of ours!

Simon's Comments:

Another fortnight, another ‘Maria lesson’ from Nick… We thought we’d handicap him by making him Austrian this time, but to no avail! He dominated the political phase again, grabbing Italy for his cause, turning Saxony neutral, and keeping pressure on Russia. Cameron’s Pragmatic Army ran riot through Northern France again, and Nick bided his time to pick up some easy points in their wake. And in a stunning victory, Nick’s surrounded Austrian main army fought off all three Prussian Armies, and the Saxons in a single turn! This allowed him to push into Schleswig and claim a number of VPs. My French had gobbled up parts of Western Austria, but their home front was in ruins. Another fun evening for everyone but the Prussians!

Maria's Reprise

 Maria, yet again.  As the French, I destroyed the Pragmatic army, and sought victory in the Netherlands.

From Simon: 

While Bohemia degenerated into a three-way stand off, Cameron’s Pragmatic Army launched a stunning attack into Northern France and almost pulled off a victory. Nick narrowly (with Austrian tacit support) managed to reposition his armies by forced marches, and overran Cameron’s supply train inside France - leading to annihilation. 

Cameron’s Prussians then finally tried their luck against my Austrians, and narrowly came off second best. Nick had withdrawn his French and Bavarians from the campaign in Austria, and the Saxons had gone neutral, so the Prussians were going to be under pressure fighting Austria alone. 

Nick also played the politics section well, gaining extra troops and taking resources off the Austrians. Overall he had the best of it again, but I’m claiming a draw as he still has a lot of work to do when we pulled stumps at 2200!

Maria, Maria!

 Maria.

Strategy for this game was to crush the Austrians in Austria -- which largely worked.

Spring Gamefest

 Recovering from the flu, but went along to the Hobart Gaming Society Spring Gamefest with Fernanda and Maria.

Started off with Sushi Go -- which was fun.

Moved on to Dixit, which Fernanda and Maria loved so much I need to buy.

The Girls played Machi Koro, while I dove into Deep Sea Adventure.

Finally, Wingspan -- which Maria nailed, almost doubling my score!

Post Port Arthur

 Went to Port Arthur and the Tasman Peninsular.  A great day.  When we got home all were tired, so we played a game of Tokaido.  It was close 1st, 2nd, and 3rd were all separated by 1 point!

Girls and Japanese Tourism

Tokaido  Maria squared!

Girls and Gems

 Splendor

Teaching the Girls

 After a cold trip to Bonorong, Maria and Marina and I retired to the garage to play games.  Splendor and Wingspan.  Maria won Wingspan!!!!

Wingspan for the Win WITH WAR

 Taught Maria and Marina how to play Wingspan.  I won -- but I only beat Marina by 1 point!

Earlier, Ross came over and we knocked off a couple of C&C games.  One each if I recall.

Maria!

 Played Maria the board game.  Visited by Maria the cat, and Maria the exchange student!

Maria is a great game.  I  did win, so I may be biased.  We played the basic version.  Next time the advanced game!

Yet More Netrunner Again

Cameron and I love Netrunner.

Maria assisted this time as well.  But it gets hard to play when a tail swish will disrupt your card setup!