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Not much to report for today. Worked from home and had a pretty productive day, overall. I have to remind myself pretty much daily how fortunate I am to have a job that lets me work from home so often as well as work autonomously. After work Colin came over at around 6:30 and we ordered pizza from Toppers and played board games. It was a Privateer Press-filled evening with a game of Grind first and then Monsterpocalypse. It was the first time Colin had played either but, as usual, he figured them out pretty much immediately and did really well. For a game that began its life as a free download PDF and distraction for Warmachine it’s really well polished and a lot of fun. The snap-together steamjacks are fun to customize. I really hope they come out with different steamjacks or even just a different set of arms and weapons to use. The replay value of games like is directly proportional to the amount of customization that can take place. My only complaint about the game is the finish on the actual game board. I’ve only played it twice and there’s already visible scratching from moving the pieces around which is a shame because it’s a great looking board, artistically.

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It was fun teaching Colin to play Monsterpocalypse. He used Gakura (Empire of the Apes) and I used Krakenoctus (Tritons). The learning curve on that game is pretty steep just in terms of the amount of rules you have to absorb but Colin picked it up pretty quickly. I think about the only way to learn that game is to have someone coach you through every move on your first game simply because knowing how your units, monsters, and buildings work together is essential not only to winning but to the game being fun. Hopefully we can play some games over Vassal.

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