I’m really looking forward to seeing what each of these expansions has to offer, and there will doubtless be more reports here on the blog when I do! I’ve also recently bought Ticket to Ride and the Charms & Potions expansion for the Harry Potter deck building game, so that’s very exciting, as well! I honestly don’t think any of the location cards we pulled was particularly easy, and many times we found ourselves failing tasks as a result.īut we’re going to be playing more, which is exciting stuff, so I’m looking forward to working through each of the Ancient Ones in the core game, and then Jemma has said we should also work through the expansions, which is really exciting! I’ve played with Unseen Forces a few times now, but I’m fairly sure that stuff like Gates of Arkham and Omens of Ice have only hit the table once each, and Omens of the Pharaoh and Omens of the Deep have never been played with – indeed, the tokens sheet was still shrinkwrapped in each of the boxes! However, it just goes to show that with the wrong combinations of investigators and location cards, we started on the back foot and things only got worse from there. It was a really good game, despite the lack of success! I think Elder Sign sometimes has the reputation for being a walk in the park, hence why later expansions deemed it necessary to make things much more difficult. Fortunately, we had amassed enough trophies between the two of us that we were able to keep discarding them through all of this, but with still three doom tokens on him, our final couple of trophies were discarded, and we were devoured forever. To start with, it was going okay – by this point, we’d made it through to Carolyn Fern and Jenny Barnes – and we removed quite a bit of doom. Perhaps inevitably, then, Yog Sothoth woke up and for maybe only the second time I was faced with having to defeat an Ancient One by removing doom. Indeed, Gloria was devoured within about two turns! We went through a succession of investigators, each one was pretty much on a conveyor belt as they turned up, stuck around for maybe a turn or two, then was devoured. It wasn’t impossible per se, but even with Amanda’s ability to complete multiple tasks per roll of the dice, I did find it very difficult. Amaya’s book is significant as indicating a trend for future historiography on the Revolution.Last week, my wife said the words every guy wants to hear: shall we have a regular game night?įor our first game of the new season, as it were, we got Elder Sign to the table, and started against Yog Sothoth – which was just vicious! We started out as Amanda Sharpe and Gloria Goldberg, but the Museum cards were just so brutal that we were pretty much on an uphill slog from the get-go. To him all who opposed the Revolution and supported Victoriano Huerta were “reactionairies.” But now, more than a half century after the Convention, Mexicans are beginning to write the history of this era as it should be written-by using all of the sources available in several countries and many languages. Not that Luis Fernando Amaya is completely objective. These earlier writers saw events from a Villista, Carrancista, or Zapatista viewpoint and used limited sources, usually the papers of their own faction. Until now the histories of the first decade of the Revolution emanating from Mexico were written by partisans of one or another faction. Still, allowing for the book’s obvious shortcomings, it is an important step toward writing Revolutionary history in the manner of Daniel Cosío Villegas’ books on the Juárez and Díaz periods. Thus his account of the Convention debates has a curiously unreal quality. And though Amaya indicates in the introduction that he used Roque González Garza’s archives, these papers are not cited in any of the footnotes. At least half of the footnotes refer to La Convención, the official organ of the Convention’s government. There is not enough on events outside the parliamentary halls to put the Convention’s actions in proper focus. But the main focus is on the debates and decisions of the Convention itself, and this is perhaps the chief weakness of the book. He also used to advantage the Department of State archives in his description of Woodrow Wilson’s troubles with the various revolutionary factions. He was able to utilize materials not available to earlier writers on the period, such as the Magaña archives. Amaya traces the vicissitudes of the Convention from the split between Villa and Carranza to its demise after Obregón’s victory at Celaya. This is a competent though hardly definitive account of an important era in Mexico’s Revolutionary history.
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