Settlers of Catan, but not in Catan

We have a new FLGS! Down the road in Nth Fitzroy is a new game store that also has space for gaming. We checked it out this Sunday, and were badly tempted to buy much stuff. But reason prevailed and we escaped with just the collectors edition of Settlers of Catan - Egypt. Which is just Catan with an Egyptian skin on it, and some nice pieces and an extra scenario.
We also grabbed an expansion pack for Boss Monster, just some extra cards.
L and I managed to get a game in yesterday of the base Settlers rules. It was fun, although we had to fudge a third player as the kids weren't interested this time. It worked out and L won 11vp to my 7vp.
It's a fun game, I can see why it is regarded a classic.

Grrrr! Arrrgh!

Friday night games, and Kn chose "Brown Bear" and 'Rampage!' (aka Trouble in Meeple City)
Brown Bear a simple little game of turn based card drawing with a memory aspect if another player picks up a card you want and puts it back. Fast, so we had four games before moving on.



Then Rampage! Lots of Kaiju fun. Some of us may have tried to focus a bit too much on knocking the teeth out of each other while L snuck away to a good meeple-fed win.

Need more space!

Storage is always a problem. Especially as our board games collection continues to grow. So a couple of weekends ago a quick trip to Bunn-waas and some power tools (woah!) and saw dust resulted in this...
A brand spanking new shelf unit big enough to store more gaming gear in comfort.