Tonight was a good night. No one but me showed up to the game night host's house; he messaged me ahead of time and asked me to bring my Armada stuff. I brought that, Chameleon in case people showed up, Pandemic Iberia, and then Memoir '44 (which popped into my head minutes before I left to head over). He really wanted me to bring Merchants and Marauders but I was like "I flipped through the rules when I got it and the expansion two months ago, and then never looked back. It's gonna take me more than an hour to learn it enough to teach it. I need a week to figure it out, watch some vids, find some player aides, and whatnot."
We played the Pegasus Bridge and Sword Beach scenarios in Memoir (I won Pegasus as Allies but his Axis powers beat me at Sword Beach). After that he wanted to play War of the Ring but he's isn't completely up and up on the rules since he hasn't played it in a while. He wanted to do Armada, but I actually wasn't feeling Armada. So we wound up playing Rebellion. It was my fourth time with Rebellion and my first time as Rebels. I actually got to win once, playing as Rebels! I won by turn end of turn 7, so fairly quick too. His planets were kind of spread out instead of concentrated around Coruscant like mine randomly are as Imperial, so I placed my base at Corellia. He found it mid-way through the game by just stumbling upon it after deploying some troops to it since he had some TIEs there after a Soontir Fel mission. I wiped him out really quick on the ground and then moved it next turn to Tatooine, where it stayed uncovered until the end. I managed to kill a Death Star to get two points and my opponent conceeded. I showed him my "Gain '*' points, one for each destroyed system" objective and said "As soon as we enter the refresh step, I'll get one point for the one destroyed system and win. That was satisfying.
EDIT: Aww man, I decided that I finally wanted to pick up some M44 expansion content since I remembered how much I like it tonight while playing it. Most of it is all OOP right now though. I did see where it was said that apparently the long-OOP Air Pack is slated to be revised and released, but I also saw where someone on BGG said that the team in charge got cut down to like three people after the Asmodee buyout, so things are moving really slow. Maybe it's time to finally buy Command & Colours Ancients, which I've had on my wishlist for a while (can't ever get it at my desired price point though).
