My campaign board game group just finished scenario 17 out of 18 of Tidal Blades 2. After a break for the holidays, we will finish that campaign in January. Then we will have to decide what campaign game to play next. Due to my crowdfunding habits, there is an abundance of choice. Even after pre-selecting, there are still 4 candidates: Kinfire Chronicles, Oathsworn, Arydia, and Elder Scrolls: Betrayal of the Second Era. The first two are structurally similar to the campaign games we played before, in that there are a number of scenarios to play through, with very little branching. The latter two have an "open world" element to it, where you walk over a map, and have encounters, rather than a linear series of scenarios.

I haven't made much progress on my board game stack from the Spiel 2025 in Essen, having just played two more games since the last gaming status: The Hobbit - There and Back Again, and Railroad Tiles. EU5 is in part to blame, eating up time I could otherwise use to prepare board games. But also my board game nights have had an increased number of other people bringing their games, and so I have been playing classics like Dune: Imperium or Arcs rather than the latest games I bought.