Something nice, really-really nice - one of my few "10" ratings in BGG: Maria. I got to play as Prussia/Pragmatic - and I have a feeling that this might be the most fun side to play. At the same time you're both ally and enemy of both Austria and France, so lots of opportunities all the time.

This time Prussia was very lucky in his conquest of Silesia - at the end of his actions during Turn 3 he was able to offer temporary truce to Austria already (and Austria accepted it). And as Austrian generals moved then to western front, to fight with France, northern Austria was left quite lightly protected. At the same time Pragmatic and Austria were making some offensive moves near France borderlands, while main Austrian and French forces were having maneuvers in western-Austria. Skirmishes during those maneuvers left Austria quite exhausted (in terms of battle cards), so after truce ended Prussia was able to give devastating blow, leaving Prussia with 20 men and 3 generals, opposed by 5 Austrian men with one general. Unfortunately we had to end the game at this point, due to time constraints, but it was excellent experience nevertheless.

About other games a bit as well. Last time I played Infiltration I suddenly discovered how... action-less should be the term I suppose... this game is. You move, you extract, move, extract. Use some card (to move more or extract more), then move or extract. It's not it's bad but... a bit repetitive. Boring.

Kingsburg, on the other hand, left me wanting some more after first play. And that's always a good sign, especially from VP-collecting worker placement eurogame, using dice as workers.