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Saturday 4th November: Pandemic Legacy Leave a comment
Phil, Bruce, Mike, Alex and Darryl played Bruce’s Pandemic Legacy once more.
This time after 3 straight defeats it was three consecutive victories. However the one shot vaccination cards helped a lot plus the 6 yellow assistance cards for being so far behind for the first game.
Nevertheless it was some good team work and a little fortune which helped the players achieve victory. Used on the evening were: Colonel, Generalist, Quarantine Specialist, Operations Specialist, Scientist and Researcher. In the final game the players rescued the Virologist. In the second game they managed to get the Black Death to Level 4 upgrade level which makes it easier to handle. Plus they now have a starting military base in each of the six Regions.
Next one looks tough though and with no bonus yellows to play it is maybe fortunate for Phil that it is his turn to sit one out.
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Saturday 30th September: Temple of Elemental Evil and Castle Panic Leave a comment
Phil, Mike, Darryl and Alex.
Temple of Elemental Evil
Whilst Bruce’s Ranger was off scouting ahead the party visited Red Larch just in time to be hit by a Dragon Attack. They deftly saw the Dragon off but had to use the Rogue’s Refresh, haste potion and healing ember to do so! Justly rewarded they headed into the dungeon to tackle the penultimate quest. This time they tracked the Water Elemental down to its lair. A few comic moments when Mike’s warrior complained about being left alone to pin the Elemental in place, getting his army rusty but the heroes were again victorious and Mike was awarded the Trident Drown for his heroics. Next will be the final quest, taking the fight to the Dragonin his Lair so will need Bruce and his Ranger for that one. This time the Wizard, Fighter and Cleric will possibly have Refresh available to use and Bruce has enough money to buy one or another Boon should he so wish.
Castle Panic
We played two games of fully co-operative Castle Panic. Each time we survived with just one tower left.
So that was 4 co-operative games we did not lose in a row! Amazing!
Wednesday 25th September: Colt Express Leave a comment
Two great games of Colt Express with J, D, M and P. J won both times!
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Sunday 24 September Pathfinder Adventures Card Game Leave a comment
Finally finished my rune-lords story arc on my second play through this time playing with the monk, sorcerer, warrior and Druid. Was better planned this time round!
Saturday 23 September Pandemic Legacy again. Leave a comment
Phil, Mike, Alex, DARRYL and Bruce gathered to try again. February Two turned out well enough with a nice win bonus ready for March. However the introduction of the shiny new operations role with the ability to do something new really meant the players had to hose him and drop one of the old faithful roles instead. After two tries with this guy, the medic, scientist and other new person our heroes racked up two losses :(. To be fair they were one action away from victory on DARRYL’s turn but too many blue cubes arising out of epidemics in Europe before his next turn meant it was all over. Close but not a victory. What surprises await in April.
Saturday 9 September: doctor who and mashup Leave a comment
Lots of fun playing Darryl s doctor who game which Phil somehow managed to win pipping Mike to the post on the last card played! Then Mike introduced us to mashup which Darryl’s undead team won . Phil s dinosaur and ninja combo really did not work which is kind of obvious when you think about it . Alex played robots which were really cool and Mike had fun as the gnome team .
Saturday 16 September : Pandemic legacy and 6 nimmt Leave a comment
Bruce hosted his excellent new pandemic legacy game . Mike Phil Alex Darryl and Bruce played this four player game. First round went reasonably well. Bruce’s researcher fed Phil a scientist lots of useful cards such that Norwegian blue was rapidly cured and eradicated. Mike medic and Alex generalist kept everything under control.
However obviously trying to avoid spoilers second round not so easy as the researcher was dropped and the team chose a base which they then lost . So a loss .
Next time someone else will take the upgraded scientist so hopefully victory will follow . Spookily the medic in the game shares the same birthday with the medic in our group !
The legacy game is great with lots of stickers and secret boxes and scratch cards which increase the difficulty and unveil the story as the campaign progresses. Makes me really impatient for gloomhaven which has got stuck in production and shipping but should arrive soon .
We then played 6 nimmt which Mike won of course but actually it was quite close with second player just three points behind then Darryl and Bruce had mega scores.
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