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Mike’s Birthday so lots of games and food. James, Bruce, Alex, Mike, Darryl and Phil played.
Started with two games of Quartermaster. Mike, James, Bruce as Axis vs Darryl, Phil and Alex as Allies. Two Allied wins!
Next Firefly which Alex won just as everyone had their crew ready to start. We used Darryl’s instant crew set up programme. Very good.
James had to leave for another Birthday celebration!
A game of Dark Moon. Our first. Darryl and Alex were infected first time. Uninfected humans won! Second time Phil and Darryl were infected and Infected won. This was after Bruce rolled 3 random hits on the shields allowing Phil to declare as infected and cover the last shield space automatically!
Finally a game of Saboteur which Bruce won.
A truly horrible game of Eldritch Horror. We failed to get anywhere early on and were overwhelmed by events just as we were about ready to set out and defeat the evil ones spawn in the Amazon. So we lost 😦
Star Wars Imperial Assault.
We continued our campaign with our heroes being tempted onto the Luxury Cruise side mission. Who could resist a Luxury Cruise? They decided to leave Chewbacca at home again.
Phil played the Imperials and upgraded the Elite Stormtroopers with his new Combat Veteran Card. The Heroes with Mike’s Gharkan killed a few but Phil re-deployed and they dealt a lot of damage wounding the Wookie. Darryl’s Scout took a nasty hit from the Interrogation Protocol Droid (single use card) that left him stunned and weakened. In this state he was easy prey for more Droids and Basic Stormtroopers. The Players took out two Consoles before the Royal Guard arrived in force (Elites and Standards) who finished off Mike’s Gharkan and Bruce’s Soldier in short order.
This was a nasty scenario for the players who suffered against the upgraded and re-inforced Elite Stormtroopers especially. Despite being able to do a lot of damage they were vulnerable to sheer numbers.
So far we have 4 Rebel and 3 Imperial Victories. Close.
Read the Campaign Page Here
Star Wars the LCG by FFG.
Darryl introduced us to this new game. Bruce played a Rancor so no one did much to start with and we did not get very far. However we did learn the rules for next time.
Updated the Painting Backlog (Lead Mountain) page
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1744629938/dungeon-saga-the-dwarf-kings-quest
Mike and Darryl took on Phil’s Necromancer in this playtest of the Beta rules for the above Kickstarter game. We printed out the rules and cards and took on the introductory adventures A and B. These are really designed to introduce new players to the basic mechanics against simple skeleton warriors. For terrain we used our Dwarven Forge Dungeon and Cavern tiles and added some painted figures.
In adventure A the two Fighters raced through the corridor smashing skeletons. As they were re-animated the players realised they could block the corridor very effectively with the dwarf’s Feat whilst the Barbarian headed towards the door. The skeletons were thus trapped by the dwarf whilst the barbarian forced the door open and it was an easy victory.
In adventure B the players realised the mage and the archer were much more fragile. Still once they had dealt with the initial wave of skeletons they soon had the sense to advance along to the main room. This was in fact no problem for them and whilst the mage held up the skeletons with feat of stone spells the archer eventually was able to get the final door open and it was another victory for the players though perhaps a little harder this time.
Overall a promising game and once we have more variety with different monsters, characters and items I think this will be fun to play. Works very well with the Dwarven Forge terrain to give a true 3D feel. I’m not sure I would ever get round to painting the KS figures now though. Have some proxies ready painted (from LoTR, em4 and Dungeon Command) and the figures unpainted should do for the monsters.
Bruce introduced Mike, Phil and Darryl to his new game:
legion of honor
It is a bit like En Garde played with cards and d10 simulating the experience of raw recruits as they try to capture Napoleon’s notice and rise through the ranks without being killed, executed or captured. Darryl was a lowly sergeant compared to the other sous-lieutenant’s but captured the notice of one of Napoleon’s relatives in an affair du Coeur. He joined Phil in the Regicide and seemed to make lots of money. Phil did quite well with experience, glory and money but had a bad campaign falling prisoner in the North which stalled his progress during the War in Italy. He even got to meet a Lady who was quite out of his league. Mike seemed to have the most fun; getting diseased, robbed, captured, wounded over and over and driving off hordes of Mafiosi; but was always where the main action was not. He was volunteered for a dangerous mission by Bruce and came off very well. Bruce was nearly always the senior officer with astounding success in capturing Napoleon’s notice, especially through his incredible bravery and valiant actions during the Italian Campaign.
Lot’s of fun and certainly one to play again. The vagaries of fortune can be quite brutal.
After that we played Love Letter which was a clever little card game which Darryl won.
We played the next instalment in our campaign (see below). Gaarkhan purchased a new Ax and the Heroes set off to aid Mak Eshka Ray in his revenge in the Loose Cannon Scenario. Upon entering the Imperial complex Mak leapt into the empty AT and began to wreak havoc. Though the Imperials were able to wound both his comrades he proved to be invulnerable in the AT. With all the Stormtroopers and Guards defeated the players gained Victory, claiming Mak Eshka Ray’s special Shadow Suit combat armour and a few credits.
Death Angel: We tried this out for the first time and made it to the last room relatively unscathed only to realise we were completely overwhelmed and outmatched with no chance of victory at all!
Tonight we are planning to play the next mission in our campaign.
So far Darryl ( Mak Eshka Ray), Mike (Ghaarkhan) and Bruce (Fenn Signis) have taken on Phil’s Imperial Military forces.
In the first scenario Aftermath the Rebels were victorious and followed this up with a victory in Spice Job thus gaining the Chewbacca ally. Next up was Viper’s Den. This proved unlucky for the Rebels who sent the wookie to try and decode a really complicated console and then were caught completely unawares by the sudden appearance of General Weiss. A first Victory for the Empire!
The next side mission planned is Viper’s Den and the open Story Mission is Fly Solo.
So far the Rebels have 50 credits in the bank and Chewbacca is an Ally. Mak has 1xp and Bruce 2. They are well equipped though: with Mak holding Disengage and Supply Network; Mike has Combat Coat, Rampage and a balanced hilt; whilst Bruce has Take Cover and a Medi-Kit.
The Empire has 0xp and 0 influence but is holding: Combat Medic and some other good cards.
The open side missions are Viper’s Den or Loose Cannon (Mak Eshka Ray).
Will post the outcome later.
Outcome: The Wookie Ghaarkhan raced through the bar to the door behind which Han Solo was being held prisoner. He opened the door and took heavy fire. Solo ran straight for the exit and the Imperials could not pursue him fast enough. Though the players did not win outright by opening the door they had gained a partial victory.
Have ordered Battle of the Five Armies from Ares games.
Looking forward to this one as am a great fan of their Lord of the Rings stuff.
Bruce won against Phil, Darryl and Mike with a fine run at the end to steal the crown jewels before Phil. Darryl had the perfect ship and crew right at the end but was left behind.
Six player BSG. Bruce, Darryl, James, Phil, Andy and Mike.
Daybreak.
The Fleet was off to a bad start and got hit by multiple Basestar Cylon Attack Cards right from the start. Also they never even seemed to pass the easiest of tasks. The pilots were not the most effective (Andy and James) and were heavily outnumbered and outgunned. Andy had a knack of destroying the Assault Viper and then the Vipers (reckless PC). This almost destroyed the carrier fleet by the end! Admiral Phil eventually exec ordered Bruce the Engineer into jumping with the FTL (was broken). He had it tactically planned but Bruce’s die rolls are legendary (one) setting the scene for every crucial human die roll to follow. Leaving 3 population behind they managed to jump straight into another Cylon Fleet. That kept happening.
So before they knew it the humans were in the red in every category and they were playing mutineer (Bruce) not sympathiser so that was no use! Mike was the new Baltar and Darryl was President Elena Tighe (treachery). Things went from bad to worse. Then James worked out Andy was a Cylon (honest) and put him in the Brig. However Andy refused to die in the brig and become a Cylon so that nobody trusted James. The humans still kept losing resources and getting battered by Cylons. They eventually jumped and the sleeper phase began. More Cylons?
The humans did manage to permanently destroy one base star and get 8 distance but fuel was really low with no scouts left to send out. Andy was still protesting his innocence and Darryl was a very ineffective President. So the Admiral declared Marshall law and with his trusty allies James and Bruce tried to make progress. Mike was trusty too but they just weren’t sure who the Cylon was. Could Andy have been truly innocent? Then James was a traitor? No! It was James, Phil and Bruce who just about saved Galactica from that Centurion who made it to the penultimate space on the track. James got him in the end just before he would have moved again! So surely these were the good guys? Or were they?
Any way the tests just got harder and harder and the resources kept dropping until the humans drew a card that meant at least one resource would definitely go to zero and it was all over.
It turned out Andy was indeed a Cylon and was using a new tactic to confuse everyone. The other Cylon then of course was Darryl and Elena Tighe. So well done to them for a truly masterful victory and playing cat and mouse with the poor hapless humans.
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