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Two great games of Colt Express with J, D, M and P.  J won both times!

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!

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.

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 .

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.

Painting notes.

Spray paint army painter leather brown. Then add in dark granite for skin areas and gold, bolt metal, bronze mix for decorations. Chain mail for sword blade. Graveyard earth for bringing out correcting any bandages over skin areas. Strong brown wash. Sand mix base. Graveyard earth base. Highlight bone white. Spray varnish Testors dullcote.