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Phil, Alex and Mike carried on their Rebellion against Darryl’s imperials.  They chose the Homecoming mission.  This involved helping Luke Skwalker get into his garage.  The heroes raced through the Trandoshans and the Nexus.  The stormtroopers retreated towards the terminal.  Phil and Luke raced towards the terminal.  Opening the doors on the fourth turn using the terminal revealed the defenders hidden inside the garage.  Mike and Alex took out the defenders whilst Phil kept Vader distracted and opened crates.  Luke ran into the garage.  A rebel victory followed and the players used their credits to buy a targeting computer for Alex and to pay off Darryl’s nasty Imperial Influence card.  

Phil, Mike, Bruce, Darryl and Alex gathered for Christmas games night. First off we played Shadows over Camelot. The first Traitor /cooperative game that we had not played since 2011. The Knights were doing reasonably well though the grail quest was proving impossible when Phil drew a card that placed two more siege engines in one go outside camelot. Rather than risk another draw Darryl decided to place a penultimate one so he could complete his quest. This then left a traitorous Alex simply to add one more to make twelve and claim victory.

Determined to do better we played again and this time decided to complete the grail quest first then launcelot’s armour and excalibur! Soon the players completed the twelve swords and claimed victory leaving a cursing bruce to slink off traitorously away.

We then played some good card games based on timeline which were quite fun.

On Saturday 14th November we played Pandemic, Thunderbirds and Hobbit Love Letter.

Darryl, Phil, Mike and Bruce played Pandemic.  I think we lost one and won one game of that thus saving the world from the plague.  I think we were okay on easy mode but when we added more Epidemic Cards we soon got overwhelmed.

Then we played Thunderbirds.  We played this last week too and it is a very good game.  We managed to save the World by doing lots of Space Missions and thwarting Hood’s evil plans.  Next time we will try a harder difficulty setting as so far we have tried the Introductory difficulty.  It took us a game or two to find our direction and in our great tradition we will doubtless lose on the harder settings now every time.

We finally played The Hobbit Card Game based on Love Letter.  We have played the batman one not so long ago.  This is a good game with lots of twists and turns.  Darryl won that.

The weeks before we have played some other good games.  We managed to get my new Dungeon Saga game from Mantic Games out.  Alex played too.  We had run the first two scenarios before so we ran the third one where the four adventurer’s meet up.  It was a close thing as the Wizard and the Barbarian were close to being defeated but the Heroes managed to break the Wards on the Final Door just in time whilst the Dwarf and the Elf kept the Undead busy.  I would like to play this one again, especially if I get time to use my 3D terrain.

We also played the Witcher Board game.  I think this was fairly good to play.  Everyone seemed to enjoy the challenge.  Alex seemed to be struggling with Dandelion but actually accumulated lots of VPs by the end.  Mike was steaming ahead with Geralt himself.  Phil thought he was doing quite well with the Dwarf, taking an early lead but actually came last as Mike claimed a well earned victory.

We also played Cthulhu Flux again.

Darryl and Phil played C and C N.  Phil had a copy since launch but had never played.  Darryl was imperiously victorious the first two games.  The second was memorable for the massacre of the Portuguese in the narrow gully.  But with some advice and luck Phil managed to rescue the situation in the final game.  This time Phil was on the attack again but with the French and his Heavy Cavalry just sneaked the final flag before it was too late.  Very enjoyable days gaming indeed.

Mike and Phil’s Rebels took on Alex and Bruce’s Tie Fighters.  Initially the 8 rebels took out 3 tie fighters and looked ready to take out the required six of eightenemy first.  However bruce’s ace pilot soon levelled the score and with three more rebels taken out with just one more tie fighter the Empire claimed victory!

We got half way through.  Orks and Space Marines had 1VP each but Eldar were looking strong.  Chaos Marines were a little behind but had a good home defence force in place and Space Marines would need to move back to defend their home from the Orks next turn.

Amazingly successful victory in the final fight against the Priestess of Lolth.  However two players had upgraded to level two working together to deliver 9 dmg in one round.  The other two players had just 1HP remaining each.  But still it was a fantastic win.

Mike, Phil, Alex and Bruce played a Cthulhu game and actually won!  Just the introductory scenario.

Mike won the record for going through three characters in just 1 game!

Mike introduced us to Nations and we also played High Society which was fun.

Phil, Mike, Darryl and Bruce played into the Pit, the Khazad Dum first scenario for LoTR LCG.  After an initially difficult start where Mike’s Aragorn was defeated by a lucky strike from an Orc Patrol Leader (an extra plus one Shadow Card bonus as he was the last player) the players managed to defeat the scenario.  In just 4-5 turns they scored about 205 points between them which is not so bad.  This is the first Multiplayer Scenario the team have won.  As Darryl pointed out the new cards and decks really made a difference as now the team where able to actually do things with the cards.   The Decks used were Dain and Thorin’s Company, Elrond and Vilya, Legolas and Eowyn, with Aragorn as Sentinel.  They worked very well together with Aragorn as Defender, Legolas as Destroyer plus Dain and Elrond as multi-purpose.

Next we started but did not finish a game of Star Wars were Bruce played Darth on the first turn and then quickly destroyed any Jedi including Luke who left the academy.  However the Rebels did manage to destroy 1 base so it was not all bad for them.