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Phil umpired whilst Darryl and Bruce played the Dwarves against Alex and Mike as the Goblins.  The Dwarves planned on retaking the halls and entered via the sewers and secret passages to begin their attack.

The Dwarves had Artillery and a Chariot which proved very powerful.  The Goblins did not really have an answer.  Eventually though they sent in the Trolls who slew the Dwarven King which caused a collapse of the Dwarven morale.  Because they had been defending the baseline on my quite small battlefield forcing the goblins to advance under heavy artillery fire when they retreated one space they fled the table!  So even though it did not feel like it the Goblins won the day as the dwarves fell back to mourn their King whilst the sub-commander and his force formed a stalwart rear guard.

Off to Bruce for Target for Today. Bruce had done some great research for a raid over Roumania. Phil and DARRYL got shot down over the target. Phil took only one hit from Flak but that was enough to shoot off his wing. Darryl caught fire.

Alex and Mike missed the target completely and made it back safely . DARRYL’s pilot and two of phil’s crew survived the crashes to be imprisoned .

Next was ticket to ride. A new old version with passengers . Good edition. Phil narrowly beat Bruce to claim victory by completing slightly better tickets. Mike led all the way through the game but neglected his passengers so only claimed third place with Alex just behind and DARRYL in last place as they both had unfinished tickets at the end.

Then Bruce won the first round of cards and Phil the second.

Phil, Darryl and Alex played as the allies versus Bruce, and Two Mikes as the Axis.

Prelude caused the British to start in West Europe and Germans adjacent to Russia in East Europe.  Japan had the sea of Japan.  Over the game Italy and Germany held their own whilst Japan sailed triumphant unopposed in the Pacific.  Kamikaze pilots put paid to Pearl Harbour and USA moved west.

Eventually Russia and the allies wore Italy and Germany down and begun to take keys and force VP losses in Europe with bombing.  So by the late war they began to take an unassailable lead.

Next  Libertalia.  Phil took an early lead but made himself a target.  Bruce was close behind.  In the final turn Phil left himself exposed to a monkey shifting curses by playing his captain and Bruce did just that causing him to lose 18VP!  This left the way open for Darryl  to grab a victory!

So Darryl was the winner over both the games indeed!

High elves, standard citadel paints with contrast paint for cloaks.  Picked up at a show and then re-painted to fit with my existing high elves.

Also

Helmingas Command

Defenders of Helm’s deep.

Sons of Eorl

Eowyn and Merry

Phil, Darryl and Bruce played as the axis versus Allies Alex and the two Mikes.

We used the new prelude cards which proved an interesting addition helping some nations get a start early with deployment and others such as Britain or Germany prepare some cards in readiness for war .

Then the war started . Italy created an African and Mediterranean empire whilst Germany and Russia faced off each preparing for war rather than fighting for a very long time .

Japan got quite a slow start whilst the British empire reigned supreme with both Africa and Australia and knocking Japan out of China.

America prepared for the later war and began to expand in the seas around the Pacific.

Eventually Italy knocked the British out of India and moved into France so as to allow Germany to concentrate on Russia and Japan on Britain.

Coupled with raking in most of the axis vp this proved too much for America who switched theatres rapidly to Europe.

Then America and Britain teamed up to destroy the Italian empire. This forced Italy to expand towards the Balkans and the Ukraine instead in support of Germany. Eventually Germany was able to take out Moscow but was exhausted in the effort to do so . The allies both landed in France and began hurting Italy with economic warfare . About thirty points told over the war with 27 from the USA right at the end when Italy was out of cards . That’s a lot of vp down.

However between them and plundering Russia and a resurgent Japanese the axis where just able to hang onto their middle game lead in the final turn . They never managed the thirty point vp gap win because of USA economic warfare but they did win on VP at the end of the final turn.

Was fun.

Next we played ticket to ride asia which is a team game . This was a great new twist on an old classic .

Two mikes got a nice long train route bonus and Alex and Darryl missed out on their last ticket when two mikes ended the game . However Bruce and Phil were able to complete the most tickets including a nice high scoring route to grab victory with the bonus points from the most tickets completed.

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