My new Dux Brit rules and cards have arrived. The raiders expansion adds more options to field raiders from the barbarian lands against my beleagured Romano British. Very good they look too with lots of well produced art and plenty of story background to fuel interest. Hope to get these on the table soon.
Dux Brit: Raiders rules have arrived. Leave a comment
Monday 8th September: New game on order; Battle of the Five Armies Leave a comment
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.
Saturday 29th August: Spartacus Leave a comment
A sort of victory by Bruce against Phil, Mike, Andy and Darryl. He was the first to get to 12 influence by cashing in his cards right at the end. Was lots of fun with some great duels though Mike mainly beat up poor Darryl’s slaves in the arena whenever he could.
Saturday 22nd August: Firefly Leave a comment
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.
Saturday 16th August: Bolt Action Leave a comment
Phil and Mike played Bolt Action. Phil’s Russians successfully attacked the fuel dump from the defending germans.
Saturday July 19th Battlestar Galactica Leave a comment
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.
Saturday 7th June: World Cup Leave a comment
Mike, Phil, Andy and Bruce played this old favourite.
Mike was first out unexpectedly despite starting with Spain and Argentina. Phil got Germany through to the final against Bruce’s South Korea. Andy’s Netherlands only made it to the 3rd place play off against another of Bruce’s teams.
In the final round Bruce was not phased by having two teams to play for as he drew mainly 2 goal and 1 goal cards. Phil only drew attack and defence cards. So South. Korea won the World Cup beating Germany 4-2 in the final.
Well done Bruce who grabbed 3rd place too!
Saturday 24th May: Firefly goes Pirate Leave a comment
We played the Firefly pirate expansion with the Pirate PvP quest. Phil took an early lead by picking on Andy to grab Goal tokens but not as much money as he needed. Bruce and Darryl carefully built up their forces, biding their time. Mike then picked on Phil and stole his hard won tokens to claim Victory.
Not sure about the Pirate expansion. Certainly this scenario was all about being mean which is kind of hard in a building game. It feels like kicking down people’s sand castles. Perhaps a different scenario will make it less of a problem.
Saturday 10th May: Lords of Waterdeep, Various Leave a comment
Mike, Phil, Bruce, Andy and James the Younger.
We played Phil’s Waterdeep game with the Undermountain expansion. Phil had been practicing on his ipad but only narrowly avoided coming in last place. James beat Bruce in a winning tie to claim Victory. Well done.
We also played sharks and swimmers game called Get Bit which Phil won and a Tides and Sheep game and finally a game of Bluff both of which Mike won.
Saturday 3rd May: Battlelore 2 Leave a comment
Mike and Phil played two games and won one each.
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