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Various Sports themed games courtesy of Mike.

Demarrage (Andy)
800 metres (Bruce)
Raise the Bar (Mike – the famous roll of 18 required on 3d6 to clear the bar)
Aiming for Gold (Bruce)

Phil won the wooden spoon!

Lords of Waterdeep

Andy, Mike, Phil, Bruce and Darryl played this for the first time.  Was fun.  Andy took control of the Docks, Bruce was intriguing, Phil acted the Paladin, Darryl lost a wizard to free drinks and  Mike took an early lead and just held on to claim victory at the final count.

Battlestar Galactica – Ionian Nebula

We kept The Pegasus and Treachery cards in but otherwise this was our first foray into Ionian Nebula.

Mike and Bruce turned out to be Cylons against Phil, Darryl and Andy.  It took ages before any Blue Cylon attack cards were drawn, only after Bruce declared as a Cylon before the penultimate jump and then so many came out at once we had every piece on the board.  Due to food and water shortages we ran out of food very quickly but population remained okay.

Bruce was the only declared Cylon at the Crossroads and unluckily was forced to draw Trauma tokens and was eliminated.  Phil went through 4 characters due to multiple executions (Cain, Adama, Tigh and finished the game with Apollo).  Even Andy was executed due to low morale before the final jump (ending with Chief Tyrrol).  Darryl’s Gaeta ended up being both President and Admiral.  A close win for the humans with food, morale and fuel all in the low red (about 1 or 2) and population just a little higher at 3 or 4.  Bruce was left cursing…if it hadn’t been for all those trauma tokens at the Crossroads he would have had those pesky humans at the battle of the Ionian Nebula.

Mansions of Madness

Forbidden Alchemy

Mike played evil overlord as Phil, Darryl, Bruce and Andy took on Herbert West.  Darryl burnt his first character Darrel the Flashwit to death but his sacrifice was not in vain as it led the adventurers to the chemistry set.  They were then able to use this to escape the machinations of West and his slow but deadly zombie horde.  This was a tough one.  With the zombies and very few guns there was a lot of melee combat and the fire also dealt a great deal of Health damage.