Sunday 6th July 2014

Campaign Game

 The French attempted a breakout in Spain against an allied army.

Apparently according to (biased) sources the French only took 5" of land across the river.

In reality I've been told the breakout was a succes with most loses being rolled back for the French.

Heres a few pics -

Talisman

We had some friends come round last night for a six player game of Talisman with our two new expansions the city and nether realm. We also had reaper, highlands and fire lands on the go. Three new players with three who played before all with characters from the city.

Game started slow with the reaper getting a few moves early on. After not many turns Liam sent the reaper to me (Ste) which I then rolled well on and bounced it back to him which killed him, new character selected at random the troll. Game moved on with slow build up then some players being killed off. 

A bit of cat and mouse over the only two talismans in the game after a couple of hours, I stole one of Paul and made a dash for the crown which bounced me out. Next Paul got a talisman and tried his luck, tavern for him. Liam got reaper again and killed of again, don't dance with the reaper three kills to him by game end. Jack killed me to get my talisman and made for the crown. He made it to the middle to start Pandora's box. Pandora's box was brutal, killed of me Paul, Liam first round. Next he set his sights on Bailey, bye bye. That left Andy and Jack. Andy put up a good fight but the out come was always on the cards. Jack got the kill with cards to spare.

Great night, in hind sight maybe played to many expansions with the new players due to many choices and diluted card deck.

Well played jack coming to get ya next time!

Geek List

Me and Bailey have a few board games between us now with a few expansions. We have listed our games on boardgame geek.com which is a very good for information and help etc. I also watch a lot of Tom Vassel on the dicetower.com, I really like the top ten lists which comes across as three friends having a good time above all doing what they enjoy.

Our geek list-

http://boardgamegeek.com/collection/user/mawsshadow

Battle Flag

Monday nights game was of battle flag. The game was based on a possible engagement at the start of WW1 were the British wanted to stop a German battleship from reaching Turkish waters. In the real event the British Admarial decided his four armoured cruisers were out matched and did not engage. 

In tonight's game the Geman battleship turned to the right to avoid the British cruisers and keep them at extreme range. The battleship did some minor damage at range, but when the two fleets closed in the bigger German guns started to take their toll on the British. One cruiser got sunk by continued bombardment, number two got a critical hit and sunk. The German light cruiser ramed a cruiser to give some room. The third British cruiser got sunk from a good salvo. We called the game at this point with a German win. Three British cruisers sunk, one damaged and leaking. The German battleship was damaged but had not lost all it's hit points. 

Maybe the British Admarial was right!

Close Race

Me and B had a game of Formula d the other night on the new track I got. One quick lap went quicker than expected so we had two more races on two different tracks, restarted each race on the grid but kept the damage from race to race. Played very well and no one got to far ahead/behind due to restarting on the grid. Nice veriant to play with low numbers of players to get some laps in. I managed the win but as you can see both cars were wrecked!!!!

Zombicide

Played Zombicide at MAWS on Monday. Played very well with three new players and me and Bailey only a few games in our selves. A few house rules to help with game play. We were doing very well to start with and got most of the objectives but as the game went on the zombies mounted up. Bailey pushed his luck and got eaten which started the fall. We all died to clear the route for Rob. Rob just needed to reach the last objective with his slippery character but the walkers card gave all runners an extra turn. Run forest!!! All now walkers!!!!

Thunderstone

Played our first game of Thunderstone last night. Took longer than expected, with a few rule errors which I checked up on this morning. Enjoyed the game and the theme was very good. Need a few more games yet.