Another Thursday night gaming session has come and gone, and I’m pretty pleased with the games we got to play. Arkham Horror is one of the grand classics of the current age of board games. Although there was a version was originally published by Chaosium in 1987, the 2005 redesign by Fantasy Flight Games made it into one of the best co-operative games; a game … Continue reading Arkham Horror, Russian Railroads and Nations
Continuing on my way through the Against the Shadow quests for The Lord of the Rings card game, I’ve reached Encounter at Amon-Dîn. This pack took a very long time to arrive at Goodgames Ballarat – some months, in fact after it was meant to. Despite being extremely impatient for it to arrive, I haven’t gotten around to playing it until now. The story of … Continue reading Encounter at Amon-Dîn – The Lord of the Rings card game
Last Saturday, I played in a small (ok, very small) tournament for Netrunner. Having it on Easter weekend when a few players were away doesn’t make for great numbers. We had four participants! I played a Whizzard deck and a Haas Bioroid: Engineering the Future deck and won all my four games. Yes, we just had the two rounds. The games were great fun to … Continue reading Netrunner thoughts
After the major difficulty with completing The Steward’s Fear, The Drúadan Forest proved a much simpler animal to tame. I went into it with the same deck that I used in the previous scenario, and after one game where I was entirely destroyed within three turns due to a particularly nasty draw, the next game saw my band of Elrond, Glorfindel and Beravor easily defeat … Continue reading The Drúadan Forest – The Lord of the Rings Card Game
Hooray! Barely a couple of hours since I wrote of my week of failing to get through The Steward’s Fear, I’ve managed to complete it. Once. I’m not sure if the deck could do it again, but once is enough for now. Once I’ve succeeded at all the LotR quests, there’ll be time to go back and try and do them better. J The deck … Continue reading Finished “The Steward’s Fear”! – The Lord of the Rings: The Card Game
We’re moving towards the end of this D&D Encounters season, and this session began with Josh getting drunk. Well, Josh’s character at least. Returning to Daggerford, our half-orc bard felt that his best course of action was to find the owner of the Floshin estate (Darfin Floshin) and persuade him to hand over the manor to the party. Lily, Danielle and Josh had very much … Continue reading D&D Encounters: Scourge of the Sword Coast session 10
Glen, Richard, Josh and I played a game of Talisman yesterday, the first I’ve played in some time and the first ever for Glen. I’ve just picked up a couple of new expansions, and I wanted to give one of them, The Firelands, a try. It was one of the most horrible games I’ve ever played of Talisman. I found it grimly amusing; it was … Continue reading Talisman report: The Firelands
The third scenario of ASL Starter Kit #3 is an engagement between American Paratroopers and Germans in Sicily, 1943. The set-up for the scenario is moderately involved. First, the American player splits his paratroopers into two groups and selects target hexes for each group to be dropped into. The first group is then “dropper” – basically, you roll two dice, one die giving direction and … Continue reading Advanced Squad Leader report: S22 Another Summer’s Day
Michael and I have finally reached the first of the scenarios involving tanks in the ASL Starter Kits. And, just to get us into the hang of using them, the scenario has nothing but tanks in it! The Russians have ten tanks, the Germans have six, with two of the German tanks being the famed Tigers. The setting is Borisovka in Russia on the 14th … Continue reading Advanced Squad Leader report: S21 Clash at Borisovka
The ninth session of our Scourge of the Sword Coast campaign saw us down a DM: Paul is on holiday, and his replacement (which we’d organised weeks ago) couldn’t make it. Thankfully, we were able to run just the two tables, with six players on each table. Strangely enough, seven of the players had played most of their sessions on my table, but as Harry … Continue reading D&D Encounters: Scourge of the Sword Coast session 9
