Game Night!
Just 2 people this time so we started with one of our favourite 2 player games.
Battle Line
We actually wanted to start with Battle Line as my friend struggles to beat me at this game. Granted, that makes me sound really horrible but hopefully, a little context will make things clearer!
I played the first game with an open hand and talked through my thought process as I played through the game. Primarily, this was to let my friend see how I played the game so he could try and pick up some tips to try and beat me. Unf, I don't think it helped him much as after winning that game, we played 2 more with closed hands (ie normally) and I promptly beat him twice.
:D
Aliens: This Time its War
After the despair of defeat, my friend wanted to revisit one of his favourites. Primarily as he believes the Aliens player has the advantage in this game as he has managed to win using the Aliens several times. The reality is that, while the game isn't perfectly balanced, it is balanced much better than my friend realises. In case that statement isn't obvious - I won. Twice.
:D
Star Realms
I don't actually have this game in a physical format but only have the app. I recently introduced it to my friend and we took this opportunity for me to teach him the basic strategy to playing the game.
After introducing the concepts to him, I showed him a game against the AI. After this - we naturally had a game one on one. I naturally won as it was effectively his first game. Either way, hopefully, he picked up enough of the basic strategy to get started and we can have a more challenging game at some point in the future.
Thursday, March 10, 2016
Thursday, March 3, 2016
Game Night! - 26 February 2016
Game Night!
We had 5 people turn up so did a repeat of the games that we played in the last Game Night!
Get Bit!
To get ourselves warmed up, we played 3 games of Get Bit!
As always, we had a ton of fun and at one point, were told by "The Man" that we were too noisy. Oops! If nothing else, I guess this proves how much fun we were having!
Also - I managed to win one of the games! Woot!
Castle Ravenloft
As with before, Castle Ravenloft was the main event of the evening.
I actually had some reservations as I'm not convinced that 5 player Castle Ravenloft works - my main concern being that with 5 players, there is too much downtime. This is actually based on a previous experience with playing Castle Ravenloft with 5 players. This time around, things seemed to go a bit better in that the players didn't seem bored during the game. With that said, I'm still not 100% convinced that the game works with 5 (yet).
We took on the Flesh Golem again as four of the players were involved last time when we lost that mission. As such, we were eager for revenge.
We initially tried to calm down the golem but halfway through, we realised that we likely wouldn't have enough time to do so and switched to trying to kill it instead. It was a close thing which ultimately came down to a final dice roll. Our fighter needed to roll a 9 to kill the golem. This was our last chance as, if he failed to do so, we would lose as we were out of healing surges and we had PCs down and out.
Our fighter rolled an 8.
>:(
We had 5 people turn up so did a repeat of the games that we played in the last Game Night!
Get Bit!
To get ourselves warmed up, we played 3 games of Get Bit!
As always, we had a ton of fun and at one point, were told by "The Man" that we were too noisy. Oops! If nothing else, I guess this proves how much fun we were having!
Also - I managed to win one of the games! Woot!
Castle Ravenloft
As with before, Castle Ravenloft was the main event of the evening.
I actually had some reservations as I'm not convinced that 5 player Castle Ravenloft works - my main concern being that with 5 players, there is too much downtime. This is actually based on a previous experience with playing Castle Ravenloft with 5 players. This time around, things seemed to go a bit better in that the players didn't seem bored during the game. With that said, I'm still not 100% convinced that the game works with 5 (yet).
We took on the Flesh Golem again as four of the players were involved last time when we lost that mission. As such, we were eager for revenge.
We initially tried to calm down the golem but halfway through, we realised that we likely wouldn't have enough time to do so and switched to trying to kill it instead. It was a close thing which ultimately came down to a final dice roll. Our fighter needed to roll a 9 to kill the golem. This was our last chance as, if he failed to do so, we would lose as we were out of healing surges and we had PCs down and out.
Our fighter rolled an 8.
>:(
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