Game Night! - 30 September 2016

Game Night!

We had a group of 6 again so continue with our current zombie craze.

Zombie game
We went for one of the downloadable custom missions this time around.  Basically, we had to go and find the key to the local weapon store before stocking up on weapons and escaping from the map.  Things went fairly well but we did have an issue midway through when the one door out of the building got blocked off by an abomination.

Frantic searching, aided by a flashlight, did get us the molotov cocktail in time which allowed us to deal with it.  Overall, we did well this mission as we had zero deaths!

Methinks its time to up the difficulty.

Get Bit!
We were late starting so it was fairly late by the time we finished up the zombie game.  We did have time to get in one game though.  We had an extra player for this last game so there were 7 of us.  As you can imagine, absolute chaos reigned before the latecomer ended up winning.

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.
>:(

Game Night! - 29 January 2015

Another game night so soon?  Be still, my beating heart!!

Making up for a shortage of game nights in recent months, we decided to have a double in January.  Good thing too as last week only had a turnout of 2 people.  We originally had 5 people scheduled for this weeks game night but only 4 showed up.

Get Bit!
We started off with a simple game of Get Bit!  Or rather, 3 games of Get Bit!

As always, the game went down extremely well and was really popular with the group.  It's actually been a while since I played and I have to admit that this is a pretty great filler game.  It's quick, fun while having just a little bit of brainpower needed and at the same time, it's always amusing to pull arms and legs off the little toy pirates!

I lost the first game but did manage to pull out a win in the next two (as usual, we played with my house rules where the game ends as soon as 1 person is eliminated).  To be honest, I'm still not sure how I managed to win twice!

Castle Ravenloft
We then moved onto the main event of the evening - Castle Ravenloft.

This is a game which I always enjoy playing even though it's a relatively simple dungeon crawl.  We decided to take on the Flesh Golem which the others hadn't faced before (but which I had in a previous solo game).  The Flesh Golem is a really good mission and can end in a really exciting manner as you end up in a running fight through the dungeon.

Unfortunately, due to the way the cards played out, we drew the Flesh Golem only 2 squares away from the Start tile.  This didn't give quite the running battle I had initially hoped for.

It was a close battle but we did end up losing.  :(

Game Night! - 23 January 2015

Friday was Game Night!

We had another group of 4 this time around and a mix of relatively quicker games.

Yomi
We started off with my Kickstarter edition of Yomi.  Well, I say Kickstarter edition but the only difference is that I got the cards before they hit retail.

Two of the players were new to the game so we started off with rules explanations.  Once that was done, we paired off to slug it out.

I controlled Jaina and my opponent had Gwen.  Looking at Gwen stats, I was initially concerned as she was very attack heavy, just like Jaina.  However, Gwen was much faster and had a higher combo.

Nonetheless, the first game went my way as my opponent was still learning the game.  By the second match, he was up to speed and managed to wipe the floor with me as he managed to get in two big hits with double Ace's.

The third match was the decider and things did not get off to a good start as he, once again, managed to get off a big double Ace.  Luckily, I managed to hit back hard with my own triple Ace and we took it down to the wire.  In the last round, we were both running low on health.

Luckily, a good read on my part allowed me to get off a big hit and combo which ended the match!

2:1 in my favour!

Get Bit!
After Yomi, we decided to relax by playing Get Bit!

We only managed to fit in one game but, as always, we had a lot of fun laughing at the poor sod with partly eaten arms and legs.  Unfortunately, in this case, that poor sod was me.

6 nimmt
By now the group started to break up and we were down to three.  One of the other people had brought this game so we decided to try it out.  Unfortunately, the rules explanation was a bit garbled as the owner didn't really remember the rules.

After the first learning game, we decided to play again with the "proper" rules.  Unfortunately, halfway through the game, those rules changed again!  It's a relatively simple game anyway so we decided to play 2 more games with the "proper proper" rules.

Despite being new to the game, I managed to pull off 2 wins so fairly chuffed, all things considered.

PS Even with the "proper proper" rules, something about them felt off so I looked up the game today to check out the official rules.  Turns out that the "proper proper" rules we were using were still incorrect!
PPS The first sign that you have played too many games is when someone explains the rules of a game to you and, despite having no awareness of the game before, you correctly identify the incorrect rule in the rules explanation.

Aliens:This Time It's War
By now, it was getting late so we whipped out Aliens for a quick 2 player game to round off the night.  This is the game that I soloed recently with the Aliens win.

As usual, I was the marines while my buddy controlled the Aliens.  Unfortunately, a bad run of card draws on my end resulted in a relatively easy win for the Aliens.  :(

Still, at least my friend was delighted to finally add another tick to his win column.