I recently got a surprise when I found out that one of my friends read this blog (Hi!!). Luckily, I hadn't said anything bad about him.
:D
My posts about Hearthstone got him interested in the game as well. As a result, he recently installed it and has started learning the game by playing against the practice bot. Not sure how far he has gotten but he did say that he was still in the process of unlocking all the basic characters.
I actually came across him the other day online while he was playing. Figuring that he might have a custom deck by now, I built up a deck using just basic cards and challenged him to a match. After wiping the floor with him, I found out that he was still using just the basic decks and hadn't yet built his own deck.
Boy, do I feel like an a$$hole!
Thursday, October 8, 2015
Thursday, October 1, 2015
Game Night! - 30 September 2015
We had another group of 4 with 2 newbies. With that said, the 2 newbies seemed to pick up the rules to the games we played pretty quickly and seemed to enjoy themselves so there is hope they might come more regularly.
The Agents
Once again, we started with the Agents. This was primarily because the game was already out as the host and I tried to sneak in a quick game while we were waiting for the 2 newbies to arrive. Unfortunately, we didn't get very far but as the game was setup anyway, we decided to start with this game.
The host managed to get the win (his first win at this game!) with some good combinations of missions and agents. Grrr - I shall have my revenge next time!
Castle Ravenloft
Next up was Castle Ravenloft. This turned out to be a good choice as one of the newbies had played cRPGs before so was quite keen to play a mini's based board game. We took on Klak as we wanted a boss to go up against but at the same time, wanted a mission that wasn't too hard given the 2 newbies.
Good choice as we ended up winning the game without using a single healing surge!
I ended up playing the Rogue - the first time I've played the Rogue. I have to admit, the rogue is better than I first gave her credit for. Her ability to disarm traps more easily seemed too situation specific to be really useful so I never really ranked her. However, she has some nice abilities which make her useful outside of her ability to disarm traps. Would play again!
The Agents
Once again, we started with the Agents. This was primarily because the game was already out as the host and I tried to sneak in a quick game while we were waiting for the 2 newbies to arrive. Unfortunately, we didn't get very far but as the game was setup anyway, we decided to start with this game.
The host managed to get the win (his first win at this game!) with some good combinations of missions and agents. Grrr - I shall have my revenge next time!
Castle Ravenloft
Next up was Castle Ravenloft. This turned out to be a good choice as one of the newbies had played cRPGs before so was quite keen to play a mini's based board game. We took on Klak as we wanted a boss to go up against but at the same time, wanted a mission that wasn't too hard given the 2 newbies.
Good choice as we ended up winning the game without using a single healing surge!
I ended up playing the Rogue - the first time I've played the Rogue. I have to admit, the rogue is better than I first gave her credit for. Her ability to disarm traps more easily seemed too situation specific to be really useful so I never really ranked her. However, she has some nice abilities which make her useful outside of her ability to disarm traps. Would play again!
Thursday, September 10, 2015
Castle Ravenloft - Flesh Golem!
Felt like a dungeon crawl for my Sunday Mini Game Day this week so ended up pulling out Castle Ravenloft. It's a fun game which is pretty simple and quick to play (approx 1 hour) so good for a quick dungeon crawl experience.
More details of my session on BGG here.
More details of my session on BGG here.
Thursday, September 3, 2015
Game Night! - 28 August 2015
It's been a while since my last game night so it was good to get another one in last Friday. We had a group of 3 which, while not great, is actually a decent number for several of my games.
The Agents
We started off with two games of The Agents. Three players is probably the best player count for this game as it means that each player can effect each other player.
I managed to get a win in the first game but lost in the second game. The second game was interesting as I lost due to some bad valuation play by one of my opponents. The board was setup such that the player who won was getting a stackload of points each round from a combo which I couldn't impact. The other player was also unwilling to destroy that combo as he was getting 4 points off it each round (whereas the winner was getting approx 7-10 points off it).
That player also makes this same valuation mistake. He overvalues points to himself instead of valuing actions based on the relative swing in the game. If he had destroyed the combo board position, he would have gotten a +3-6 point swing in his favour even though he wasn't getting the 4 points.
I would complain except that this kind of bad valuation allows me to beat him most of the time as well.
:)
Monopoly Deal
This was actually my friends game which he had been playing 2 player before I showed up.
I managed to win both of the games we played of this. The play of the night though was when one of my opponents played a house on one of his full sets. I managed to steal the entire set, built a hotel on the set and then played double rent. I managed to get $60M in one round and managed to wipe the board clean for one of my opponents.
Legen-wait for it-dary!
Yomi
Last game of the night and we went back to our current favourite - Yomi!
As there were 3 of us, we decided to try out the 2 vs 1 variant of this game. However, rather than the standard hero, we decided to try out the Deathstrike Dragon. I took control of the Dragon while my opponents picked Geiger and Zane. My main opponent on this game picked Zane while the other player, who was relatively new to Yomi, went with Geiger.
And I basically wiped the floor with them.
To be fair, that Dragon is amazingly powerful. Granted, I did get some good reads which really helped me but even so, the Dragon is powerful to the point of being overpowered.
Still - 3 wins. :)
The Agents
We started off with two games of The Agents. Three players is probably the best player count for this game as it means that each player can effect each other player.
I managed to get a win in the first game but lost in the second game. The second game was interesting as I lost due to some bad valuation play by one of my opponents. The board was setup such that the player who won was getting a stackload of points each round from a combo which I couldn't impact. The other player was also unwilling to destroy that combo as he was getting 4 points off it each round (whereas the winner was getting approx 7-10 points off it).
That player also makes this same valuation mistake. He overvalues points to himself instead of valuing actions based on the relative swing in the game. If he had destroyed the combo board position, he would have gotten a +3-6 point swing in his favour even though he wasn't getting the 4 points.
I would complain except that this kind of bad valuation allows me to beat him most of the time as well.
:)
Monopoly Deal
This was actually my friends game which he had been playing 2 player before I showed up.
I managed to win both of the games we played of this. The play of the night though was when one of my opponents played a house on one of his full sets. I managed to steal the entire set, built a hotel on the set and then played double rent. I managed to get $60M in one round and managed to wipe the board clean for one of my opponents.
Legen-wait for it-dary!
Yomi
Last game of the night and we went back to our current favourite - Yomi!
As there were 3 of us, we decided to try out the 2 vs 1 variant of this game. However, rather than the standard hero, we decided to try out the Deathstrike Dragon. I took control of the Dragon while my opponents picked Geiger and Zane. My main opponent on this game picked Zane while the other player, who was relatively new to Yomi, went with Geiger.
And I basically wiped the floor with them.
To be fair, that Dragon is amazingly powerful. Granted, I did get some good reads which really helped me but even so, the Dragon is powerful to the point of being overpowered.
Still - 3 wins. :)
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