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.