Game Night! - 27 March 2015

Game Night again!

Unfortunately, we had a last minute drop out which impacted our plans a little.  Luckily, I had a perfect 3 player game which was able to fill the gap nicely.

Yomi
As with last time, we started off with Yomi.  There was 1 new player so we only played 1-on-1 games (with me helping the newbie playing with rules on the first game).  I did manage to get in 2 games myself though - one against the newbie and the other against my Yomi nemesis (as he generally beats me).

I was playing Setsuki this time.  Setsuki is a super fast ninja who benefits from dumping her hand which is a fairly cool concept.  This really threw my opponents for a loop as my attacks being so fast meant that they could only realistically beat my attack by using dodge or block.  Naturally, they then had to worry about me pulling a throw and dumping my hand on them again!

A couple of good reads meant that I won both of my games although it was a close thing in both cases.

The Agents
This was another game I got via Kickstarter.  I didn't actually pay for the full game though.  I only bought the PnP option.  After getting the pdf files, I then cut them up and got them professionally printed online.

The final result is a close-to-commercial product which looks pretty good.  Not perfect as the card alignment isn't perfect but pretty good quality none-the-less.

The game itself is a card game with a pretty unique mechanic.

Each card represents a secret agent and has a different top and bottom.  Each time you play a card, one side faces you and the other side faces one of your opponents.  This basically means that each time you play a card, you are benefiting one of your opponents as well as yourself.  As you can imagine, this makes the game an interesting calculation of which side to play to maximise your benefit while minimising any benefit your opponent gets.

We only managed to get in one game but we had a ton of fun - with major laughs throughout the game.

The game had a really close finish too as all of us were within touching distance of winning.  One of my opponents ended up 1 point short and he was desperately trying to figure out how to get that one extra point to get the win.  Luckily for me, he didn't manage it and I was able to win on my next turn.

Booyah!