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. :)
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Thursday, September 3, 2015
Thursday, July 9, 2015
Game Night! - 3 July 2015
Due to a conflux of some unfortunate situations, game nights have been a bit of a rare breed recently. Regardless, I did manage to get another session in last Friday. Woot!
Yomi
We started off with our current favourite - Yomi!
After going up against Onimaru last time, I actually thought he was a pretty intriguing character. As my friend was interested in trying out another new character, I took the opportunity to try out Onimaru. And he really is a ton of fun to play!
Unlike other characters, Onimaru doesn't actually have any combo points. He makes up for this by having massively damaging attacks. Basically, with Onimaru, getting hit at all is going to hurt.
Meanwhile, my friend tried out Zane. Not really sure what to make of Zane. Looking at his cards and abilities, I couldn't immediately discern what strategy he would adopt and judging by the way my friend played - I don't think he knew what strategy to adopt either.
Ultimately, a 3-1 win to myself as I pasted the floor with him.
:)
Aliens: This time it's War
My friend really likes this game as he is on a winning streak against me (now having won 2 games in a row). He normally plays the Aliens and believes that the Aliens have an advantage in this game as they can see what the Marine player does before deciding how to react to it.
I'm not sure that is the case but it's getting harder and harder to put up a counter-argument as he managed to get another 2 wins. That now makes it 4 in a row! Inconceivable!!
Interestingly, we came up with an issue with one of the cards. One of the cards allows me to kill off 2 of my marines to clear out all Aliens in the current battlefield. I played that card and then played another card to prevent one of the marine kills. My friend was of the belief that this meant I didn't satisfy the condition on the first card (2 marine kills) hence I couldn't kill all his Aliens. Naturally, I disagreed (or I wouldn't have played the card).
After the game ended, I posted the query to BGG and it turns out that my friend may have had the correct interpretation.
:(
Battle Line
We ended the night with 2 games of Battle Line. This is one of my favourite games so it was great to end the night with it.
The match ended 1:1. The second match was a doozy as it went right down to the wire. I didn't actually get very good cards but it shows the strength of this game that, even with poor cards, I was able to push my friend down to the wire before he was able to beat me.
Great strategy game with simple rules but fantastic strategic depth.
Yomi
We started off with our current favourite - Yomi!
After going up against Onimaru last time, I actually thought he was a pretty intriguing character. As my friend was interested in trying out another new character, I took the opportunity to try out Onimaru. And he really is a ton of fun to play!
Unlike other characters, Onimaru doesn't actually have any combo points. He makes up for this by having massively damaging attacks. Basically, with Onimaru, getting hit at all is going to hurt.
Meanwhile, my friend tried out Zane. Not really sure what to make of Zane. Looking at his cards and abilities, I couldn't immediately discern what strategy he would adopt and judging by the way my friend played - I don't think he knew what strategy to adopt either.
Ultimately, a 3-1 win to myself as I pasted the floor with him.
:)
Aliens: This time it's War
My friend really likes this game as he is on a winning streak against me (now having won 2 games in a row). He normally plays the Aliens and believes that the Aliens have an advantage in this game as they can see what the Marine player does before deciding how to react to it.
I'm not sure that is the case but it's getting harder and harder to put up a counter-argument as he managed to get another 2 wins. That now makes it 4 in a row! Inconceivable!!
Interestingly, we came up with an issue with one of the cards. One of the cards allows me to kill off 2 of my marines to clear out all Aliens in the current battlefield. I played that card and then played another card to prevent one of the marine kills. My friend was of the belief that this meant I didn't satisfy the condition on the first card (2 marine kills) hence I couldn't kill all his Aliens. Naturally, I disagreed (or I wouldn't have played the card).
After the game ended, I posted the query to BGG and it turns out that my friend may have had the correct interpretation.
:(
Battle Line
We ended the night with 2 games of Battle Line. This is one of my favourite games so it was great to end the night with it.
The match ended 1:1. The second match was a doozy as it went right down to the wire. I didn't actually get very good cards but it shows the strength of this game that, even with poor cards, I was able to push my friend down to the wire before he was able to beat me.
Great strategy game with simple rules but fantastic strategic depth.
Thursday, May 21, 2015
Game Night! - 15 May 2015
Woohoo - another game night!
Didn't get a lot of games in as it was a short game night. Still, had a lot of fun so that's a definite tick in the win column!
Aliens: This time it's war
We started out the night with a quick 2 player game of Aliens: TTIW. I was the marines again while my friend played the Aliens.
Unfortunately, I wasn't able to pull many Ops cards and this allowed my friend to wipe out my marines with alarming ease. To an extent, this is one of the problems of the game - it is very heavily reliant on luck and there isn't much you can do to mitigate that (unlike say, CCGs where you can build your deck to have more card draw etc). Unfortunately, this makes it 2 wins in a row for my friend.
>:(
Really need to put a stop to his run the next time we play!
Yomi
We wrapped up with Yomi - our current favourite.
I continued with Setsuki while my friend tried out a new character - Onimaru. Onimaru is an attack heavy character who can't do combo's but is very card efficient in doing damage to make up for it. As a result, he doesn't need to win combat too often in order to kill off other characters - particularly for Setsuki as her health is only 70.
This resulted in a very nervy game as each move had to be carefully plotted to try and outguess what card he was going to play.
Ultimately, I managed to out-play my opponent and racked up 2 wins.
Didn't get a lot of games in as it was a short game night. Still, had a lot of fun so that's a definite tick in the win column!
Aliens: This time it's war
We started out the night with a quick 2 player game of Aliens: TTIW. I was the marines again while my friend played the Aliens.
Unfortunately, I wasn't able to pull many Ops cards and this allowed my friend to wipe out my marines with alarming ease. To an extent, this is one of the problems of the game - it is very heavily reliant on luck and there isn't much you can do to mitigate that (unlike say, CCGs where you can build your deck to have more card draw etc). Unfortunately, this makes it 2 wins in a row for my friend.
>:(
Really need to put a stop to his run the next time we play!
Yomi
We wrapped up with Yomi - our current favourite.
I continued with Setsuki while my friend tried out a new character - Onimaru. Onimaru is an attack heavy character who can't do combo's but is very card efficient in doing damage to make up for it. As a result, he doesn't need to win combat too often in order to kill off other characters - particularly for Setsuki as her health is only 70.
This resulted in a very nervy game as each move had to be carefully plotted to try and outguess what card he was going to play.
Ultimately, I managed to out-play my opponent and racked up 2 wins.
Thursday, April 30, 2015
Game Night! - 24 April 2015
Another game night and another round of last minute drop-outs.
We went from a potential 4-6 people the day before to 4 people on the morning. By the time I arrived (first to arrive!), we were down to 3 and not long after, we were just 2. Unfortunately, I wasn't expecting just 2 so hadn't taken the right games. Still, I did have Yomi which is a perfect 2 player game so it wasn't all bad.
:)
Yomi
After beating my nemesis last time with Setsuki, I naturally picked Setsuki again. He, on the other hand, went back to Grave as he was hoping to get revenge on me for beating him last time when he was trying out Lum.
I promptly went on to beat him 4-2.
:)
To be fair, there were several extremely close games. The last game in particular stands out for me as I expected to get crushed. He managed to get off to an extremely good start as he managed to get in two throws with double King follow ups. Setsuki doesn't start with much health so that put me close to deaths door pretty early on.
I changed up my tactics and was able to dump my hand on numerous occasions to get back into the game. In the end, it came down to a final round where whoever won combat was pretty much going to get the win. I won. :)
The Agents
I had brought The Agents with me this time just in case we had dropouts. I didn't expect to be just 2 but we figured that we would try it with 2 players to see how it goes.
The game is still fun (managed to win both games!) but the limitations of only having 2 players really does start to show itself. Good as a last resort but I'll be honest and say that 2 player The Agents isn't my preferred choice of game.
We went from a potential 4-6 people the day before to 4 people on the morning. By the time I arrived (first to arrive!), we were down to 3 and not long after, we were just 2. Unfortunately, I wasn't expecting just 2 so hadn't taken the right games. Still, I did have Yomi which is a perfect 2 player game so it wasn't all bad.
:)
Yomi
After beating my nemesis last time with Setsuki, I naturally picked Setsuki again. He, on the other hand, went back to Grave as he was hoping to get revenge on me for beating him last time when he was trying out Lum.
I promptly went on to beat him 4-2.
:)
To be fair, there were several extremely close games. The last game in particular stands out for me as I expected to get crushed. He managed to get off to an extremely good start as he managed to get in two throws with double King follow ups. Setsuki doesn't start with much health so that put me close to deaths door pretty early on.
I changed up my tactics and was able to dump my hand on numerous occasions to get back into the game. In the end, it came down to a final round where whoever won combat was pretty much going to get the win. I won. :)
The Agents
I had brought The Agents with me this time just in case we had dropouts. I didn't expect to be just 2 but we figured that we would try it with 2 players to see how it goes.
The game is still fun (managed to win both games!) but the limitations of only having 2 players really does start to show itself. Good as a last resort but I'll be honest and say that 2 player The Agents isn't my preferred choice of game.
Sunday, April 5, 2015
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!
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!
Sunday, January 25, 2015
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.
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.
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