On the weekend I played...

[Norwegian Blue]

Question for the floor:

What was the game(s) that got you into gaming?

What is your favourite game?

First edition AD&D back in the late 70s or early 80s. I still have my DM's Guide and Player's Handbook by Gary Gygax.

D&D has long fallen by the wayside. My group liked 3.5, but took one look at 4th edition and ran away screaming. We went to Pathfinder and haven't looked back. Although I did vary it up with some Call of Cthulhu for a while.

I'm currently GMing "Tyrant's Grasp" and one of the group is running "Reign of Winter". We play one afternoon most weekends, usually two weeks on, two weeks off.

 

[Chief]

Starting a Conan campaign tomorrow night.

 

[Achy Blakey Heart]

Anyone braved Mr President yet? lol

Im considering picking up Cuba Libre for my first COIN game, that said i havent played much in ages....might break out Spirit Island for a burl again this weekend.

 

[Chief]

Played Dredd miniatures last night with a group of five.

Citi-Def, street gang, Robot Judge vs Judda and robots.

Lost

 

[Andre]

Games day yesterday. Firstly continuing our Charterstone campaign.



Then Distilled. Haven’t won yet, but best result was when played whilst having spirits. Didn’t this time and did very poorly

Then finished off with Dog Park, a recent Kickstarter arrival backed by the other half. No great thinking required, so a good wind down game.

 

[Chief]

We've started a Conan RPG campaign using 2D20 system. Random characters so we have some odd PCs running around. I rolled trash so I am just a healer in the corner (Prince Ahndru of the Healing Touch). As I was the Batlef-dropping Worf type in our Star Trek campaign and got lots of action I'm happy to sit back in the beginner scenario before we roll up proper characters.

 

[Andre]

Started last night and finished tonight, our first go at Freelancers. A new game that’s a sequel of sorts to Forgotten Waters. Similar to that you have your characters, roles to control and an App to provide the (nearly always amusing) story entries. My three characters, which is a species plus a class (we each ran 3, if you are doing one each you can have up to 7 players), were a Merfolk Judge named Drippy, an Imp Paladin named Big Jim and a Hound Gunslinger (gunslinger as in sling their guns by throwing them) named Good Boy. After 6 hours of adventuring we defeated the Dragon.

Spoiler

Who was bankrolling the Kingdom as the King was incompetent. Oopps.

There are 5 campaigns, but with 8 species and over a dozen classes, there’s plenty of variety if the initial 30 odd hours o get through isn’t enough.
Anyone who likes Forgotten Waters (or games with lots of humour), I’d recommend it to.

 

[Chief]

First round of Mordheim - my Orcs bottled on their third leadership test.

 

[Bletch]

We've started a Conan RPG campaign using 2D20 system. Random characters so we have some odd PCs running around. I rolled trash so I am just a healer in the corner (Prince Ahndru of the Healing Touch). As I was the Batlef-dropping Worf type in our Star Trek campaign and got lots of action I'm happy to sit back in the beginner scenario before we roll up proper characters.

Played that a few years back. A bit broken iirc. But I love playing in the Conan universe. Have both editions of the Mongoose Conan as well as the Modiphius 2d20 system. Also "Riddle of Steel", which though not Conan, is very Conan-ish.

 

[Andre]

Games day today. Couple of goes at Charterstone (one round to go), then first time playing Fractured Sky. Expansion on Kickstarter has only a few days left so needed to play, to see whether to back. That’ll be a yes. All enjoyed. You contend for winning the regions shards are put on. You can put your airships on three of ten regions each of the five rounds. Each round one region is publicly known to have a shard, with hidden shard(s) equal to the round in. You can spend resources to peek at cards (though by later rounds you won’t have enough to see all) and resources can help you build some other things to help. It’s a fairly light weight game, so one that’d be easy to pull out and play with those who don’t like heavier/longer games.



Then we finished off with Hitster and Just One. 9 of 13 there. That holy grail of 13, achieved once, remains elusive again. The alignment of minds, in the zone, will be a thing of legend

 

[Chief]

We got into Dune Imperium today/night. I was doing well then ran out of steam. Just not enough men in the final battle.

 

[Bletch]

Played Trudvang Legends a couple of times now. Wouldn't rush out to buy it. Has some nice features, but don't think it'll have longevity, already seems a bit repetitive.

 

[Achy Blakey Heart]

We got into Dune Imperium today/night. I was doing well then ran out of steam. Just not enough men in the final battle.



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It's a quality design with few runaways. Love it. Plays well at any player count 1-4.

 

[Achy Blakey Heart]

Ive been smashing BGA lately. Mainly turn based Ark Nova, Obsession, Castles of Ron Burgundy and Anachrony.

But mostly ive been pumping real time games of Glass Road that in Beta....love me an Uwe...

 

[Andre]

First game of Empires End. It’s a civilisation type game, except instead of building up an empire, you’re managing its collapse. You have 11 locations in your empire (all players the same 11), worth getting number of points end of game, as well as during game effects. There are regular disasters, which players bid resources to avoid. There are advantages to taking them though. You get all resources bid and they grant innovations helping with further scoring. You don’t want too many though, as most of your points will come from the undestroyed parts of your empire.

Both the wife and I enjoyed the twist on the usual ‘build up’. It’s also straight forward, being fairly light weight.

 

[Andre]

International tabletop day board game meet up yesterday. Played Dorf Romantik, Harmonies, 6-Nimit, Evolution Another World, King of Toyko, Let’s go to Japan and Revolution.

 

[Chief]

Friday night Tapestry with the arts expansion.

Lazy 283 points for first place.



Pity for yellow - nearly lapped him 3 times.

 

[SonOfScray]

Been using BG stats to log my plays and forgot to check in here for awhile because I wan down the rabbit hole of reviewing cost per play for my KS addiction.

Been smashing the flip and wrote games Next Station, both Tokyo and London versions. Tokyo is harder, London better with modules added.

Let’s Go To Japan. Love it.


Fighters of the Pacific. Loving it the more I play it.


The Perfect Wave. Interesting rhythm to this game. Love hate relationship, but it fills a good void on games night as that accessible, quick to put together game for short nights, or to wrap up with.

Azul - my 8 yr old daughter is loving it. She’s really getting the hang of games now and this one is her favourite.

Fractured Sky. Thought it’d be a bloated mess, but it’s just a well designed, well published game.

 

[thejester]

Anyone braved Mr President yet? lol

Im considering picking up Cuba Libre for my first COIN game, that said i havent played much in ages....might break out Spirit Island for a burl again this weekend.

I played Mr President a few weeks ago with some mates. Took a good hour plus to set up, and that was with the guy who owned it and was hosting having already done a lot of it. But the actual mechanics seemed simple enough - it was good fun.

 

[thejester]

Finished up a solo game of The Dark Summer a couple of weeks ago. First proper play through and really enjoyed it, was pretty simply (although I stuffed up some of the D-Day rules and gave the Allies a pretty big leg up) and it captured the basic choices the commanders had to make (particularly the Germans) pretty well.

 

[Bletch]

Wee bit of Zombicide yesterday. I'm playing "Zanzibar" who looks suspiciously like a certain flamboyant singer from the 70s/80s.

Wish I'd taken a wider shot of my friend's table - it's a full Wyrmwood modular table, awesome for gaming.

 

[Andre]

Last night second go at Dead Reckoning, this time without some of the rules missed, as did in the first game. Not a good enough pirate and lost.





Better luck tonight with Paladins of the West Kingdom. As we hadn’t played in awhile just the base game, before we introduce expansion and Tome Saga later in the week. A big win.

 

[Andre]

A few the last few days. Friday night Paladins of the West Kingdom, with City of Crowns expansion, as part of Tome Saga. Of course after smashing victory with base. when not doing Tome Saga, a narrow loss.



Then at games group yesterday. Maps of Misterra, Empires End, Tapestry and Harry Potter Hogwarts battle.




Then tonight asked the wife if she was thinking of the Roman Empire. She said yes. That may have had something to do with playing Foundations of Rome. Then again probably not, since she’s doing Bacheor of Letters in History ATM. In either case two goes, since it’s a quick game. First goes at it, so base, then with Trading & Stealing module. We didn’t steal and only did one trade. Will add in other modules / expansions during the week. Split the games one apiece.

 

[Andre]

This week so far, first go at Brass: Birmingham. I wouldn’t rate it the best game out there, as per BGG, but wasn’t bad, once I got past the initial frustration of not much money, until I got a few decent improvements out in the Rail era.



Then picked up Clank! during the week. I’d played Clank Catacombs once, but not Clank! (Wife had once). We finished our Charterstone a couple of weeks ago, so looking to see what our next Legacy/Campaign game will be and considering Clank Legacy.

 

[Andre]

First go of Nucleum (alternate time line of earlier discovery of Nuclear energy, for power) during the week. It’s similar to Powergrid, with needing to connect power sources via networks, but more complex as you have buildings to build and contracts (objectives to fulfill). We played on the normal mat, but a couple of days later the Australia map arrived, so will have to next do with that.

Then we finished off the Lost Ruins of Arnak - Missing Expeditions campaign.