Wow... So the entirety of Q3 was a bit of a bust... and... Q4 did not get off to a great start either... I didn't play any games at all for the first two weeks of the month... then...
Monday, 14 October 2024
On the holiday Monday of the Thanksgiving weekend (in Canada!) Orion stopped by to have a "practice game" for the upcoming Path to Glory campaign to try out our respective forces and figure out the full Age of Sigmar rules - which ARE somewhat different from the Spearhead rules, which we've been playing with for the last few months!
Orion's Soulblight Gravelords just hammered on my Hedonites of Slaanesh!
There is a brief game report here:
Age of Sigmar - Path to Glory Practice
Sunday, 20 October 2024
A week later, Keiran and I went over to Shannon and Kevin's place to play some games with them and Kevin's son.
First we played some Carcassonne.
it was a VERY close game...
Then everyone else played NMBR9... (because it only plays four and I don't LOVE the game) so I flipped the cards for them.
Keiran just LOVED the game and utterly DESTROYED everyone else... I think they had 121 points at the end... next highest score was 81...?
Next we played a few rounds of Tinderblox. A quick little game where you flip a card and try and add blocks to the existing pile in the orientation shown on the card, using the very slippery, odd angled tweezers!?
As soon as you drop something, knock something over, or something you just placed falls over, you are out of the game.
Keiran, surprisingly, was less good at this one!? I would have thought with all the sewing and other crafty things they do, and the accompanying precise motor skills, they would have rocked this one as well... alas, they were out on the first round for BOTH games.
The first game the stack got CrAzY high!?
Shannon won one of the games.
I won the other (miniature painting, yo!)
Finally we played Pirate Fluxx. I'd not played Pirate Fluxx before, but plenty of other Fluxx games, and they're all pretty much the same. It's been a while since I've played any. Sometimes it's a REALLY FAST GAME! Other times it just goes on and onnnnn.... for-EVAR... this was closer to the latter!
Still it was good to get out and play same board games again!!!
Wednesday, 30 October 2024
After a two and a half month hiatus... I sat down with Amanda and Finnegan to work towards finishing up Warhammer Quest: Shadow over Hammerhal.
Finnegan played the Cogsmith, Golnir Coalbeard, which he'd originally been playing, and Arvios Sunhelm - Lord-Castellant of the Hammers of Sigmar. Amanda played Vizrin Kyre - Black Ark Fleetmaster (as usual) and took on Alnaryn, the Aelven Loremaster. The four heroes blasted through "The Vile Dungeon" filled with some dank, nasty Putrid Blightkings and a Rotbringer Sorcerer!
You can read the full report of the evening's adventures here:
Warhammer Quest: Shadows Over Hammerhal - Session Five - The Vile Dungeon
And... that was IT?!
Once again... not a LOT of games going on... I didn't even get around to trying out Devilry Afoot - or playing a second game of Five Men in Normandy!? (I had thought of trying a quick solo game this evening... but I was just too tired...)
This was all kind of starting to get me down until yesterday when we played Warhammer Quest. It was SO MUCH FUN! I just LOVE that format of play and both Amanda and Finnegan seem pretty committed to finish this off - and then continue on with MORE of the Warhammer Quest games! I'll need to get painting the rest of the stuff for Silver Tower and/or Cursed City - as we could very well be moving on to one of those in the next few weeks!!
Feeling a bit more positive about next month - with the renewed interest in Warhammer Quest and the new edition of Warhammer Underworlds just a few weeks off and the kick off of the Path to Glory league.. Also Brent has arranged to stop by tomorrow and try out Lost Patrol.
Things are looking up!
What did YOU get up to playing over the last month!?
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I played about a half dozen games of Dorfromantik, solo. I found it very easy as far as rules go, trickier as far as strategy goes. But I did improve and did a fair bit better in the later games. I like tile-laying games and seeing how the map comes out each time. There is a campaign, too, and you "unlock" tuckboxes with new content a few times during the campaign. I just got to the 2nd tuckbox of new stuff to add. I anticipate playing the entire campaign over time (but might take a break to try to get some of my other unplayed games to my table first).
ReplyDeleteGood for Kieran and the win they got with NMBR9! Seems like various players have different games they tend to do well at. I know when I was playing with a group there were some games where I never did well and others where I had a decent chance of coming out on top. :)
I don't think I've heard of Dorfromantik, so I checked it out on BoardGameGeek and it looks really fun (and I just added it to my BGG wishlist!). I also like tile laying games - like Carcasonne - where generally I could care less if I win or lose, but am always excited about building a nice map!
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