Well, the last two months were a bit of a disappointment...
Friday, 1 November 2024
I saw Brent at the Rosebud Burlesque Club's Halloween Show the week before and arranged to meet up this week to try out Lost Patrol!
We ended up playing the game SIX TIMES! There is a game report of ALL SIX GAMES here:
Afterwards we played a few other games.
First we played Linkage: A DNA Card Game, which I have not played in... SEVEN. YEARS!? We spent a lot of time looking at the rules and trying to figure things out, but I think we were mostly overthinking things and expecting there to be more to it than there really was....
Speaking of spending a lot of time reading rules... Next we tried out Giro D'Italia Card Game.
I'm sure I've had the game for about 15 years... and NEVER PLAYED IT!? It has some of the worst written rules I've ever read.... between me trying to read the rules on the tiny little sheet enclose in the game, and Brent looking things up on Board Game Geek, I think we finally figured out how it was meant to be played...
Once we figure that out it was a pretty quick and clever little game to play! As the stage ended, my Rolleur was in the lead, winning me the game! I think it was more due to luck than any grand strategy working out! Oh, I'd HAD a strategy... but it had involved my Rolleur leading out a break-away... with my climber and Leader immediately behind, my climber was going to pull the leader up the pass and then let him rip down the hill to the stage finish... I kind of flubbed when to try and break away and it ended with my leader being swallowed up by the Peloton (at least he was dropped!) and my climber only just keeping ahead. Two of Brent's riders came in second and third!
Up to six players can play the game, which would be nuts! The rules claimed that TEN could play, but that was clearly NOT possible as we read on!?
In one afternoon, I played more games that I did in all of October... not a bad start!?
Saturday, 2 November 2024
The next evening, I got together with Chris and Christian on Discord and discussed the possibilities of playing Soulbound this fall/winter. It could be kind of like Session Zero (Part One). We planned to meet again the following Saturday to actually MAKE characters and stuff...
But that didn't happen...
Tuesday, 5 November 2024
For the second week in a row, Amanda and Finnegan and I played Warhammer Quest: Shadow over Hammerhal! We played through The Grinding Gear level.
You can read the full report and see ALL the pictures here:
Warhammer Quest: Shadows Over Hammerhal - Session Five - The Grinding Gear
Sunday, 10 November 2024
Orion stopped by for the afternoon on Sunday. We tried out a few games of Lost Patrol. She brought her Space Wolves Scouts. The first game she came SO CLOSE to WINNING! In the second game there was only ONE TILE left in the pile - the Escape Pod - but the sole surviving marine was trapped in a dead end and just couldn't shoot their way out! There is a full report here:
Afterwards we tried out Crypt Hunters which is a way less deadly reskin of Lost Patrol. We played four games and... it was really fun! It's a very clever little game.
There is a full report of the ensuing chaos, you can read it here:
Tuesday, 12 November 2024
Amanda, Finnegan and I played another session in our Warhammer Quest: Shadows Over Hammerhal campaign. We played through The Auction House... I'd hoped to get to the Sorcerer's Lair and start CURSED CITY the next week... but it turns out fighting ALL THE THINGS in ONE ROOM takes a lot of time! (We also got started a bit late...)
You can read about the battle in the Auction Hall here:
Warhammer Quest: Shadows Over Hammerhal - Session Seven - The Auction Hall
Saturday, 16 November 2024
Orion stopped by with her brand new copy of Warhammer Underworlds: Embergard and we played through two games. We each took a turn playing Thircefold Discord. Orion played Ironsoul's Condemnors against the daemons, and I played Thorns of the Briar Queen against them.
You can read all about the two games and the new edition of Warhammer Underworlds here:
Warhammer Underworlds: Embergard - First Games
Later in the evening I met up with Christian on Discord and we made a character for him to use in the Warhammer Age of Sigmar: Soulbound (role-playing game) campaign that we'll HOPEFULLY be playing on Saturday evenings going forward...?
His character is Kharadron Overlord Aether Kemist. Originally from Chamon, he had been tasked seeking out and finding some of the lost technologies of his clan from the Age of Myth!
Tuesday, 19 November 2024
Tuesday Amanda, Finnegan and I played through the last session of Warhammer Quest: Shadows Over Hammerhal. The Chaos Sorcerer, Lord Redomir, was tracked back to his lair and slain, after he refused to come into custody peacefully...
You can read all about the adventure and see all the pictures here:
Warhammer Quest: Shadows Over Hammerhal - Session Eight - the Sorcerer's Lair
Saturday, 23 November 2024
Chris and Christian and I got together on Discord to make a Character for Chris for a Soulbound Campaign. Chris' character is a Human Freeguild Sergeant from one of the regiments based out of Hammerhal Aqsha.
Tuesday, 26 November 2024
Session Zero - making characters for an IN-PERSON Soulbound campaign with Orion, Nick, Charlie, Amanda and Finnegan... It is going to be bat-shit crazy...
Orion is playing a Fyreslayer DOOMSEEKER - crazy duardin/dwarf berserker types that always want to pick fights and seeks a glorious death in battle.
Charlie is playing a Daughter of Khaine Witch Aelf - fanatical worshiper of the GOD OF MURDER
Nick is playing an Idoneth Deepkin Isharann Tidecaster - the Idoneth... those fun undersea Aelves that can't stand other people - even each other - and only contact with anyone outside of their enclaves are those they raid on shore to steal their souls...
Amanda is playing a Sylvaneth Spite-Revenant - a screaming manifestation of nature’s wrath, radiating an enveloping aura of fear and rage, nightmare creatures of endless vindictiveness that most Sylvaneth prefer to distance from....
Finnegan is playing a Human Witch Hunter...
So... I guess they all HATE CHAOS...? Hopefully more than they hate each other and everyone else they encounter!? The general feeling was that perhaps Malerion bound them together as a lark...?
Wednesday, 27 November 2024
Amanda, Finnegan and I played through their first Hunt mission in Warhammer Quest: Cursed City! The full game report can be found here:
Warhammer Quest: Cursed City - Session One - The First Hunt!
(well... when I finish the game report...)
Anyway... played a few more games this month...
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A very busy November, that's a good monthly total.
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