December Games

These are the games we got to play during December of 2025. 

We played a LOT of games in December!

(Shortly after this post goes live, there will be another, longer Look Back at ALL of 2025)

(I'm a bit behind on the game reports... if there's a spot that seems like there should be a link to a game report, but the link hasn't been hyper-textified, I just haven't gotten to it, check back in a few days... or... weeks...) 

Tuesday, 2 December 2025

In the afternoon, Matt and I played another game in our Path to Glory - Ravaged Coast campaign! This was the fifth battle I've played in that campaign. In this game, my Blades of Khorne and his Stormcast Eternal forces were in a race to get to the entrance to a pass through the Adamantine Chain of mountains, and hold it. You can read all about that here:

Path to Glory: Ravaged Coast -  Storm the Pass

If that weren't enough for one day, I also played a game of Warhammer Quest: Cursed City with Amanda and Finnegan in the evening! 

This journey went poorly... they just couldn't get enough of the diregoyles or gnaw bone strays in time before time ran out... and then just before it did RADUKAR THE BEAST made his first appearance in the campaign!? You can read about that one here:

Warhammer Quest: Cursed City - Night Wars 08 - Sabotage Journey to the Knucklebone Tolls

Wednesday, 3 December 2025

On Wednesday, Sean stopped by to play a Ravaged Coast - Path to Glory game. He'd started out with a Nurgle force, but decided to switch it up and try Daughters of Khaine! You can read more about that battle here:

Path to Glory: Ravaged Coast - Rise Through the Ashes

Originally I'd had another game with Matt scheduled for Thursday... but Thursday morning he wasn't feeling great and had to cancel... which was okay, because it gave me a chance to catch up on some Game Report writing! 

Friday, 5 December 2025

And on Friday Sean was back again for another game of Age of Sigmar?! This time he brought another new army - a pair of MEGA GARGANTS (and their two pet frost-sabres)! The two gargants raided the Bloodbound's camp! 

Path to Glory: Ravaged Coast - Ransack the Encampment

Saturday, 6 December 2025

Saturday morning, I convinced Amanda to play the quick rematch-swaperoo she'd suggested after the last time we played Warhammer Age of Sigmar: Champions the Trading Card Game - where we switch decks. Because she wasn't sure if the Order deck she'd played was just terrible... or if it was some incredibly bad luck-of-the-draw... or if she just didn't know how to play it (because I'd beat her three times in a row with the Chaos Deck).... I think it was a mix of a few things. The Chaos deck IS powerful and can deal a LOT of damage. But also, I pick up systems quickly, but then plateau as I hit the limits of what my lack of executive functioning abilities and atrocious working memory can do. Amanda is a bit slower to figure things out, but then beats me all the time. 

We were still in the Amanda-Figuring-Things-Out phase, as I beat her in the first game I played with the Order deck (and her playing Chaos). (I will admit, I also got fairly lucky with the cards I drew that just happened to deal out some CrAzY damage right off - and knew where to play them to gain the most advantage!) 

  

Sunday, 7 December 2025

For Sunday, Amanda and I had planned to get in another game in our own little Path to Glory campaign, but the day kind of got away from us and we had tickets for the theatre in the evening, so we just played a couple more quick games of Warhammer Age of Sigmar: Champions - the Trading Card Game. Again I played with the Order Deck and she played with the Chaos Deck. I won the first game, but it was very, VERY close (like I had less than five health left when I finished her off) in the second game she just hammered me down... I was feeling like this may have been the end of me winning these games! 

We decided the next time we played we'd try out something different. Like trying the Death and Destruction pre-constructed decks! Soon I think I want to start constructing decks of my own, though. Having played the Order deck three times, I feel like it's not nearly as well constructed as the Chaos Deck - one of the champions requires healing for the first step of his quest... but there are only THREE freaking cards in the 20 card deck that do any healing!? Two of them are spells that telegraph the healing - needs two rotations until it can heal - giving the opponent plenty of time to try and block it! How are they to EVER complete their quest and reveal their blessing!? 

Monday, 7 December 2025

On Monday, Amanda and I had planned AGAIN to try get in another game in OUR separate little Path to Glory campaign...

And I spent some time in the afternoon, between baking muffins, to sort out a scenario and start setting up a game... only to be informed by Finnegan he had, without consulting calendar or family, made plans with friends to play board games in the Game Room on Monday evening... 

Initially I'd told him they'd have to play on the kitchen table as I was all set up down there... but eventually relented and PUT IT ALL AWAY again... 

And AMANDA AND I played Warhammer Age of Sigmar: Champions... AGAIN... on the kitchen table... 

This time we tried out the OTHER Grand Alliance decks Death and Destruction. We ended up playing three games. Amanda and I each won one of the first two, and I won the third. All three games were VERY close - these two decks seemed much better matched. Amanda seemed keen to play more of the Death faction. I suggested I was ready to start building decks with the cards from the booster packs! 

Tuesday, 10 December 2025

Warhammer Quest: Cursed City - Nightwars

You can read about it here:

Warhammer Quest: Cursed City - Night Wars 09 - YET ANOTHER Sabotage Journey

Wednesday, 11 December 2025

Amanda and I had ANOTHER game of Age of Sigmar planned - to play the next battle in our little Path to Glory campaign... but AGAIN... things just weren't working out, so we SWORE we'd play on Sunday and then just played a few games of Age of Sigmar: Champions TCG. I tried to quickly make a few custom decks! I built Amanda a Death deck with two vampires (a female one on foot, and a male one on a Nightmare), a Spirit Torment and a Wight King (just like our Role-Playing Game group!). I quickly through together a Nurgle-themed deck for myself! 

It was a bit slower going... I build a LOT of healing into both decks. Almost played through my deck! 

Friday, 13 December 2025

Orion was in town for the day, so we got in another TWO games of Age of Sigmar - for the Ravaged Coast campaign. 

First we played Twisted By Rage - a Gnaw's Edge Battleplan where I had to hunt down her General and assassinate them! I succeeded at doing so, and thus winning a Gnaw's Edge Battleplan, could start playing Hateful Shores Battleplans! 

Second we played  Along the Crumbling Coast - a Hateful Shores Battleplan. This one was an objective control game with an interesting set-up locations and terrain that was potentially deadly.. Orion won that one and was now in the running to win the campaign - as soon as they could find someone else that had won a Hateful Shores Battleplan! 

You can read about it here:

Path to Glory - Ravaged Coast - Twisted By Rage

Path to Glory - Ravaged Coast: Along the Crumbling Coast

Sunday, 14 December 2025

FINALLY, Amanda and I got in our next game of Age of Sigmar for our own Path to Glory campaign! We incorporated most of the rules from Path to Glory - Blighted Wilds, I'd picked up the day before... you can read about the game here:

Age of Sigmar - Counter-Attack at The Blood Pines

Tuesday, 16 December 2025

Tuesday we were back playing Warhammer Quest - and this one was a Decapitation Journey to destroy Carmilla DuSang! 

Thursday, 18 December 2025

Orion was back in town a bit early for the holidaze (blizzard kind of shut down work!) so we got in another game of Age of Sigmar - for the Ravaged Coast campaign. You can read about the battle here:

Path to Glory: Ravaged Coast - Assault on the Sea Cave

Afterwards I got her to try out a game of Warhammer Age of Sigmar: Champions (the Trading Card Game). Despite playing for the first time with a deck she was only seeing as she drew cards... totally won... (as I kind of expected she might - she's played a LOT of Magic: the Gathering and is just really good at these sorts of games!). 

Sunday, 21 December 2025

Sunday afternoon Nick and Orion came over to play in our Age of Sigmar: Soulbound role-playing game (involving exactly zero Soulbound!) with Amanda and Finnegan...

Later, after pizza, we (Nick, Orion, Amanda, and myself) tried out the new Spearhead Doubles rules! Orion brought both of her Soulblight Gravelord armies (Bloodcrave Hunt and Deathrattle Tomb Host) and Amanda and I played Sylvaneth and Stormcast, respectively. 

Monday, 22 December 2025

Monday we played a four-player Age of Sigmar MEGABATTLE to wrap up the Path to Glory: Ravaged Coast Campaign. You can read all about it and see all the pictures here:

Path to Glory: Ravaged Coast - Raid on Hel's Claw

Tuesday, 23 December 2025

Tuesday, Amanda, Finnegan and I played our regular Warhammer Quest: Cursed City game! This time we were on to hunting Kritza the Rat Prince and doing Pillage Journeys.... Which were similar to Deliverance Journeys in the first campaign, except instead of running through the streets of Ulfenkarn ahead of a Suffocating Gravetide, the heroes were running through the streets of Ulfenkarn ahead of a HORDE of rats, burning buildings and stealing stuff! You can read more about it here:

Warhammer Quest: Cursed City - Night Wars 11 - Pillage Journey

Saturday, 27 December 2025

Brent and Barb stopped by in the afternoon and brought along a newish game - Pergola! You build a garden in it...

This was my garden at the end of the first game

This was may garden at the end of the second game.

It was fun. 

Tuesday, 30 December 2025

In the afternoon some friends I haven't played games with in AGES stopped by to try out the new Warhammer Quest: Darkwater. We played through an abbreviated version of Act I. Everyone seemed to have a good time and both visitors expressed an interest in playing again! Hopefully I'll get them back to play through a campaign some time in the new year (ideally after I get the rest of the minis painted!)

There will be a full game report here:

Warhammer Quest: Darkwater - First Game - Abbreviated Act I

If that weren't enough gaming - or Warhammer Quest - Amanda, Finnegan and I also played our weekly Cursed City game later in the evening?! 

Warhammer Quest: Cursed City - Night Wars 12 - Another Pillage Journey

And that was it! 

Which WAS a LOT!!

Twenty-Seven Games!

• Warhammer Age Of Sigmar (Fourth Edition): Core Rules x9
• Warhammer Age of Sigmar: Champions Trading Card Game x8
• Warhammer Quest: Cursed City/Nightwars x5
• Pergola x2
• Warhammer Age of Sigmar: Soulbound x1
• Warhammer Quest: Darkwater x1

 

What did YOU get to playing this past month!? 

Did the Holidaze afford you time to get some games in?

 Or did non-gaming-festive-social-obligations eat up all your time and energy? 

Let me know in the comments!!