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Thursday, September 27, 2012

Gaming Session - rats are back


We had some of the old, some of the new, and a mixture in between. We played Panic Station - man I love that game! It was actually a fairly short game, I was the host and a unfriendly set of room draws made for a bad set-up for the uninfected. Normally for the infected it is not as suspenseful, but the place was crawling with parasites and we all lost half of our health just a few turns in and I didn't know if anyone would survive. All that was needed was to infect one other person, have other suspicious people kill each other, a grenade lob, and wham - humans lost. I wanted to play again immediately.



When then played some Dominion with the new card set Dark Ages which includes a ton of cards and many new additions to the game. We played only with expansion cards and I got smoked in the game, but it was alot of fun with the new cards. With so many cards they must be up to more game card combinations than our nation's deficit, if that is possible. There is a lot of trashing ability with the DA cards, you start with shelters instead of estates, and you can give other players ruins cards that seem as bad as curses and clog your deck.







We ended by playing Rattus with the Africanus expansion that increases the board to northern Africa and can be played with 5-6 players now. The game is about the black plague in 1347 spread by rats and you select characters and place population for yourself, but when you move the plague it takes other players population away. It has a great mechanic for doing this that takes some forethought on your moves. The game ends when a player has all his population on the board or the plague runs out. I was doing pretty well, but Nate planned better for the end and moved past me on the last turn.

Friday, May 18, 2012

Game Session

We played three games new to the group tonight. First we played Poseidon's Kingdom, a game I first saw at SaltCon and is incredibly rare (only 1000 printed). Not everyone liked it, but I think it is a fun game with strategic decisions. We kind of fumbled the last turn and what we were to do so we extended the game an extra turn. I doubt if this game will ever get published in the US, the pieces are too nice for mass production. It utilizes dice in an interesting way as they crash off of the big wave and land in the smaller waves, they must then be "eaten" (collected) to free your friends from the Kraken.








In the meantime some played Zooloretto, and then for the late game we played Rattus. There were some rules I was fuzzy on, but it went alright and we adjusted. It is a fairly easy and simple game, but with cool strategy and role selections. It would have been better if we followed all the rules the whole game, but we play and learn.

Poseidon's Kingdom
1- BrettH, 2- Tim R, 3- Tyler H, 4- Charles G

Zooloretto
1- Matt N, 2- Nate J, 3- Dallin E

Rattus
1- Nate J, 2- Brett H, 3- Tyler H, 4- Charles J