As per MarkT’s request here is a brief overview of our New Years Day boardgaming marathon…
Last Night on Earth: We started about 10:45 in the morning with my wife’s favorite game of all time. The Scenario was one in which all 21 zombies are in play and they don’t have to roll to respawn – thus they spawn on every game turn. Their objective: Fill every building space with zombies (with no heroes occupying the building) and collapse the building. When they have collapsed 6 buildings they win the game. My brothers (Nate and Greg) played the zombies and Melin and I were the heroes. Even though the heroes started with more cards and got a free search in each building weapons were in short supply. Our only saving grace was a “remains in play” card could stay on a law enforcement officer that gives a +1 in combat AND on gun rolls – essentially meaning the pistol could never run out of ammo. This was done to good effect but one gun and three other heroes without weapons doesn’t make for a good defense. Two of my heroes went down quickly – even the prom queen who failed EVERY hide roll. We WERE doing good at holding the zombies out of the houses although they were around several of them we were able to keep them at bay… Then the zombies played a card that let them (at the start of their turn) move 1d6 zombies one space in addition to their normal move. We had no means of stopping it (actually we did have a chance with the Father’s ability but we neglected to remember that) and low and behold a 6 was rolled. This would end up being a game changing roll as suddenly with that extra move space they were able to fill FOUR additional buildings (the heroes were maneuvering to stop it for the following turn). Suddenly FIVE buildings were destroyed. With a concentration of 21 zombies and only a few buildings to choose from the heroes could simply NOT hold off mobs like that and died attempting to keep the buildings clear. Dominion: We opted next to do something a bit lighter and went with Dominion. I chose the “interactive” setup which has a lot of the attack cards in it. The game played VERY differently that it had in my previous games and the moat cards were gone within 3 game turns as people realized they would be valuable against such cards as the thief, spy and a couple of other attack cards. At first the attacks failed but as they decks become more full and the moat cards couldn’t be guaranteed in every hand things got interesting. Nathan took the brunt of the loss however as he NEVER seemed to have his moat card at the time Greg played the thief and he lost 5-6 copper though such losses. Melin started out strong and got some lucky draws and was able to purchase the 6 point victory cards pretty quickly – but then her luck ran out and she could rarely get the 9 gold necessary to purchase another and she concentrated more on those while Greg and I purchased the 3 point buildings which were soon wiped out. I was able to amass some decent gold by then and purchased 4 of the 6 point buildings. The last one never sold as the game end condition occurred as the third stack was emptied. I ended up winning by 7 victory points. Bob (NinjaBob) showed up around 2:00 and watched the last of our dominion game and expressed interest in BattleStar Galactica. As some of you know I have been anxious to get in a full game. I had tried twice before – the first time we had the game set up and I was explaining the rules and one of Melin’s relatives showed up and after 2 hours I gave up and packed it away. The second time was with UCBGA and there simply wasn’t enough time to finish the game. My time had come. Battlestar Galactica: There is an assumption that people have begun to make whenever we play a game involving a traitor – and that is that more than likely it is me. Sure enough the cards were passed out and I was a Cylon. I was also President. Bob and Melin chose Pilots, Nate was the Admiral and Greg chose the support role. I decided to play it pretty low key and did positive things (although taking the lesser of the better options I had available to me). As fate would have it an event came up that allowed my friend Bob to look at the loyalty card of someone at the table – and wouldn’t you know it but he decided to look at mine. Before I had clarified the rules Bob kind of showed us the tell he would give if he ever found a Cylon (at that time we thought you couldn’t say it out loud). We later clarified that rule and as he looked at my card he immediately gave the tell. Well – I didn’t have much choice but to accuse him of being a big liar and I immediately went about trying to point out things that he did that were suspect – even going so far as to say that I thought both he AND Nathan were cylons (there were two in the deck for distribution) and that Nate was choosing poor distance cards whenever we jumped. Although I had them bluffed for a turn or two eventually my wife (curse wives and their ability to read their husbands!) started to lean towards me being the cylon. On my next turn I attempted to throw Bob in the Brig telling everyone at the table that it was, in fact, Bob and not me. The check failed and Bob escaped his fate – but then immediately did the same thing to me and I failed the check and found myself in the brig. I revealed myself and started doing what I could to thwart humanity. On the next jump they made it halfway and a new set of loyalty cards were distributed. Greg ended up going Cylon this time and went a turn or two before it people started to suspect him and he revealed himself as well. We were on the LAST jump – they had gone 8 distance and only needed to make one more jump to win and they were only one turn from the FTL jump that would take three population. They only had three population so they would need to get through one more turn and be in the clear. Then Greg played his super Cylon card that pretty much FILLED the board with ships (4 heavy raiders, 10 raiders and two basestars) AND moved them back two on the jump track. Suddenly they were in a losing position having been so close up to that point. I had an event card that let me throw Starbuck in the brig (Melin) and we were able to keep her there the rest of the game. The lone pilot Bob could not hold off the masses and Greg and I activated the heavy raiders every chance we got and, although they shot one down, there were just enough left to board and win us the game. Cylons win. I had a BLAST with this game and would love to play it again some time. This took us to 6:00 in the evening and Bob had to leave so we wrapped up the night with a couple of quick games of Red Dragon Inn – one of the light filler games I prefer. I am now done yapping… --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "utah county boardgamers association" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/ucboardgamers?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
