Lazy board gaming attempt two.

Attempt two at weekend board gaming went about as well as attempt one. We moved it to a Saturday thinking people might be more willing to come out. The time frame of 1 to 6 meaning people didn't have to get up too early and people could still go out after. Well it was just Nikki, Victor, Nadine, Pattie and me.

We started by chatting a bunch as most game nights go. Victor and I talked zombie games while the wife and Nikki kept talking shopping, family or some other boring topic. I went to my mind palace and ignored it. I saw that company brought their own beef jerky and needed to run out and get my own from the corner store.

We finally started playing with Legendary Encounters: Alien. For some reason we decided to randomize our role cards and we ended up without a medic. We played the second movie and made it to the final objective when things quickly went sideways. I was the first to die from a brutal strike, followed quickly by Nadine and Nikki. Pattie was the last player alive. We hoped for a Ripley ending but she was overtaken by a hoard of acid xenomorphs.

After that we played Scotland Yard. Pattie was our Mr. X… or Mrs. would be more appropriate. After a rough start of having to remind players of some nuances of the game we managed to have a very frantic chase and much heated debate. We didn’t manage to catch her until the very last turn.

The last game at our event was with Betrayal at house on the hill. We didn’t manage to trigger the haunt until the 8^th or 9^th omen. Most of the board was played and we had managed to collect the items we needed already before the haunt even started. Poor victor was the traitor and he really didn’t have a chance with his zombie hoard. I probably could have made the game even easier for us by healing Pattie before the haunt started but I was worried she could have become the betrayer… so I hid my medic bag from view and let her slowly lose health with the grave dirt card. It was a jerk move and I ended up not being able to get to her after the haunt started. She had to spend the last half of the game fleeing from zombies and hiding in a corner. We still won.

It was at this point we decided to move the game to Nikki and Victors. They had to get home to feed the dogs and let them out. We ordered pizza and played a few more games.

Here we started with Pandemic. We actually had an easy time with it because we managed to cure the red and black diseases quickly. Victor was the medic and cleaned up the diseases fast. The blue disease was cured and eradicated in a single turn. However we barely cured the yellow disease because we had a hard time collecting those cards. Even though there was a single yellow disease cube on the board. The last player managed to cure the disease and eradicated it on the same turn.

We followed up with Smallworld. I snatched up the ransacking skeletons but they weren’t much use. People kept going into decline and I wasn’t able to use them to their full effectiveness. I think I held them longer than I should have. I also should have targeted those pillaging kobolds and beat them into submission. Nikki easily swept the win with them instead. For some reason people target Victor every game of Smallworld and ignore Nikki. She always wins and he always comes in last.

We ended the night with a game of Castle Panic. Nikki was the second player and she managed to pull the “extra four monsters,” the “extra three monsters,” all monsters advance and a boss all in the same draw. Luckily she pulled a boulder at the end which killed the boss and gave us a chance. Half the walls and a tower were down before I even got a turn. We pulled the win though because we kept getting some helpful Boulders come smashing in and killing monsters.

We ended the night tired and happy. I went for what I thought would be a relaxing drive home… until I noticed a red truck was following us. He made every turn we made and kept on the bumper. I swung onto a utility road before our place and parked. He slowly drove past me then pulled into the next entrance for the utility road and parked. We sat there for a bit then I decided to cut into the neighbourhood and drive around to get to our house from the other direction. The guy got out of his truck and watched me go. After I parked and made sure my wife got into the house I went out back so I could cut through the alley and come out to see his license plate. By the time I got there he was speeding out of the area and I couldn’t see his plate. I might be paranoid but it was very odd. And I just realized I left my hickory sticks at their house and I'm very depressed now.

Anywho we are thinking of trying to go to open gaming at Mission Fun and Games one of these Sundays. Either we will try to convince people to come or we will just go on our own. I recently got the wife into watching The Walking Dead so I might be able to convince her to get Dead of Winter on our next board game purchase. We shall see.