My usual collaborator and I met up again to take another crack at The Dread Realm, hoping to complete Angmar Awakened so we can progress to Dream Chaser. Our previous session was a complete disaster, but we had hogher hopes for this session after tuning...
My usual card-game colleague and I took another couple of cracks at The Dread Realm. It’s been a couple of months, and we forget which deck we were using. As a result, he went with one of my pre-built dwarf decks, and I used a Beorn deck he built for...
Fields of Fire is on my list of games to play in 2025. Specifically, “play” as in the first scenario from the Vietnam campaign. Due to the intricacy of the system, I’ve decided to work through the tutorial scenarios first, as started with Platoon...
Games for the kids to play. Astoundingly, mom won both games. Which is great!
Not my favorite sort of game, but it’s good to have the kids involved in something which doesn’t have a screen. Not much else to say.
The Dread Realm… another round of Lord of the Rings, the living card game from Fantasy Flight Games!
JL and I got tired because Carn Dum kicked our ass so many times so we decided to jump into the drug realm without realizing that it was the third...
My usual opponent stopped by for some Avalon Hill Vintage game action. We do this once or twice a year, haul out the old school stuff.
Game 2.
We played the Showdown 1 with Scout, little Ernie, Doc Holliday, and Quiet Man. Despite some initial action...
Played some games ay place on Sunday afternoon. I got badly crushed on almost everything. Been a long time since I’ve been hammered this hard.
As usual, the number pair first:last represents the title in a series game. For example, Star Realms in...
I didn’t really get a viable strategy working.
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We made it through the first stage, finally, but got smashed immediately on the second stage.
We’re moving on to Dread Realm.
Another great game of High Frontier put to bed!
My usual opponent AW has really gotten the bug, which is great, as I’m enjoying having an actual oppoonent to play against. We played the Core + 0 + 1 + 2 modules today.
Highlights included:
Today was a leave day from work, we got the day off from Department of Education, which was nice. Being completely underwater on a massive number of obligations, I spent a lot of the day chewing through emails. I didn’t quite get to inbox zero, but...
A swarm of new posts on the Jump Drive online forum about 5 turn wins has me fired up about the game again. They lay out the cards in turn order, left to right, so that it’s apparent from the pictures which cards were played when. Along with my new...
After the Silver Bayonet game ended, we threw some Star Realms on the table: Colony Wars, with the United expansion Hero and Command packs. This is the first time we’ve played with either of these expansions.
First game 15 This was a win for me.
...After a short walk up to Payn’s and down Vallejo stairs, we grabbed a quick game of Frontiers. This is game 7 of Frontiers by itself, and game 42 from the Star Realms series.
I managed to get a bit of synergy on Blobs, opponent did not get much synergy...
My usual High Frontier opponent returns for another crack at the game, this time with a Core/0/1/2 competitive game. The Full Monty, an aspiration for my 2025 game playing. Feels good to have this accomplished, despite all the mistakes we made, as...
Now we introduce the Romulans with their Plasma Torpedoes. Scenario #6, another ship to ship action. Plasma Torpedoes take 3 turns and 8 total energy to arm, but packs a massive punch. Two hits from a Plasma Torpedo at short range and full strength...