Star Realms (28-30) and Zombie Dice (38)

More family-type games with the nephew in Ft. Wayne. We’ve been playing D&D with him as the DM, but that’s going to be harder to do when I’m not around. So we revisited Star Realms, which we’ve played only once in the past.

Game 28/52

I went first. Picked up some early blob. Got the win on this one. Had to overcome a lot of Federation authority rebuild.

Game 29/53

Nephew went first on this game, this is his first tine being the first player and coping with a 3 card initial hand.

For this game I went deep on Machine Cult and was able to scrap 7 Scouts and both Vipers, and had a fair number of Empire and Blob cards which allowed card draw. I managed to get the 8 cost Empire base which provides a hit point for each ship put in play during the turn. The last turn saw 11 ships drawn with a total of 43 hits dealt to the nephew. That’s probably my biggest hand ever.

He also had a good hand, and had driven me way, way down in points. It’s likely he would have beaten me on his next hand.

Game 30/54

I went first again, and won again, but another fairly close game. He’s going to beat me at some point, then punish me if I make a few bad draws. This was a longish game as we were both building Authority. I finally coughed up a combo which took him, some Blob and Empire cards.

Also, for these last two games, I’ve been playing outposts early, which slows damage considerably over severa turns.

Zombie Dice 38

Learning game for the Nephew. I think he liked it. He is really big on pushing his luck though, so he lost.