Be Excellent To Each Other

Challenge accepted!

Nah. I want consequences to be based on decisions, not dice.

I suspect I wouldn't be the first.

You could have combat nearly always hurt to attacker as well as the defender, like in Advance Wars. Or Space Cows.

Hurrah!

Ahem: I wish I could draw pictures to go with my online board game...

Or have a fixed attack (due to weapons or whatever) + a bonus that comes from a card the player plays.

The card comes from their hand of 6 or whatever, and the hand doesnt get replenished until they are all used up.

Therefore players need to size up when they think they can get away with playing weaker cards or something.

Or something.

This is intended to be a forum game though, from my side - so I want consequences to be based on decisions, not numbers so much.

Could I put another player on top of my head when I get to the other side of the board?

Hmm, how about a system where each player (hidden from others, via pm or some code magic) commit to helping the "gang" in the battle or "look after themselves". The former let's the group win but you may get bit, and the latter keeps you safe, but you appear to be helping.

Different challenges need greater commit numbers.

A coop game where you are out for yourself.

Only if he is small, like Gaywood and Alberto.

Damn. I was wanting a proper kingly hat. A Mr Russ maybe.

What about a light character (Mr Dave)

And do you not need to pick up the ceremonial headress beforehand (and is that possibly a couch which would be designed to fit an unusual edge of a room?)

Can you make it about zombies and superheroes so I can call it Zomgbies?

Can we make trooper in charge of design, and not rules? ;-)

I fear my server would run out of RAMS almost instantly.

OH NOES! HE'S HERE! MORE RAMS!

So Craster, Riles, Curio and I tried Pandemic.

It was... Okay. It would have been better if we'd got the rules right. We need to try again - and we'll have to have Roda there to tell us how to play properly.

As it was, we "won" in about twenty turns.

Hadn't spotted this. Yeah, played Pandemic before, Nice idea, but somewhat lacking in execution. Generally all seems a bit easy

It's a lot less easy if you read the rules.

Or, we could try not being shredded when we start playing.

I did read the rules. Maybe I've just been lucky whenever I've played.

The errors we made we insufficient shuffling of the deck, Riles shitting out research stations every turn, and you don't discard cured disease cards until it is eradicated.

That said, I still think you should win without too much trouble most of the time.

Playing with 4 epidemics in the deck, depending on the number of players I'd expect to win somewhere between half and two-thirds of the time. You can, of course, play with anything up to 6 epidemics.

Of course it lacks a bit of atmosphere and tension if you're not in any danger of losing!

Played again last night. Thought it was going quite well, two diseases cured, then we ran out of player cards. Game over, world dies in a hell of rot and filth.

GET TO DAH CHOOPAH!

That fluffy pink dressing gown totally suits you.

Zombies! is out on WP7. Were you aware, MS phone owners?

Yes. No online multiplayer. Which is the most mental thing I've ever heard of.

Yeah, it came out about a year ago - I was showing people at the cottage. Maxed.

I know, right? A turn based multiplayer game, and they decided to implement it hotseat only. Morons.

Excellent weekend of Catan, Munchkin and Zombies. Recommend all three. Again.

Clearly the talent in the successful team lay elsewhere.

If you had more that one set of the Zombies! game (for instance, we could have three sets at the cottage) I think making sure the helipads are right at the bottom of the deck and splitting into teams of two or three would work really well. Each member of the team has their own pawn with cards, ammo and hearts as normal, but ammo and weapons can be shared between the team. You'd be able to nail far more zombs (put the required number to win up to 25xTeam members, obv), but if you got split up because one of you died it'd be a proper nightmare - just like in "real" zombie situations. We could even invent new cards* that allow you to break up the team.

If you wanted to go mad, you could "specialise" the team members - one carries five cards but needs a 5 or 6 to kill the zombs, one is a heavy gunner who only needs to get above a 3 to get the kill but only has one card and can't use ammo counters, etc.

*Doesn't one of the expansions have cards that are basically 'create your own'?

Zombie Corp has some blank cards in it.

Turns out I've got Heroquest. And Space Hulk (the pre-2009 version). And Space Crusade.

$$$

Yeah!

I got my 100 extra Zombies and should get Zombies 3.5 today, which has more cards to make the game flow a bit ebtter. Will report.

We should do like the topic title says and have a boardgame night.

I'm happy to host it, but I'm not sure I'm easiest to get to for everyone.

For those that don't know (ooh, I can use the thing) I live here:

Hosting it at Grim...'s seems a great idea to me

Postal district o/

I'm right in the middle of the country. It makes obvious sense to have it at my house.

I have friends in Nottingham I could probably stay with, or, if at Grim..'s the hotel is good for me.

How big's your table, though?

Now you're shifting the goalposts! You could probably cram eight people around it if we were all friends.

I have an outside table that could be brought in and placed next to it though.

I'm pretty sure the goal was "host a boardgame night".

"Shifting the goalposts" is one of the few management terms I don't mind.

But your main caveat was location. Bring your table to my house.

You host if you want to, I was just providing an alternative for them there northerners.

Well if we're all jumping in on this then I'LL host the boardgame night!

This is true. And I could! But I'm not sure it would fit in my car.