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How many people at a minimum do you need to play this, Grim...?

...and can you bring to cottage?

Edit: I picked up Kill Dr Lucky for £3 in a charity shop at the weekend.

Three.


No, Mrs Grim... doesn't trust me to bring it back.

A wise lady, her.

Boo. The day our little one is old enough to play board games and the like a whole new world of games will open up to us with a third player finally available.

Played 2 won 2 so far!

Won 3 lost 1.

Runner deck worked really well. Corp deck got bogged down a couple of times.


Won 2 through stealing agendas and not letting the Corp do stuff. Won one by not letting the runner do stuff. Lost 1 by the runner putting up a superb attack.

Annoyingly: I put those cards back in that would have been of use last week. They should have stayed out.....

A review of the Portal game

http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2015/10 ... me-review/

That sounds brilliant.

I just almost bought that temple escape game but then thought how tricky it would be to play in the car

I'll probably get it for the cottage next year!

I was back in the Minor Leagues last night. The European Map has ferries (need a love train card and colors), tunnels (draw 3 from the top, need to match the color being played with am additional card to proceed) and stations (can use someone else's track). Stations make it a bit less fraught when MrsA takes all the track you want but are worth 4 if unused. The US map is still the Board though.

Netrunner data pack Opening Moves has been reprinted. If you need Jackson Howard I suggest you bobble along to amazon.

Cripes. It is back up to £90! Luckily,
I ordered 2 packs of it. I will have one and I will sell the other at what I paid for it to someone in the netrunner group. I am too kind, I know.

For my birthday a few days ago, I was given (with no prompting) Colt Express.

The flashbacks to being shot over. and over. and over.

(It also appears we were playing the punch incorrectly according to the rules I read)

Punch and they drop gold?

And they move.

YOU COULD HAVE BEEN PUNCHED INTO SHOOTING RANGE!

In seriousness, I think that makes the girl less overpowered as after a few punches the room should be clear and she can finally be hit.

Now I want to play Colt Express again.

Also, happy birthday An Dave.

Just checked the rules and Dave's right.

And happy birthday Dave.

Netrunner night!

My Corp deck is further refined. Should have now more OPTIONS to do BAD THINGS to the opposition.
Runner Deck is what it was last time.

I am awaiting my expansion cards in the post.

Today I read about Pandemic Legacy where you play Pandemic on it but then subsequent games are affected by how well you did and you throw out certain markers and put stickers on the board to affect routes and things like that.

It'll go for around 12-20 play through before its fully used up apparently.

Runner deck won. Corp deck lost.

Corp lost due to undefended archives due to cash flow.

Runner deck won due to luck in hq

Still waiting for them...

I sent a second chasing email and got a reply
"We totally sent them. It must have gotten lost in the post. Have a full refund."

Fuck.

Yeah. From £10.99 to £90!

I left them a 1* amazon marketplace review. About all I can do.

Just ordered another set from a different supplier for £25. Fuck's sake.

Order cancelled because no stock.

Played 'Dead of Winter' for the first time, in a deserted church hall on a dark November night in rural Oxfordshire. Not as tricky as I'd feared, and although the game beat us we came very close.
Turns out I wasn't a traitor, but at least three characters had to be bumped off if I was going to meet my secret goal so I deliberately jinxed a crisis causing mass casualties. Oops. Didn't get exiled at least, although my poker face was even less convincing then that time I was the detective in a game of Cottage Mafia.

Definitely want to play it again.

Ordered it again from these people....

Sounds good. We should try again soon.

I know... I know....

Played 3, lost 2 won 1 at netrunner tonight. Lost cheaply once, won cheaply once and the other loss was 6-7 (need 7 to win). Not quite sure what to do with my decks but more money is needed....

I'm aware I am mainly talking to myself here but..

The Satisfaction of a Job Well Done.

Ways to win as the corporation in netrunner are to score 7 agenda points by advancing agenda cards or by having the runner discard more cards from his hand than he has.

I have built up a deck of cards for the corporation that threatens the runner when they steal agenda points from me (they discard 2 cards from their hand or take a tag (a tag means Stuff Can Be Done to them)). This means that the additional cost of stealing an agenda is two turns to draw two cards to replace those they discarded or one turn and 2 coins to remove the tag. Generally they do this as being tagged means Bad Stuff can happen to them, like losing cards. Or coins.

So, I was the Corp and had moved myself up to 5 agenda points. I had set up a remote server which had been safe enough and I was trying to get 2 more points from it to win. The runner broke in and took it and resolved the damage. He then had 6 points and things were not looking great. My next turn I was able to get a point back (installed a card and advanced it twice in my turn to score it). So, delicately poised. The runner had a good, if expensive, way of getting in, I had to have a think.

On my next go I installed a card in the server that was protected and picked up a couplle of coins. then it was his turn. Merrily, he ran the server, passing through the two ice layers. I wasn't amused.

Confidently, he accesses the card to score the victory points and SURPRISE!. Lose 3 cards from your hand and take a tag, Thank you very much. The runner had one move left, and not enough cash to remove the tag. So he drew a card, leaving him with two cards.

My go. I drew a card. Remember I got a one point card out a few goes back? That gave me 7 coins. I had used 4 to spring the trap, and had 3 left. And the runner had a tag. Just perfect to Burn his house down. He could not discard 4 cards as he had 2 so I won.

Low cunning made a victory pop out of nowhere. I was murdered in the next game, though.

"And then I rolled a four and a two"

I thought that as I hit "post'.

Won 1 lost 4* last night at netrunner.

Time for a rethink of strayagy as "fuck their shit up" is running out of steam in the local meta.

Could have won 2 but I over reached and went into a trap in one game, and the other 3 losses were a trouncing.

You should be more specific, and concentrate on fucking GazChap up.

Hero quest? Still available? My brother wants to buy it for his son.

From £50 on amazon and about that on ebay

So, can't buy it new any more?

My brief look at amazon and eBay suggests not

Mine to, sadly

It's not been avaliable for 20 years. Tell them to play on NeroQuest.

The Dungeons and Dragons boardgame is a fairly close proxy.

Otherwise Descent looks pretty good, if a little more complicated.