Hello MoDers, hope February treated you well with lots of games played; and painting projects finished. My painting slowed down a bit since I finished Squire Zola, however I think this is getting back on track. I did get to play some games however so ‘pros and cons’ as they say.
I visited my older brother and his family in Cheltenham, and this time my little girl came too. I do love my little trips to Gloucestershire, catching up with relatives and having a good relax. Also my brother Daniel and his family play games so there is always fun something to do. At Christmas I bought my nephew Oscar a copy of ‘Adventure time Munchkin’. We played this rather odd card combat game for a while it took a lot getting used to with its curses, monsters and treasures etc, but each game only last about 20 -30 minutes and once you know what you are doing it flows quite quickly. I don’t think I won any of the rounds, but as they say the pleasure is in the playing of the game and this is certainly true with ‘Munchkin’.
I introduced Daniel and Oscar to ‘Frost Grave’, I took my elemental mage and his entourage, to face whatever the boys could put together with their various miniature collections. Daniel took a ‘Chronomancer’ and Oscar selected an ‘Elementalist’ the cool thing about ‘Frostgrave’, is that you can have four wizards from the same originating school of magic, and the spell selection process can still produce totally different characters to play with. The game took a while as there was a lot of explaining to do, the guys certainly got into the spirit of it though as they were soon tearing chunks out of each other, Daniel taking out his son’s Apprentice and Oscar returning the favour by killing his Dad’s wizard. It was this last fatality that gave the game to Oscar, as he and I had collected two treasure tokens each, I only killed minions whereas he took out a main character. Both spell casters survived the experience roll however and lived to loot another day.
I cannot believe that it was two weeks ago already, but I actually managed to make it to H.A.T.E club in Bethnal Green. I had been delaying the campaign a bit, so it was time to face Karl’s Basileans as I tried to take their second town. Somehow I had fewer points that Karl had mustered so we decided upon three scenarios that would level things up a bit. The dice made the final choice and it was ‘Baggage train’. Karl’s troops were to guide 3 wagons across the 4 foot table and defended them from my troops who tried to assail the soldiers of Basilea and destroy all three of his wagons. I made a few mistake such as poor positioning, exposing my flanks and constantly forgetting that it wasn’t open combat, killing units scored me nothing. My biggest mistake was thinking it would be easy, and had not counted on the strong healing powers possessed by the Basilean army. My usual strategy is to try and whittle units down over the course of the game, however the Basilean forces just keep on recovering, and you never manage to weaken them, it actually became a bit disheartening toward the end, but some solace did come by managing to destroy one of the three wagons, it just wasn’t enough. Victory went to Basilea. Luckily my post game experience rolls allowed me to keep most of my units in the campaign, with the exception of my beloved ‘Iron beast’.
Some of you my know that I am on Twitter as ‘Therealmrseb’ I have recently started contributing to a Twitter community blog where we write about topics such as best film or favourite comic. A number of us add a monthly paragraph or two, and it always leads to a great read. It is run by the brilliant ‘Jack and the Geekstalk’, and you can find it at:
https://jackandthegeekstalk.wordpress.com/geekstalkers-community/
Also on Twitter I have been running a weekly poll called #GeekGods which it dedicated to actors and actresses that have played roles in a number of films in the fantasy, Sci-Fi and pop culture genres, so far people have shown their favourite ‘Bill Paxton character was Private Bill Hudson’ and that ‘Milla Jojovitch was best as Leeloo De Sabat’ The quiz is launched on Tuesdays and Fridays and lasts for three days so come along and have a vote.
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