Hail Caesar #2

 A small Hail Caesar -- Spartans vs Athenians

Spartans won as the Athenian ambush that balances the scenario totally wiffed.

Old Farts Wargaming

 Got to Jims after a LONG time.  Lots of old faces.

Good Cop, Good Cop

 Light games, which meant multiple playings of Good Cop / Bad Cop.  I had to duck out to help with mum.

Perfection

 A perfect day.  A great hike, followed by games.  Modern Art, plus some games I have forgotten.

Back to Normal!

 Cyclades.  Rob liked the game --but not enough to back the new kickstarter!  It has an interesting connect with Kemet, which is a group favorite!

Rising Sun -- multiplayer mayhem!

 Chaos in Japan.  Such a fun game, but took a while to figure out!  Monsters and Samurai.  Betrayal and treachery!  It will hit the table again.

Pax Martha - again

 Pax Pamir.  This game went really quickly, with Martha coming out on top easily.

Followed up with Cascadia, and Martha won that as well!

Time of Crisis plus Frogs

 We were going to do Cosmic Frog, but somehow switched to Time of Crisis.  Emperor Ross strolled home, getting at least double everyone else's score.

Martha showed her painted frogs, that were truly cosmic!

Pax Martha!

 We played Pax Pamir.  We were all so, so, so confused about the rules.  But we will play again!

I was about to win, but Andrew knobbled me, and Martha leapt from 2nd place to level with me, and won on the tie break!

Followed up with 'Cat in a Box'.  The reviews sound strange.  The game is strange.  But it is simple fun!

The New Kingmaker!

 I had 3 copies of Kingmaker.  With the new reprint, I now have 4 copies of Kingmaker.  I do like this game :)

A 4 player battle, with Ross and Martha getting a joint victory!

Followed on with a game of trails to finish the evening.

Just the two of us

 Only Andrew could make it for games -- everyone else was Eastering.

Started off with Blitzkrieg.  What a great game!  We played 4 games, and honours were evenly split.

We then moved on to Napoleon, which Andrew picked up distressingly quickly.

Cosmic!!!!! And Frogs!!!!!

Cosmic Frog!  What an insane and amazing game!

 

Lost in India

 Played at Andrew's place.  Played Rajah of the Ganges, which was great fun -- but I totally screwed up my strategy by trying to build out my city rather than concentrate on other options.

Then played trails, which it turns out is a great little game!

Awkward Detecting Between Two Cities

 Ryan had some light 6 player games.

Between Two Cities.  Fun.  But your destiny really isnt in your control.  If you maximise points you need to count points and be boring.  I liked it -- but only as a light game.  

Awkward Guests is a deduction game.  Lots of fun.  But the secret is to hide information from other players, and that makes it almost a guessing game.

Adding Ryan

 A new person to the group -- Ryan.

Played Dune with the new factions.  

Rob fought a battle, and his army was destroyed in a nuclear explosion.

Rob fought a battle, and his army was destroyed by a traitor.

Rob didnt win a single battle in the whole game.  he still won in alliance with Cass.

Birthday Betrayal

 Back from fishing, we had a full house.  Except at the last minute Cass bailed.  We had agreed to play Dune, and we played a 5 player game.

I was allied with Ross, but he ditched me to play with Andrew.

I was allied with Martha, but she ditched me to play with Rob

In the end Martha got the win by dragging the clock out.

Disconcordia

 5 player Concordia.

I failed miserably!

Kingmaker and farewell Maria

 Kingmaker was showing its age, especially with all of the odd rules.  But most of us enjoyed it.  Except Cass.  Memo to self -- dont offer to play Kingmaker to Cass :)

(Martha won because it was late and everyone was tired - so she was voted the winner!)

Maria (the cat) died later that night :(

Strategy & Tactics 052 - Oil War

 Just me and Andrew, so we got out one of the old classics!  The game is dated, but fun.  And it bought back memories!

Smiling Evil

 Joking.  But Martha was the only person to survive the Nemesis.  Her goal was for me to die, which she achieved by studiously not helping me.  But she also didnt help anyone else, and they also perished!  (Nemesis with the Void Seeders expansion)