Test Run - Imperial Assault

Played the tutorial to get our head around the system

Gloomhaven Scenario #2 Attempt 2

We replayed Scenario 2.  We lost.  Again.  This scenario is supposed to be easy, but we cant figure it out.

(After many replays, I have decided we were doomed by our initial choice of characters.  With no heavy damage hitters but 3 support characters, we just couldnt do the damage required!)

Gloomhaven - Scenario #2

We were defeated in scenario #2.

Gloomhaven - Scenario #1

Our first try at Gloomhaven.  A great game.  Cameron didn't help with the monsters, sneaking around and taking all the treasure!

Tigris and Euphrates

Pandemic Legacy Hobart - December

We Won!!!!   Barely.  Final score was 541 out of 1000.

December proved to be easy.  We had the hang of inoculating cities.  helped by the fact that the infection deck contained a cities that could be inoculated, and we had built lots of vaccine factories.  And we had 6 funded events!

Complicated Cows

Great Western trail at Camerons.  Consensus was that it is too complex.  Lots of mechanics that add nothing but complexity.

Pandemic Legacy - November

We lost again.  The game is tough!!!!!! 

Using a wasabi Pea instead of a Military Base

Pandemic Legacy Hobart - November

We have a cure!!!!  Well, we had to, as we hadnt solved the puzzles, so the game gave us a cure.  But we have a cure!!!

And we lost spectacularly!!!!

Pandemic Legacy Hobart - October

Things were getting hard

And then our colonel died!

This was treated very seriously!

We were all very supportive of Cameron

But we still scraped a win

Pandemic Legacy Hobart - September II

We lost -- we have lost both attempts at September.  The game is getting away from us ....

What shall we do?

The perfect move!

Oh - oh -- another city getting restless!

Pandemic Lagacy Hobart -- September I

So close.  We thought the initial disease break was tricky, with two outbreaks very close to each other.  Things looked bad when we got an epidemic on the first turn.  But none of the outbreaks expanded, and we quickly got all diseases under control.  We were about to cure two diseases, and the game looked so easy to win.  Then we got an epidemic -- a disease broke out next to our two close outbreaks, and then both outbreaks expanded, and in a set of chain reactions we lost the game, just like that.

Bruce the Sheeple

Played Agricola.  There was some doubts about the game from Cameron and Martha, but they enjoyed it in the end.

Martha's farm with Bruce the sheep.  Bruce was a pet initially, then put into the pens, and finally he was eaten!  Martha missed the comments about Martha's husband and the sheep -- but then again maybe she didnt and that's why Bruce became food!
  

August - Pandemic Legacy Hobart

We tried using the colonel for the first time.  He was shooting faded left, right, and center.  An easy victory this month!  (We still havent searched for the virologist -- I think we are setting ourselves up for a hard time!)

Pandemic Legacy Hobart - July 2

Powered through this easily.  Well -- sort of easily -- we would have lost if we didnt have the funded event card that let us see what epidemics were coming up!

We were off to a good start!

We won!  And we ate the cheese!

It was as easy as Cameron said it would be!

Pandemic Legacy Hobart - July

Destroyed.  But when you draw two epidemics together, the game becomes really hard!!!!

Crap!

Badness everywhere!

Christine picking the upgrades

Note no pictures of Martha eating :)

Tigris and Euphrates

A great game I really, really enjoyed.  Martha crushed Cameron and I.  Lesson learnt -- never build a ziggurat!!!!

Never move your head while a picture is being taken!!!!

Cameron and Christine battle it out on Mars!

Meanwhile, I am left in the dust.

We have fallen in love with Terraforming Mars!!!!

This was such a close game -- Christine got 140, and Cameron 135 points.  I was a poor last, with 80 points.  Like Cameron last game, I built a great engine, and then didnt have time to catch up!!!!

What are your predators? Tyrannosaurus Rex's!

Christine had to cancel at short notice, so we didn't play Pandemic -- we played Terraforming Mars instead.  It was a great game, the highlight of which was Martha's Tyrannosaurus Park which kept eating my cattle and powered her to victory, despite me dropping a couple of asteroids onto her facilities.  (Martha went heavily into exotic animal parks).  Cameron was peaceful and was the energy king, powering the planet -- if the game had gone longer he would have won.

Setting up the game

Mars as we built it.  Martha in the West (red), Cameron in the middle (blue), and me in the East (green)

Cameron checking some fine print on the corporation cards.