Friendly Games

Went to Hogs, and played with Greg (who is a teacher at Friends) and his sister Jennifer (I think -- my memory is horrible), and Anthony.

And we then finished off with some WWI dogfights.

We started out with Castles of Burgundy, where Greg won handily, out mathing me.

I got my revenge in Splendor, 

And we then finished off with some WWI dogfights.

Flying planes is getting serious!!!!

The Germans have a downed an allied plane!!!

Pandemic Legacy - June

It really is amazing how easy Pandemic Legacy is without Nick playing.

We won with zero outbreaks. We got to turn 4 yellow cards into equipment cards and we can cure red with one fewer card and it doesn't take an action to cure it.

Slave Smuggling!!!!

Paul, Leanne, and matty came over for a game of Freedom.  Unfortunately, Paul is moving to Melbourne -- so future games with Paul will be few and far between!!!

Freedom is an interesting game -- can you get the escaping slaves to freedom.  We won at the last possible moment, and it was a nail biter.  I would recommend this!!!!

Matty is explaining the rules

Some slaves are fleeing to freedom!  Can we get 22 of them to Canada?

Shooting Fish in a Barrel -- and Missing

Played a game of Flames of War against Malcolm.  He had his 21st Panzers.  I had British Armour.  It was a long drawn out game, with each side missing easy shots.  But the British luck can be summarised by the fact that 6 armoured cars tried to scoot around the British flanks and get side shots on the British armour.  They missed, but the return fire missed.  And this happened for 3 turns in a row!!!!!

Eventually Malcolm won:a 4-3 victory.

A French village to attack

Malcolm happy with the number of smoking British tanks.

Those pesky Armoured Cars!!!!

To the Strongest

Played To The Strongest with Rod, doing Pharsalus.  We were learning the rules, so we played on the simple level.  We each managed to outflank on our right, but Rod lost one of his generals early on to machine gun firing Cretan archers, and this really slowed down what he could do.  Eventually my flank attack worked, and Rod conceded.

My Cretan archers coming foward to shoot at the opposing Numidian Light Cavalry with a Heroic General.  I dur a ton of 9 and 10 value cards to kill the cavalry and the general!

 

The battle as it starts to unfold

Battle is joined.  Caesar (me) has elite legions.  Pompey (Rod) has double ranked recruit legions.

The move mechanic is by card draws.  If you can draw a card higher than the last one you played on a unit, you can move again.

Pompey has success -- his right flank beat a legion.  Only to have the Cretans draw lucky cards again, and destroy the victorious legion!

My flank attack just couldnt break through!

But when it did the raw legionaries were rolled up quickly.

Concordia

Went to the HOGS meeting.  The meeting started at 4:00 pm, but I didnt get there till 7:00.  So I was waiting till games finished to join in.  I did join in on a game of Concordia.  This is a VERY interesting game -- highly recommended.  Close to Agricola as one one my favorite games.

Turn 1 -- I was blue, and headed for Spain and Africa -- because they were close to where I was sitting.

Packing up -- lots of pieces to sort out

Flooded Fokkers

The plan was for a 4 player (2 players a side) WWI dogfight with Fokkers, Camels, Albatrosses, etc. using Wings of Glory.

However, floods in Launceston got in the way.  Only Lowell could make it.  Rob was being evacuated, and Rod was worried he wouldnt be able to get back home (a not unreasonable concern!)

So we did 4 planes each.  I had 2 Fokkers and 2 Albatross, while Lowell had a Bristol and 3 Camels.  I had a height advantage, but in the end that wasn't that much of an advantage!  I had to dive to the same level as Lowell to engage.

Water under the King St Bridge on the way home

There is a park and a swimming pool under that water!

The battle commences!

What a chaotic furball.  Kirchsten (Fokker with the stripes) is tailing a Camel

One Camel down.  But I keep confusing the Albatrosses, and they keep flying away from the combat.

Eventually, all of my planes were bought down.  But the Allies werent in good shape -- they had two planes that were held together by sticky tape!!!