Cameron's Place

Went to Cameron's place for dinner and games.  Played Spyfall after dinner -- immense fun!!!!  I was the spy twice -- but never caught!  Tristian was really really good at this.

Games Laboratory

Caught up with Lowell at the Games Laboratory!  Played X-Wing, and Lowell (of course) trashed me!!!!  Hopefully this is the start of several games with Lowell as I travel to Melbourne.

Gaming in Style!!!!!

We played upstairs though.  Lowell planning my demise!!!!

Scythe and more

Played Scythe at the club.  I was learning, and I had my win strategy planned out for next turn, when one of the players (called Panda for no obvious reason) made a come from behind and win the game move that he had obviously been planning for a long time!

The game was fun, and I can see why it is near the top of the BGG rankings. 

We Started with Scythe

Then tried Roll for the Galaxy.  But Greg had to read the rules as he explained it to us. 

It was all too hard, so we played Race for the Galaxy.  Martha trashed us!

DiCon Day 2

I played in the Twilight Imperium game.

To cut a long story short, two thumbs up!!!!

Mike explaining the rules (the tech tree in this case)

The start.  I was red (specialising in trading), inbetween Martha (specialising in technology) and David (specialising in politics.  I thought it would be a nice quiet corner of the world ...

I started exploring, and almost immediately my fleet hit a supernova and was destroyed :(

I was hemmed in by the supernova, asteroids, and a gravity rift.  I had to move tovards David.

Lots of people playing various games

David destroyed my new fleet.  While everyone else expanded, I was stuck :(.  But the game was so much fun!

DiCon Day 1

I couldn't play all day, because I had promised my Swiss home stay student that I would take them to Russell Falls.

I did drop in at the end of the day for 'Two Rooms and a Boom'.  A party game where you had to determine what role each player had, and get the bomber into the same room as the president (if you were on the bomber's team) or keep the bomber away from the president (if you were on the president's team.

The Falls were lovely!

No one trusts anyone -- who is the bomber?

Lots of secret negotiation going on

I was a red pawn -- no special abilities apart from a desire to assassinate the president.

Dropped in to Jims

I arrived late to the usual Tuesday night games at Jim's, mainly due to celebrating Taco Tuesday at the local Mexican restaurant.

I arrived just in time to see Mike being demolished.

I wasn't game to try the special.  I suspect it was with 'Grim Reaper' chillis -- some of the worlds hottest!

Jim finishing off surrounding and destroying Mike.  The troops in the foreground are part of the massive 'dead pile'.

Destruction in France

Went to the bunker rats, and took my French army for some early WWII Flames of War.  My army was French reservists.  And they performed roughly the same as they did historically.  Griggsy walked over me, hardly breaking a sweat!!!  My French died in droves.  And, to make it historical, it was all the French troops generals fault!!!  I.e., I didn't use the French at all well!!!

A beautiful French countryside to fight over

Griggsy planning my destruction