Date: 16th November 2013
Venue: The Monkeyhouse
Participants:
- Goggsy
- The Kevinator
- Lorenziboom
- Monkey
Itinerary:
- mostly boardgames, with an unintended co-op emphasis
Hardened Beardgamers travelled from far and wide (much like they had in Tales of Arabian Nights in Oktoberfest - but less psychedelic) and descended upon the den on all things Monkey. Sadly, due to various forgotten social arrangements and solitary felines, there were fewer games squeezed in. Still plenty of quality in there though.
Game 1 - Castle Panic (including The Wizard's Tower expansion)
Oh boy! Oh boy! Oh boy!
We had all played this before in vanilla mode and it has, on occasion, been a little on the easy side. That said, I have lost before and most games have been a close run thing. This previous experience had not prepared us for the tide of cardboard that was going to surge towards our lovely walls for the next two hours.
The expansion brings a little more complexity to the game, as there are now flying and burning critters charging out of the forest intent on pulling down all stone structures they can lay their hands on. These are mostly a bit more powerful and seem to come faster and harder than in the original game. Thankfully there is now a nice big ivory (cardboard ivory that is) tower full of scrolls, grimoire and other wizardy clobber that we can use to fend off the jazzed up horde.
We were doing quite well, the initial surge had abated a little bit and then a uberboss popped out of the magic bag of doom. I can't quite remember if it was a Chimera or a Hydra, but whichever it was it cut off our access to all the big juju on the wizard's tower... not good.
Walls fell. Then towers fell. We fought on, darting between the rubble to pass each other cards, dodging the bits of burning troll that were falling out of the sky and managed to see off the uber boss and get our grubby mitts on the spells again. Sadly, just as we caught our breath, we saw the tower with all the goodies.. yes, the wizardy ivory one... collapse and with it our morale. We fought on, but the cardboard beasties had got the better of us.
Thankfully, I was rendered dead by a piece of flying masonry as the last tower collapsed. So I missed all the limb rending and burny chomping that the trolls etc subjected the others to.
Cardboard 1 - 0 Beardgamers
Game 2 - Race for the Galaxy
This went on too long. Whilst it is a good game, it does not lend itself to pick up, yes, I know what I am doing now after 2 turns type play. Especially when two of us had never played before and the other two had only played twice, a long... time.. before.
About 3/4 of the way through we....
Interlude - break for nice porky stew with a kick and some apple soup. V tasty (but still not as good as that black bean soup - I MUST HAVE that recipe... gimme gimme gimme)
... then we finished the last 1/4.
It was, in the end, a comfortable win for Goggsy (as he was not hosting this time it was allowed) - but as the first half of the game was largely four of us staggering around in the dark banging the batteries in the rules torch, it probably doesn't count as a full on victoire!
Rules 1 - 0 Beardgamers
Game 3 - Pathfinder Adventure Cardgame
I am not going to try and claim this is the GMless RPG you have always wanted. It isn't.
It is a co-op card game with LOTS of cards, lots of luck/randomness, levelling up a' la' RPG (more Torchlight/Diablo than PnP RPG). Persistence between adventures, l337 loot to get.
On its own terms I think it works and is enjoyable enough. As a PnP RPG it is useless.
Anyway. I'm thinking I might give our adventures in Pathfinder dedicated posts, so for now just let it be said that we did, eventually, succeed. So...
Cardboard 1 - 1 Beardgamers
So a draw in the end. If only we had brought our papier mache making forks we could have triumphed... next time, Carboard, next time you'll pay.
Saturday, 7 December 2013
The Oktoberfest
Date: 12th October 2013
Venue: Big G's Game Pavilion
Participants:
- Big G
- Kevlar
- Da Boom
- Mad Mik Monkeh
Itinerary:
- play the sh*t out of boardgames
As the inaugural post 40 day of boardgames, there was much scoping of potential victims and chest puffy, alpha male activities. Games actually played, with a short narrative and detail of how much I lost follow. But first, a nice pic of some of the games touted by the host:
Game 1 - King of Tokyo
Ooooooh was it close. Big G got lucky with a poison power up, sending the rest into a terrified spin. They did, sadly, rally and start to batter the proverbs out of me. Monkeh fell first, with a all or nothing last gasp where Big G could win all or lose everything. He managed to fell Da Boom and fall one die short of finishing off Kevlar. Stupid (but fantastic) game.
Victor - Kevlar
Game 2 - Citadels
Kevlar triumphed yet again.He handed out pwnage like it was marzipan. Great game, but not much to say on it. Not that I am bitter.
Victor - Kevlar (again)
Game 3 - Nuclear Escalation
Old school 80's game. We all sit about pretending not to be pointing nukes at each other and then we unleash HELL at each other. Not any normal hell but NUCLEAR HELL!!
Kevlar got going early with an attack on Big G, incurred the wrath of the rest of the world and, ultimately, managed to assure mutual destruction with Da Boom. Sadly, this left Mad Mik Monkeh and Big G in a cold war situation which the Monkeh was winning, but just to make sure he nuked the crapookeh out of Big G to find himself the last man standing. I am sure he enjoyed loitering with malicious intent on the irradiated husk he had made himself king of. Hope he choked (metaphorically) on it.
Victor - Mad Mik Monkeh
Game 4 - Zombie Dice
BRAAAINS!
Da Boom was inspired by a recent viewing of Zombieland and strode ahead and munched on more survivor heid than everyone else. Da Boom - Craploads, Survivors - diddly squat, The Rest of Us Zombies - not enough to beat Da Boom.
Victor - Da Boom
Interlude for Scran - Slow Roast Pork with slightly healthier sides
Game 5 - Tales of the Arabian Nights
Details to follow - in short, Big G was a goatsnakemerman and everyone else was a little more sane. Kevlar almost won but was pipped to the post by Monkeh.
Victor - Mad Mik Monkeh
All in, everyone but the host won. This boardgame stuff is rubbish. Anyone for Call of Duty?
Venue: Big G's Game Pavilion
Participants:
- Big G
- Kevlar
- Da Boom
- Mad Mik Monkeh
Itinerary:
- play the sh*t out of boardgames
As the inaugural post 40 day of boardgames, there was much scoping of potential victims and chest puffy, alpha male activities. Games actually played, with a short narrative and detail of how much I lost follow. But first, a nice pic of some of the games touted by the host:
Game 1 - King of Tokyo
Ooooooh was it close. Big G got lucky with a poison power up, sending the rest into a terrified spin. They did, sadly, rally and start to batter the proverbs out of me. Monkeh fell first, with a all or nothing last gasp where Big G could win all or lose everything. He managed to fell Da Boom and fall one die short of finishing off Kevlar. Stupid (but fantastic) game.
Victor - Kevlar
Game 2 - Citadels
Kevlar triumphed yet again.He handed out pwnage like it was marzipan. Great game, but not much to say on it. Not that I am bitter.
Victor - Kevlar (again)
Game 3 - Nuclear Escalation
Old school 80's game. We all sit about pretending not to be pointing nukes at each other and then we unleash HELL at each other. Not any normal hell but NUCLEAR HELL!!
Kevlar got going early with an attack on Big G, incurred the wrath of the rest of the world and, ultimately, managed to assure mutual destruction with Da Boom. Sadly, this left Mad Mik Monkeh and Big G in a cold war situation which the Monkeh was winning, but just to make sure he nuked the crapookeh out of Big G to find himself the last man standing. I am sure he enjoyed loitering with malicious intent on the irradiated husk he had made himself king of. Hope he choked (metaphorically) on it.
Victor - Mad Mik Monkeh
Game 4 - Zombie Dice
BRAAAINS!
Da Boom was inspired by a recent viewing of Zombieland and strode ahead and munched on more survivor heid than everyone else. Da Boom - Craploads, Survivors - diddly squat, The Rest of Us Zombies - not enough to beat Da Boom.
Victor - Da Boom
Interlude for Scran - Slow Roast Pork with slightly healthier sides
Game 5 - Tales of the Arabian Nights
Details to follow - in short, Big G was a goatsnakemerman and everyone else was a little more sane. Kevlar almost won but was pipped to the post by Monkeh.
Victor - Mad Mik Monkeh
All in, everyone but the host won. This boardgame stuff is rubbish. Anyone for Call of Duty?
Friday, 6 December 2013
Howdy
So... anyway. Enough of this digital massive multiplayer nonsense. Time to get back to some old school, stare 'em in the face, make the whites of their eyes bleed as you beat (or get beaten by) them. Or maybe some co-op shenanigans. Regardless...
As my friends (which, let's face it, are the likely readers) already know, I recently hit the ripe old age of 40. My mid-life crisis kicked in, a bit early if you ask me, and it manifested itself via the gift of good old boardgames and scotch.
The long and short of this is that I have duped/persuaded/press-ganged some chums into playing various boardgames for fun. I have decided that in the gaps between these games days, I will spam the universe about the games days, the games played on them and, possibly, the scran devoured during them.
FYI - these games days have been called for somewhat vague reasons, probably a bad pun gone wrong - I don't recall, Beardgamage. There is a current trend of adding thematic puns on the end of this, just for giggles. For this I would apologise. If I didn't love them. Cannae beat a pun Cap'n.
So... this is the intro rant over. Welcome and hope it aint too painful.
As my friends (which, let's face it, are the likely readers) already know, I recently hit the ripe old age of 40. My mid-life crisis kicked in, a bit early if you ask me, and it manifested itself via the gift of good old boardgames and scotch.
The long and short of this is that I have duped/persuaded/press-ganged some chums into playing various boardgames for fun. I have decided that in the gaps between these games days, I will spam the universe about the games days, the games played on them and, possibly, the scran devoured during them.
FYI - these games days have been called for somewhat vague reasons, probably a bad pun gone wrong - I don't recall, Beardgamage. There is a current trend of adding thematic puns on the end of this, just for giggles. For this I would apologise. If I didn't love them. Cannae beat a pun Cap'n.
So... this is the intro rant over. Welcome and hope it aint too painful.
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