After the
Ronin
Campaign on Saturday, the gaming raged on into Sunday!
Starting at 10am we kicked the days gaming off with a game
of
Ikusa…
Cory (from Calgary) Paul (of
Sabre’s
Edge in Winnipeg) and Curtis (a local pal) joined in.
It took us a while to get going as none of us had ever played... or perhaps Cory had played the original version a couple decades ago...? Anyway, took some figuring out, but it was a totally fun game and I would definitely play it again. Funner than Axis & Allies!
(Remember: click on the pictures
for a bigger version)
Cory shows us how it’s done in
Turn One by laying the smack down on EVERYONE!
A little more careful planning
was required from Turn Two onwards…
Things looking bad for my Purple
armies.
Paul took me down by
assassinating my last daimyo with a Ninja and then cleaning up his army during
the ensuing chaos. Fortunately for Paul I had a crapload of dudes that all
quickly swore fealty to his Daimyos and kind of made the rest of the game a
foregone conclusion…
Paul's Big Green Machine!
Feudal Japan was kind of the Big
Theme of the weekend so I bought Samurai Swords for the winners of the
Ronin
Campaign and Ikusa.
We then cracked the copy of
Smash
Up Cory had brought me for my birthday – we all had a hearty laugh
when I opened the rather large box to find only fourlittle decks within! (I guess they were planning for expansions...?)
The game was a whole lot of fun.
I think I ended up winning with my Zombie Leprechauns. It was a tight race as
everyone else was within a point or two of winning.
Paul played Alien Wizards, Cory
had Robot Dinosaurs, and Curtis ended up with Ninja Pirates!
After a quick supper out at
Amigos we were back for more gaming. Starting with a game of
Munchkin
Conan
It seemed like a pretty slick
system. Finnegan and I started off playing Pick Patrol – Finnegan was Pink
Leader and I played Pink One and Pink Two – two rookie piolots that were out on
a training mission when we happened to run into a flight of TIE-fighters
piloted by Amanda and Keria
Amanda trying to crash her
TIE-fighters into each other.
Quite the mess – I’m surprised
no one actually DID collide and blow up!
I think this was shortly before
Pink Leader went BOOM! I managed to take out one of the TIE-fighters with one
of my Rookie Pilots before we had to call it a night… it was getting waaaaaaaay
too late and we were pretty much all gamed out.!
Thanks again to Paul and Cory
who came so far to make this weekend awesome!
Coming soon on Tim’s Miniature Wargaming Blog:
We now return to our regularly scheduled programming of
miniature painting and slightly less epic game reports… ‘til then…
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