Gaming, gaming, gaming...

Invited the (now ex-) work crew to come around for another day of board and card games.  These are regular successes, and I think we are starting to make a tradition of them.

We got rolling at 1130am and first game on the table was ...

"Boss Monster". C brought her copy over that she got for xmas.  It is a great little game where the players are the monsters that rule their own little dungeon.  Each turn you try to improve your dungeon and try to either attract or avoid the adventurers who are ready to head out from town.  If your dungeon is dangerous enough, you can kill off 10 adventurers before being wounded 5 times yourself.
Neat little mechanics, easy to play (Kn grabbed it immediately) and the eight-bit game graphics on all the cards look great.  I'm gonna buy this ASAP.

Then we played 'Gloom'.  A game where killing off your own cards is the way to win.  You make your own family of cards as sad as possible, while cheering up the opposition, and then arrange an untimely demise for them at their lowest point.  The transparent cards are a great mechanic for altering the 'pathos'on each card, and the way the game becomes enhanced by each player telling the story of their family (and other families) as each unfortunate or fortunate occurance it played adds to the dark humour.  Kr loved this one, as did everyone. 

Then I introduced the crew to "RoboRally", being a bit more crunchy I wasn't sure how it would be received.  I shouldn't have worried - the first game didn't take too long, and everyone got into the mechanics and learnt a few lessons... and were challenged.  So (and this is pretty rare for our game days) a second game was called for.
Awesome RoboRally funtimes.  Lasers lased, Robots crashed, pushed and fell down pits (multiple times), flags were captured and robots wandered off in the wrong directions.  All great fun.  Went down really well.

Then 'SmallWorld' came out.  All the usual good stuff.  Trolls are becoming a favourite way to churn over coins while in Decline, as no one usually wants to go through the effort of digging them out.  Amazons provided the usual scary invasion, and I took the DragonMaster Dwarves more for the fun of using the Dragon than for more good tactics.  C, J and myself finished close - but T streaked away for a solid win. 

Then we all gathered around the new Munchkin board for a game of Munchkin: Legends expanded with Únnatural Axe'.  The board was warmly received, which was gratifying, and we had a great game of Munchkin with plenty of monster slaying, wheeling and dealing, a few backstabs and a final thrilling race to the finish - as C stole monsters from Kn to fight, and everyone threw in efforts to make the monster too hard for her to defeat, but she kept coming back with another card and finally got the win.

It was time for the crew to go home then (after about 10 hours of gaming) so that left the family to try "Hey, That's my Fish!".
A cute, simple game to set up and play.  Works a bit like checkers where you move your piece (the penguin) in straight lines to capture tiles - picking up the tile you just left.  The player with the most fish at the end wins.  Elegant.  Kn is enjoying it.

 Then we finished off the night with a final game of "Gloom", which everyone wanted to try again.

A great, tiring, but really fun day.  We'll line up another one for sometime soon.