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Greetings,

I figure this can be an ongoing thread where we talk about what games we played and what we thought about them. This can include wargames, board games, card games, video games, table-top RPGs, or whatever.

During Christams vacation, I typically get togheter with my family and we play a lot of games. Here is what we played over the break....

1. Phase 10- Card Game- Makers of Uno- I hate this game.

2. Mice and Mystics- Boardgame- Unknown maker- A light dungeon hack except your are mice. Fun and light. Interesting mechanics for how the monsters operate.

3. Ugg-Tech- Fantasy Flight- A fun game where one person tries to instruct the others on how to build things using grunts and beatings. highly amusing, but I'm not sure about its replay ability.

4. 5 of a Kind- Board Game/Trivia- Endless Games- You move around the board and have to name of 5 things in a category to keep going. Example: 5 Star Trek races, 5 celebrities on Dancing with the Stars, 5 soft drink brands, etc. Okay, but not super challenging for a trivia junkie like me.

How about you?

My plans from the last couple of days through Jan 5.

Zombiecide (Played Saturday night--3 games)
Bolt Action (coming up this morning)
Sails of Glory (later this afternoon)
A Call to Arms Starfleet (this evening)
Flames of War (New Year's Day -- invasion of Crete)
Pathfinder (Jan 2-3)
Call of Cthulu (Jan 4)
World of Darkness (Jan 4)
Run out the Guns (Jan 5)

We've developed a rather active gaming group here in the frozen tundra.

My list:

Dixit
Once upon a time (a narrative card game a bit like dixit)
Warhammer 40k
Warmachine / Hordes
nWod

While down in Louisville visiting friends and family for the holiday, I got together with some old friends and played a pair of games.

Coup. An interesting card game based on bluffing. it was interesting, but not a huge fan.

King of Tokyo. The players are giant monsters thrashing Tokyo. Fast paced, simple, fun, dice based game. Being a big Godzilla fan, I might be biased, but I had a blast. Will look into picking up my own copy.

I also played some apples-to-apples kids/junior with my folks/son/nephews. Not a bad family game.

My brother gave me a copy of power grid, but I haven't played it yet.

Game of thrones 2 player game from fantasy flight

Judge Dredd Skirmish game - 3 quick games - Apes vs Judges
usual fast and furiuos fun.

Warmachine - 2 small games - Cryx vs Menoth
Couple of ok learning games - bit concerend about a gfew things - the pretend not premeasuring and kill the warlock wins regardless of scenario.

2 games of Pandemic - one of which only lasted a single players turn!

Quick game of Guilotine

the other with the new expansion we won most enjoyable

-This last Saturday I played an apoc game with6 players and 18k points total.
-then played 2-1850pt games of 40k afterwards practicing for an upcoming GT.

Sunday I played 2 more game of 40k at 2k points testing out my new eldar/tau with a buddy.

This upcoming Saturday and Sunday I'm hoping to try zombiecide for the first time with a bunch of buddies. And get a few more practice games of 40k. I might also get to try some battle fleet gothic depending on time.

So far this break I have player:
Settlers of Catan
Merchants of the middle ages
Warhammer Fantasy (3-4 times so far)
Played some battlefield 4 as well haha

I would like to get in a few games of carcassonne and hopefully some 40k but we will see how it goes.

Since Dec 22, I have played..

Dominion (6 games)
King of Tokyo (twice)
The Lost Dutchman (kickstarter board game) (once, and hopefully never again)
Letter Roll - twice
Snake Oil - Twice (and will get my own copy)
Hey! That;s my Fish (3 times)
40k (once)
Dreadball (once)

think that is it...

EDIT.. last 2 days..

Scatergories over New Years
Cards against Humanity
Agricola
7 Wonders

A lot of really terrible board games for kids (my son loves board games, but some of the ones he likes are terrible).

Also played a lot of good board games, too with him. Stratego, checkers, Sorry, Monopoly even once.

Couple games of magic with my son.

Got in a handful of games with some friends just prior to xmas of 40k. Got my Tau in against some Dark Angels.

Also been playing the crap out of War Thunder recently. Hella fun, even if the Russian planes are OP beyond all gak.

Zombicide
Can't stop
Loka
Dreadball
Injustice
Army of Two: Devils Cartel

Might be missing a few things. I didn't list the video games I only played for 5 minutes.

Zombicide twice
Flash point Fire Rescue Four times

Welsh_Furey wrote:
Game of thrones 2 player game from fantasy flight

For thos eof you near a Target Store, the X-wing and Game of Thrones games are on clearance now afte rthe Holidays. At my local it was 50% off, but at others it was only 30%. However, a good deal to be had if you want to try these games out.

Several games of Deadzone, not sure how many.

I've spent a lot of time on Lego Star Wars 3 on the 360, it's just so simplistically brilliant.

I'm dying to get some games of 40k in at some point soon, skirmish games are all well and good but I need some massive-scale destruction. Should be heading down to a monthly game club this weekend to scratch that itch.

In terms of tabletop stuff, I've played a game of 40k and two games of Deadzone (go Enforcers!) and that's about it. I've spent most of my time working my way through Kingdom Hearts again with my shiny new copy of the 1.5 HD Remix

I've played nothing...

I've been stuck with the in-laws in Indiana :(.

I've had a pretty good week, comparatively:

Battletech: Alpha Strike
Battlestar Galactica
Mansions of Madness

This past week I've played:

Battleline(fast paced card game made by GMT games)
Warmahordes
X-wing Mini game

This past week, the wife and I have been playing a lot of

DnD. We're attempting to do a 2 person, 4 PC party campaign, with each of us switching who DMs occasionally, to keep things interesting.
Firefly the Board game. Fun board game where the face of the cover sums it up: get a crew, find jobs, keep flying. Would probably be a lot more intensely competitive if we had more players, but hey.
GoT the LCG. Played a couple games with the wife, who is terrible at, and doesnt like "intrigue" games.

Other than that, ive been switching between Neverwinter online, Dark Souls, Demon's Souls

I have been wanting to play some "classic" 40k (ok, just 5th edition, but still), as well as start up a new Warmachine army... but we cant get everything we want right?

Played a fun board game last night called Space Alert.

You are part of a ship, you and your crew have to deal with certain threats that occur during the game. However, you pre-plan your moves. It is a cooperative game, everyone vs. the game.

10 minutes of franticly trying to figure out who is doing what where, followed by 10-20 minutes of hilarity as you realize how badly everyone muffed it up!

Edit: Oh, we also played Farkle. A mostly mindless dice rolling game.

Cards against Humanity (two times)
Apples To Apples (two times)
Scipbo (four games)
Race for the Galaxy (six goes)

Settlers of Catan (Mostly Winning, but my mum is getting the hang of the rules, and she is vicious).

Apples to Apples

Pokemon Y (Lots of Pokemon Y. Must save some for the busride back to Uni)

Phase Ten

And, of Course, the Week ain't over.

On Sunday I played the last game of 40k (technically 30k) ever (well that's the plan) before I sold the last of my collection. My Sons of Hours vs a horde of bugs backed up by a couple of carnifex and a hive tyrant. Pretty cinematic battle, Mortiat kind of ruined the left flank and ended up killing a carnifex, 3 Nid warriors and a load of gaunts. I had a load of reavers in the centre who were eventually massacred by swarms of bugs. Then my awesome centurion siege breaker commander killed the Hive tyrant in CC and managed to hold off the guards. In the end I lost but it was fun enough end to gaming.

Good festive boardgames day last week. Got a game of "Twilight Struggle" in with an old gaming buddy who got it for Xmas. Great stuff. It's a seriously impressive piece of design, managing to be a fairly large-grained simulation of half a century of Cold War coups, brush wars, propaganda, space race, etc., but staying fast-moving and exciting. He won, largely thanks to Chernobyl and Solidarnosc nobbling my popularity in Europe.

Also squoze in a great game of Settlers of Catan, naturally. My girlfriend has totally learned the art of the subtle victory there. "Only six victory points, see, I'm no threat, only six victory points... oh, what's this? I now have Longest Road, and a couple of one-VP cards in my hand? That makes ten doesn't it?"

Plus Skyline 3000 and Love Letter. Won both of those though.

Got in a few games of Icehouses last night for NYE too.

Digital games: bits of Minecraft, plus my usual daily addictions (online Scrabble and online Agricola). Planning on playing Shank tonight, and either Papers Please or Stanley Parable tomorrow.

Since the 21st, I've played the following:
Chrononauts (a card game where you try to change history to accomplish missions or personal goals) it was a good game, might have to look into it. There are a few expansions that push the timeline forward or backward.

Gloom, a game where you .take your family as miserable as possible and kill them off while you try to make your opponents' families as happy as possible before you kill them off. I own this game, and I've been meaning to get the expansions.

Pandemic, board game from Zman Games where you try to stop four diseases from killing the world's population... we lost :(

Small World Underground, an alternate game world from the makers of Small World, plays the same, just different races and special abilities.

Elder Sign, a board game by ffg, like Arkham Horror, but with cards instead of a board. Played three times, won all three times. Very close games.

Flames of War Cold War rules written by mwincboo very fun rules that improve upon the flames of war ruleset.

HeroClix
X-wing
Warmachine

Will be playing Bolt Action tomorrow and Warmachine on Friday

Played a half game of Dreadball Saturday evening, after watching a couple other games. Almost suggested playing the remaining turns, but it was late enough as-is. We played a partial game to let a friend get an idea of how the game works.

Pathfinder Adventure Card Game: Rise of the Runelords.

Very fun game!

My daughter keeps asking me to play Little Big Planet 2. So I have.

Kind of fun in a Super Mario Bros. kind of way.

Friday, I played Warmachine and Hordes. It's picking up steam(punk) at my store. So we've got a few new players, and I didn't want to smash them into the ground with my normal troll list, so with the exception of Whelps and Krielstone Bearers, I took things I've never really used like a Blizter, Winter Troll, Storm Troll, and Grim Angus...

Really fun game against a Circle army that can be deadly if played right (from what I can tell), gave the guy some tips on what he could have done better.

Tomorrow is HeroClix, Thursday is Endless Fantasy Tactics, Friday is more Warmachine, and Saturday is DnD.

Played a card game called Castle Keep.

Each player gets a hand of card sand is trying to build a wall around a citadel. Only certain types can link up with others. Oh, and your opponent can knock them down too.

Simple family fun.