Two losses against Kel after the two youngest went to bed Friday night. Got my butt handed to me both games… Both games had a really interesting mix of cards on the table, and I think I tried too many different things at once in both games. Fun though.

Played with Kel after the kids went to bed on Friday night. I got crushed. I thought I was off to a really good start and then I got way to complacent, letting Kel get cards I knew were really good for her. I can’t remember the final score, but it was somewhere on the order of 260 to 180.

Played Friday night with Kel and we finally won! I was the Researcher and Kel was the Medic. Ended the game with several cities threatening to have outbreaks and only three cards left on the player draw pile. Extremely tense, really fun game.

Played Friday night, we FINALLY won!

Played a game with the oldest and Ma (my mom, not Kel, the oldest’s mom). It was a pretty tight game throughout with a lot of trash talk between the oldest and I. My mom played really well for her first time playing, final scores were 135 (me) to 135 (oldest) to 107 (ma).

Great, fun game.

Played a quick game with Kel on Friday night after the kids went to bed. We STILL haven’t beat this game on the Normal difficulty yet! We were absolutely crushed this game. I was the Researcher while Kel was the Dispatcher.

I initially had three yellow cards in my hand while Kel had one. I traded over my 3 yellow to her and then she proceeded to constantly draw (and need to discard) red. By the time we finally beat yellow (took way too long), both red and blue were exploding. We only had two viruses cured by the time the eighth outbreak hit (several chain reactions didn’t help either).

Really fun game, but damn it will feel good when we finally beat it.

Got to play again, this time with four players: Angie (Medic), Brett (Scientist), Kel (Dispatcher), and I (Operations). We played on normal difficulty. The game was moving along pretty well, with lots of tension and several outbreaks. With only two outbreaks until we lost, it looked like we were going to be able to cure the final disease… then we ran out of player cards: game over. Fun game, but the ending was a little anti-climactic.

Angie and Brett came over for game night on Saturday and brought this. A lot of fun once again, I won. I really like the way the game ramps up, with the first age being a struggle to get things that will help you get resources that will be sooo needed in later ages. I’m also really liking the different strategies I see emerging on how you manage not only your neighbors but also those more “distant” players.

Great game.

Played again on Saturday after the kids had gone to bed. Played on the “normal” difficulty, Kel was the Scientist, I was the Researcher.

Had a few initial outbreaks in Asia and Eastern Europe which we took care of pretty quick. I remember joking at the time that the only city infected in all of western europe and the US was San Fran… Then Essen, London, and the East Coast of the US all exploded at once. We got destroyed.

I thought it was a really good game. It’s amazing how quickly things can get out of hand.

I wasn’t supposed to get this till Monday, but came home from work on Friday to find a package waiting for me :) Yay! New games!

Kel and I played after the kids went to bed on the easiest setting and won without too much trouble. We did have a few areas where outbreaks were threatening (Asia), but nothing too bad. Kel played the Operations (?) and I played the Dispatcher, randomly drawn.

With Kel and the girls out of town for the night at a “Camp-In” this past Friday, I was home alone after an evening of studying…

It had been over a year since I played this last so I decided to send a few adventurers in to kill a dragon :)

I used the Fighter, Cleric, and Ranger. I thought about adding the Rogue, but didn’t as I’ve almost never had traps in the dungeon and when we did, they were usually easily avoided. Big mistake this game.

So yeah, lots of traps. And giant spiders that immobilized my characters within range of the traps. Damn. Managed to avoid them enough though and an initial teleportation scroll really helped. Also helping was a ring of regeneration the rogue found (heal 1HP instead of drawing treasure).

After racking up a ton of kills to get some decent XP in the pot, coupled with some pretty tame encounters, the big ol’ dragon appeared and my team was in a really good position to take him down. Although the poor dragon rolled pretty bad and didn’t give the adventurers much of a tough fight, the tension was still very high as traps were everywhere on the board and the dragon likes to throw people around (positioning was key in the fight).

Lots of fun and really like this game.

Family game night, waaaaay overdue.

Pretty quick game with the whole fam. Middle kid was coaching everyone in an effort to extend the game length and in the process inadvertently ended up losing the game herself.

Lots of fun, lots of laughter.

Game night with Kel on Saturday night after the kids went to bed. Totally screwed up my start and felt like I was two or three turns behind the rest of the game. I think Kel almost doubled my score.