Lots of games were played for the first time and old favourites looked great on the table again. Amsterdam was setup beautifully but did not get a play this time!
- High Society
- Odin’s Ravens
- The Quest for El Dorado: Heroes & Hexes
- Civilization: A New Dawn
- Imperium: Horizons
- Legendary Encounters: A Predator Deck Building Game
- Skull
- Ticket to Ride
- Labyrinth
- Carcassonne
- Heat: Pedal to the Metal
- Crash Octopus
- Harmonies
- Kingdomino
- Dungeon Mayhem: Monster Madness
- Deduckto
- The Last Kingdom Board Game
- Cyro
- Roll Camera!: The Filmmaking Board Game
- Shardhunters
Josh played The Last Kingdom Board Game for the first time. I’m not sure who won but Cliff was definitely enjoying the battles… maybe a little too much! See video evidence captured below.
Winter Games Fest Report by Mike
Mini-blog. Last weekend Carl and I drove to this year’s Winterfest Board event, representing CBG in Hobart! 🎲
We had organised to play some BIG games, starting with ‘Here I Stand’ – a six player behemoth on the Reformation – The Religion War of 1517-1532. You know that period of history you can’t stop thinking about? 😉
HiS first tabled at this years Meeple Escape, and despite playing all day for 3 turns with no result, this time we used a shorter scenario we could finish. After SEVEN & A HALF HOURS we had a winner… but more on that later.
The game started in 1532… The Catholic Church (played by me) was all-powerful and sins were forgiven (at a price). The Protestants (Judson) were spreading the New Testament and started by quickly getting the Good News into England.
England (played by Carl, first timer) as King Henry VIII had ‘in-game marriage’ problems. He needed an Heir, but the current wife was barren. Only way to fix that problem was a divorce, which he got for the low-low price of 1-card and 2-mercenaries to the Pope.
The Ottoman (played by Lu) went crazy in the Mediterranean Sea pirating victory points and cards from other players. Piracy was an action only available to the Ottoman Empire, and it became very concerning (and kinda awesome to watch until he stole a card from the Pope hehe).
The second turn was the most eventful. Wars need to be declared at the start of the turn. The French declared War on the Hapsburgs (played by Vandoon) who was already at war with the Ottomans. However the big twist was coming.
After a few turns into the game – successfully giving birth to an Heir – The English (Carl) played a card that allowed him to declare war at any time — surprising the entire table as he joined the popular war against the Hapsburgs.
The Ottomans attacked the Hapsburgs capital, Vienna, which was protected by 6 troops. It was a big dice roll-off… with Lu rolling nine dice, he rolled six 6’s to win and cripple the Hapsburgs (and ottoman’s jumped 22vp). Amazing!
The Papacy fell behind and so attempted to burn some religious heretics at the stake (and failed). The Hapsburgs – fighting on all sides – threatened the French in Paris and played Shenanigans on the English. He put up a good fight.
It was a close game, however, we had a clear winner — the Ottoman Empire.
End scoring:
Ottoman 24 – winner
Joint 2nd – English, French, Protestant, Hapsburgs on 19
Last – Papacy 18
Approx time played: 7.5hrs
The end. It didn’t feel like 7.5hrs either! So much fun.
Carls successful Heir to the throne… and 5VP. He just needed to roll a six. 😋
