Games!

So today played some games...that weren't Magic!! OMG.  Although magic did occur later, it was mostly for a guy who had never played it (I though there was none of this variety of person left in the world, but alas he seems to be now corrupted) so mostly OK with that.

So first up there was the pathfinder card game.  Been ages since I played with a new character, and well miss the fun things you wind up with later on.  We lost that scenario, call it bad luck or whatever.  My barbarian was struck in one location all game, with her pitiful hand size meaning her explores were few and far between.  Never even found a henchmen in that location.  Ho hum.  Also we got scuppered by encountering things from Adventure's 2 and 3 which we had no chance of beating.  Can't agree with that, but not going to argue with anyone about it, I never do.  Th game difficulty does go up the more you have, so that probably didn't help.

Second up was Pandemic.  Now it's been literally years since I played it.  Picked it up yesterday as I remembered it being good.   A flick through the rulebook, familiarized myself with some bits, and not a lot else.  Completely misinterpreted one rule to mean it was the bottom card of the infection deck all the time (when it's only during epidemics >_>).  So after that happened, we struggled through a proper game.  Won the next one quite handily.  Might have been because we had 6, who knows.  It's only rated for 2-5.  Doesn't seem to change much adding a 6, but balance is a precarious thing.

And Quarriors.  Mostly got this as Wizkids are soon doing a Marvel Dice game which is getting good hype, although it is collectible (BOO HISS!)  And that has many of the same mechanics.  It's very similar to Dominion, but with Dice.  You buy dice that represent your Warriors (or Quarriors as they are called).  They attack other peoples dudes and if they stick around for a round, they score you points. First to a set value of points wins.  Still struggling to see any sort of strategy in it though.  Getting enough Quiddity (basically that's mana) to buy the good stuff is hard.

Also there was a X-wing tournament yesterday in MK.  2 wins, 3 losses.  So So.  Really didn't take a good list, but was hell of a lot fun as it had 2 interceptors and they are such fun to fly.  I'll write up that prob Friday, got a week of working so many hours to get through and won't be in the mood for writing any day this week.