Mage Knight

This week I decided to pick up a game, and I picked up the Mage Knight Board Game.  A close contender for game to buy was Rex, final days of an empire (the FFG Dune reprint).  But Mage Knight could well be my new favourite game ever™ edging out Chaos in the old World from it's throne.

It's an adventure game, you take on a suitably heroic persona, the Mage Knights, and go out in search of fame and treasure and the like.

If I have one complaint it's that the lore of Mage Knight is a little thin.  There is none of it in the game itself.  The biggest flaw is the cities, they there are 4 of them, named Blue City, White City, Green City and Red City.....  The very basic lore is that it's still set in the old Mage Knight Universe of the Atlantean Empire, but it was all reset when all the manastones in the world detonated killing millions.  So now the empire are rebuilding,  Into this steps the Mage Knights.  Working for the mysterious Council of The Void, they were given great power and all the council ask for in return is obedience.

Speaking of the Rulebook, it's very well done.  There are two of them.  The main book is uninspiring book of rules which reads much as the the Magic comprehensive rules does.  But there's a second walkthrough book which is much friendlier and sets up a basic scenario that introduces mechanics one at a time as you play.


The basic flow of the game is you have a deck of cards which have various actions.  And you draw a hand of them, and just have to do your best with that hand.  Moving your miniature round the board, killing enemies and interacting with the locals.  or venturing into dungeons for artifacts, the usual adventuring fare.

There are a variety of scenarios ranging for the full game of conquering all the cities, to others like getting the most keeps or exploring the most dungeons.

At the end you all get scored and whoever has the most fame wins.
Or you can play co-op which adds additional scoring for being completing your scenario objectives.

There are much better reviewers out there than me, but it truly excellent.

Name Change

I've changed the name of my blog because why not.

Netrunner!! (again)

So from 4 of us, each play each other once.

2 matches won, 1 Drawn

Or going by games, 5 wins 1 loss :D

My games went longer than anyone else, mostly due to a crippled economy.   Or maybe because Fishes decks were much more aggressive being Noise and Jinteki his games were shorter.  Who knows, Chris and Darren never played there games.  They didn't seem impressed.  Probably no more netrunner there.  Meh.  Be a shame, but would free up Thurs and Sundays though if theres never a chance of playing neterunner not much point turning up.  Though have got Fish on Thursday, so yay.

So heres my decks anyway

Deck Created with CardGameDB.com Android: Netrunner Deck Builder


Identity:

Gabriel Santiago: Consummate Professional (Core)


Total Cards: (45)


Event: (19)

Account Siphon (Core) x2

Inside Job (Core) x3

Special Order (Core) x3

Satellite Uplink (Trace Amount) x2

Sure Gamble (Core) x3

Diesel (Core) x2 ■■

Forged Activation Orders (Core) x2

Emergency Shutdown (Cyber Exodus) x2


Hardware: (5)

Dyson Mem Chip (Trace Amount) x3

Doppelganger (A Study in Static) x2


Program: (12)

Ninja (Core) x2

Sneakdoor Beta (Core) x2

Gordian Blade (Core) x2 ■■■

Corroder (Core) x2 ■■

Femme Fatale (Core) x2

Snitch (Cyber Exodus) x2


Resource: (9)

Bank Job (Core) x3

Compromised Employee (Trace Amount) x3

Decoy (Core) x3


Influence Values Totals -

 Anarch: 4

 Criminal: 72

 Shaper: 10



and




Deck Created with CardGameDB.com Android: Netrunner Deck Builder


Identity:

NBN: Making News (Core)


Total Cards: (49)


Agenda: (10)

AstroScript Pilot Program (Core) x3

Breaking News (Core) x2

Restructured Datapool (What Lies Ahead) x2

Private Security Force (Core) x3


Asset: (10)

Marked Accounts (Cyber Exodus) x3

Snare! (Core) x3 ■■

Edge of World (Cyber Exodus) x2 ■■

PAD Campaign (Core) x2


ICE: (21)

Data Raven (Core) x3

Tollbooth (Core) x3

TMI (What Lies Ahead) x3

Pop-up Window (Cyber Exodus) x3

Enigma (Core) x2

Wall of Static (Core) x3

Chimera (Cyber Exodus) x2

Caduceus (What Lies Ahead) x2 ■■


Operation: (5)

Closed Accounts (Core) x2

Hedge Fund (Core) x3


Upgrade: (3)

SanSan City Grid (Core) x2

Red Herrings (Core) x1


Total Agenda Points: 20


Influence Values Totals -

 Haas-Bioroid: 0

 Jinteki: 10

 NBN: 31

 The Weyland Consortium: 4

Netrunner

Netrunner tomorrow...can't wait!!

Regionalas are going this month, and through May.  Tempted to go down to the one in London on the 12th.  Hmmm

Orks vs Ultramarine/Imperial Guard action!

Colin ask and you shall receive.

The Ultramarine and the Guardsman

The Orks

Deployment

Blurry End of Turn one, the guardsman killed an ork!

End of turn 2 .  The orks tore the imperials a new one.  The space marine failed to hit anything all game

 There it was, a close fought battle between  Orks and Ultramarine/Imperial Guard.

Stuff

I would put this on Facebook, but I cannot.  Alas. Would be a wider audience.

PS Two - One controller, good nick.  Was only used for ~ a month - £20

Rogue Trader rulebook
        Battle Manual
        Vehicle Manual                          -£10

One 3rd Editon rulebook.  Missing it's cover, else in decent condition
        Chapter Approved 1
        Codex Armageddon
        Codexes
                Tyranids
                Necrons
                Imperial Guard
                Dark Eldar
                Space Marines (x2)
                Witch Hunters
                Blood Angels
                Chaos Space Marines
                Dark Angels (x2)
                Daemon Hunters           - the lot, £20

4th Edition rulebook and the mini book
       Cities of Death
       Codexes
                Space Marines
                Tyranids                          - the lot £5
               
Horus Rising Novel                       -Free

Dark Heresy rulebook, and GM Screen  - £5

Rogue Trader roleplay rulebook              - £5
I also have collectors edition no. 83, Warrant of Trade personalised but it's there if someone wants it.  For a decent price.

5th Edition Rulebook, plus mini book    - £5

Dan Brown Books
           The Da Vinci Code
           Angels And Demons
           Digital Fotress                           - £1

Halo Novels
           The Fall of Reach
           The Flood
           First Strike
           Ghosts of Onyx                          - £5

2  sealed boxes of Tau Firewarriors (12 in box)
       1 Devilfish (opened, on sprue)         -£20


Descent 1.0 Plus Altar of Darkness Expansion.
Should all be there.  Some minor damage to character cards - £20


Talisman 3rd edition with Dungeon of Doom Expansion

Some minis painted by somneone that wasn't me.  -£10

Everything similar dumped in one lot. Just want rid, else it's prob for the bin.

Edit no.1

Not for the bin, but need cash.  Eldar Revenant Titan with Pulsars
All parts here.  Unassembled.  -                             £100 (£190 new from FW)
Worth pointing out, two 'oh it's FW' faults.  One nick in the torso, easily fixed.
One spot of damage on the tip of one of the, for lack of a better term, Skirts.  Fixed by me.

general post

Got a hug today <3 That was nice

No internet access other than google.  Turns out not being able to pay the phone bill  gets your broadband suspended.  Blogger is part of google though, so yay.

But back to gaming, was down the shop today.  Played a game of netrunner vs fish.  Won as corp, lost to being silly against Jinteki as Runner.  Should never run as your last action against them.  Scoring finished 14-10 to Fish.  So great job there.  My win streak is over.

There was a magic draft tournament for a new set today.  I knew I would be bored, but as I said to Steve, I could of been lonely here at home, or lonely at the shop surrounded by people. That was the hug moment.

Not much else to say really.  No internet sucks.  The dark void that is my future  sucks.  A lot of stuff is sucking.

This isn't very gamey.  Er...meh.  Need to vent somewhere I guess