Shadespire

Steve is indisposed this week so I pottered alone over to Geeneral Ballroom's place for a game.

He's painted all the models from GWs new miniatures boardgame Shadespire, so that's what we played.

Here's a few pics.

Despite my initial concern that I was being tricked into playing Age of Sigmar it was a good fun little game.

General B has painted the models beautifully, although I have to say that the aesthetic of the GW fantasy ranges leaves me pretty cold.

The mechanics of the game seemed quite simple, though I imagine skilled players will beat inexperienced players very easily.

Family Games

With a fast approaching summer holiday in Wales I thought it was time to spend some of my Games Workshop share windfall (thanks Mr Kirby) on some non GW gaming products (in your face Mr Kirby). Not that I'm expecting it to pelt down with rain incessantly for two weeks, but you can never be too careful.

First off was Forbidden Island, heartily endorsed by my infrequent SAGA opponent and father of two children of a similar age to my own. I'd been looking for some sort of co-operative game, as relaxing family boardgames can sometimes become stressful when you have two testosterone crazed competitive boys (and their testosterone crazed, competitive father) trying to WIN, or at least ensure their sibling doesn't beat them. This apparently is simple to learn but with plenty of repeat play, so we'll see how things go.

The next game is Guillotine, which I've been meaning to get hold of since we played it in the pub the night before Salute. I thought it was great at the time - hoping it'll live up to the memories now the beer has worn off.

We'll be taking Carcassone and Chaos Marauders as well.
I'll also be packing Tara, Hill of Kings, but as I've owned that for about four years now and still haven't worked out the rules, it may once again come back unplayed.