Articles tagged with: Boardgames

Finally, a long awaited order arrived with some interesting new games:

• Deathwatch: A Warhammer 40.000 book RPG. Being able to roleplay individual Space Marines (as alien-hunters instead of mere army soldiers), looked too appealing to let it pass. As far as I've read it is not a substitute for Rogue Trader but a newer version of the rules focusing on SMs. The book looks awesome but I have almost 400 pages to read!
• Death Angel: A card game version of Space Hulk that can be played from solo to 6 players (all with Terminator Squads, Genestealers are played automatically). I'm still reading the instructions and the system is quite clever and seems to have ported the basic feeling of Space Hulk battles.
• Castle Ravenloft: A module I didn't ever played on the old D&D converted into a boardgame full of miniatures, random maps and that also can be played solo or up to 5 people (with automatic rules for foes). I just assembled the contents and gave a quick look to the instructions (quite small, but the maps are random and there are lots of encounter cards).

I definetly want to prepare a Deathwatch campaign to play with my friends, but if I hadn't already too much to read, more stuff...

Posted on 2010-10-04

Finally, I've finished assembling all the pieces to be able to play Space Hulk.

Between a lot of Real World™ tasks and the arrival on pc of some nice games (specially Dragon Age), I've been a bit off from non-computer related gaming.

The assembled miniatures look just amazing, my only complaint is that they are clearly Blood Angels and I want Deathwing terminators, so even if it's not an easy task I'm going to try to reconvert them. Up to the moment I've only removed a few Blood Angel drop icons, but there is still a lot of work (and the incredible detail the miniatures have doesn't help to ease the task ;)

I'm halfway through the rulebook and unless my memory fails is almost the same rules of the first edition, but including Deathwing expansion weapons and Psykers/Librarians.

Time to find a free weekend morning to play it!

Posted on 2009-11-21

They had it so perfectly planned that I first new about this via an official email than in any website (even being held the Games Day). Games Workshop has officially announced the new Space Hulk limited edition.

There were rumors (even talking about a fully plastic version), and seems that part of them were true. The game will feature the following plastic units:

• 11 Space Marine Terminators,
• 1 Space Marine Terminator Librarian
• 22 Genestealers
• 1 Broodlord
• 3 plastic mission objectives: a dead Space Marine on throne, a Blood Angels artifact and a Cyber-Altered Task Unit.

Plus corridor sections, doors, markers, counters, dice, a sand clock (seems that they are keeping the "real time pressure" turns), the rulebook and a mission book.

Having a librarian, a captain and the broodlord looks like the rules will be a mixture of the original Space Hulk plus parts of the expansions. I'm eager to chech the new rules and test them!

Having more terminators and genestealers I hope rules can be adapted for more than two players (and I can switch to the old ruleset anyway).

The miniatures look amazing (alhough I'll probably convert and paint them into Deathwing Terminators, to join my existing army). The genestealers look fantastic too, and will add more variety to the dozens I already have (I'm actually thinking about doing some imperial guard conversions to create genestealer hybrids).

Ahh, I can't wait for the 5th of september (well, a few more days until the order arrives home).

Posted on 2009-08-17

A bit late (the game took place the 31th of october of 2008), but I'm catching up with pending photos from the camera :)

With my new "RPG table" (a big 180x120 cms folding table) and a box to store the hundreds of game counters, Luiso, JesusN and I enjoyed a nearly 5 hours playtime on our second WoW boardgame run.

As the most experienced player, Luiso used two characters.

This time we got into harder fights, usually with either stronger enemies, or packs of them

We had to group sometimes to fight them

If I remember well, we reached level 4 (equivalent to level 40 at normal WoW)

And as the last time, when we were starting to have hard quests with unique monsters, time run off and we had to stop playing

I love the game, the only problem it has is that takes a long time to finish the 30 turns it lasts. So if you plan to give it a shot, prepare for a full-day playing session!

Posted on 2009-01-15

I've received today my shipment of Zombies!!! expansions!

First of all I want to express my gratitude to Twilight Creations for the fast delivery. I bought directly from them and they've sent the shipment in first class (from US to Spain that means almost 22$ I haven't been charged!), the package arrived perfectly and with a special card as a gift :)

I had chosen the following expansions:

• Zombies!!! 2: A military base, new event and weapon cards, and new mutant glowing zombies.
• Zombies!!! 3: A mall. period. I love George Romero's film so it was a must have.
• Zombies!!! 3.5: A lot of new event cards (plus quite cheap).
• Zombies!!! 4: A stand-alone expansion with zombie dogs, new rules and scenario, plus 6 more players (allowing for 12-player games!)

There are more expansions but I decided to stick to this ones (I recommend checking BoardGameGeek for ANY boardgame you want info about).

I've also ordered a bag of 100 glowing zombies, that will arrive shortly in a separate shipment (as strange as it might look, the 100 zombies included in the base game can get short if game doesn't ends in about an hour!).

Posted on 2008-12-29