Gears of War Boardgame Session Report

Game description from the publisher:

For a time, the humans of Sera knew peace...then Emergence Day came. The Locust horde arrived without warning, and countless horrors spilled forth from their underground burrows. The Coalition of Organized Governments (COG) struggled to fend off the subterranean threat, but their defenses were quickly crushed. With billions dead, humans turned their weapons of mass destruction on their own cities to deny the enemy control. Now the long struggle against overwhelming odds approaches one final, desperate stand.

This Tuesday we decided to play gears of war the boardgame by Fantasy Flight, as our DM for D&D was unavailable. What a great choice of game as the three of us who played, me, Phil Crompton and Rob from War and Hobby all had a really fun time getting our backsides kicked by the Locust Hordes.

In the scenario we picked we had to find a suitable place to put a scanning device which was going to map out the Locust nest that had taken up residence beneath the area.

Print and Play Delux - Barbarian Prince

I recently downloaded and played a solo game from the early 80's called Barbarian Prince. This game has its roots firmly in the age when fantasy gaming was king and solo gaming had mass appeal. The fighting fantasy books from Steve Jackson games opening up a world of interactive reading to everyone and computer games like the Hobbit were changing the way we played games on our own.

So we have been offered a sneak peek at the next edition of D&D, The Caves of Chaos adventure will be run in the next few weeks and our impressions of the system will be added to this artice plus pictures and links to video's of us playing the game.

Restoring and Painting Some Great Old 1980's Citadel Figures

After a recent visit to the games shop on Cooper Street, War & Hobby I came across a few old box sets of Citadel figures, Set 4 Runequest Aldryami and some old Citadel miniatures. Excellent I thought time to get my old school painting cap back on and get stuck in to them.