The battle was a French bridgehead attempting to dislodge the Austrian forces. Richard & I played the Austrians, while Bruce & Scott were the French.
As the French Guns advanced, I opened up with my battery, totally missing them. Well this is off to a crap start. Bruce then returned the favour & wiped the only artilery the Austrians had off the field.
The French pushed the centre with their infantry attempting to dislodge the defenders in the town. The Austrians gave a good effort on the left flank.
Alas, the centre crumbled, however the battered French units were having their flanks crushed. I believe we called it a draw.
Then it was off to Craigs house to have a go at Batman! This was the Monolith game Kickstarter.
Craig had pre-determined the characters for each of us. I got Harvey Bullock with a group of GPD baton wielding officers.
We had 4 objectives to capture. We had already begun with protecting Witnesses (Orange figures). We also had to interrogate crooked SWAT cops, hack a computer console & retrieve a briefcase from one of the Main Criminals.
Harvey with squad in tow follows the Witness to the crime hideout.
As the Crooked Cops opened fire on the good guys, Harvey spelled off one of his officers with the Witness into a subway car. We opted to take out 3 of the 4 crooked cops (they were using Automatic Weapons on us), Harvey went after the remaining fella...he had a few questions to ask him.
It was then, that Clayface came out of another Subway car & made for Bullock.
Ignoring Clayface, Harvey continued after the crooked cop! Alas for Clayface, he found himself in a crossfire from the other forces of good & was taken down quickly.
By game end, we had gotten 3 of the 4 objectives completed. Mainly due to some lucky dice rolls.
The game is similar to Conan by using the track for the opponents. Dice pools determine the amount of actions a character can perform. With the stance of the character determining how much of his tokens he gets to return to his pool each turn. Resting obviously provides the greater return at the loss of doing much.
The guys are over tomorrow for our next Frostgrave game. Thanks for stopping by!
I had been curious about the Batman game and nearly backed it, looks fun.
ReplyDeleteI did back it, but its been backlogged as Frostgrave is my primary focus these days. The screen setup helps as they have an app that aids in showing which zones can see which locations. Saved a lot of time in calculating. Definately need someone running it who knows the system. Very similar to Conan!
DeleteBoth games lloked very interestin, but fr different reasons. The Nap action appears very typical and a lot of fun, but the Batman game, whilst an interesting looking game, seems to me to be lacking somewhat - thoughh quite that "what" is I can;t put my finger in.
ReplyDeleteYou're still lucky getting games in !
Thanks Zabadak. The Batman game, has nice boards done for it, but there is no denying...having that in 3d would be so much better! It takes a bit to get your head wrapped around the dice pools & their use for the various skills.
DeleteCool looking games!
ReplyDeleteThanks Simon!
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