We had a good showing at the club with 12 people coming out & 3 games running.
Gaston ran Rostov 41
Evan brought out Black Orchestra
This game is about the plot to kill Hitler & begins in 1936 with various members of the German military & civilians plotting for the demise of the rising popularity of Hitler.
The game is co-operative, with the various conspirators preparing their attempts, while avoiding the notice of the gestapo.
I played General Ludwig Beck. You can see on the card, that there are various levels of motiviation, suspicion & the amout of items you can hold to carry out the various plots (which are determined by cards). The various spaces on the board have effects which may assist you with lowering your suspicion by dumping items, but then these items are lost.
We bumbled around at the beginning as all of us but Evan had never played. Event cards are played after each players turn that cause effects which will either increase Hitler's influence or lower it as various historical events occur.
An interesting game which we will need to play again with the knowledge we now have of the mechanics. We did manage to assassinate Hitler just before the store was going to close, so accomplished our mission.
Bryan brought out Heroquest to have some of the lads do a dungeon crawl.
Not sure how it went, as the game did seem to wrap up early.
Thanks to everyone for coming out & to the hosts of the games we played!
Three very interesting looking games, all with their own pros and cons (no doubt). Black Orchestra looked to be a very fun game that would be played many times over, where as the age of Heroquest means I probably played this a lot of tines already. Rostov 41 is like so many other hex-based games and would have to have some wonderful rule ideas or mechanics to make me want to play it.
ReplyDeleteA dozen people for a games club looks like a veyr healthy club to me.
Thhree good games but Black Orchestra looks to very very entertaining.
ReplyDeleteIt was certainly different & in ways similar to The Thing. Will certainly need to play it again to get a better handle on the mechanics
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