Post by Matt on Jan 27, 2016 13:33:44 GMT
Welcome to a new year of games in Nexus Arts Cafe.
We had 11 regular gamers come to play this month, so managed to get through a good range of games once again.
Steve and James dove into the Star Wars universe with X-Wing Miniatures and had a great time dogfighting in virtual space, James being the victor in this fight between two nippy Tie Fighters and a more powerful, but lone X-Wing. Sounds like this was a really good game and allayed fears that the base set wouldn't be interesting enough on its own. There are many more sets that can be purchased to increase the scale and variety of the battles and while they aren't cheap, they seem worth every penny if you enjoy the theme. The product is very high quality and obviously fun to play with (or just look at)!
Another table started with Labyrinth, treasure collecting in a moving maze - Laura managed to weave her way round the dungeon to gain more loot than Kieran, Dave & Val. On a side note, my daughter Niamh received Junior Labyrinth for Christmas and loves it - same concept, smaller map, so a recommendation there for any young ones you know who enjoy board games.
When James W and Steve concluded their time in space, they joined the Labyrinth table for a few rounds of Spyfall, a relatively new game of bluffing and deduction. Everyone receives a card with a secret location, except the spy (who gets a card saying they're a spy). Players ask questions to try to find out either who the spy is or (if you're the spy) what the secret location is. Over several rounds, Laura managed to be the only spy to successfully deduce what the location was, the rest had agents finding the spy first.
Afterwards, that table switched to playing the drawing party game Telestrations. It must have been good, as even the snippets the other table overheard were funny. Everyone was having so much fun they decided to abandon the scoring system and just have a laugh - good decision.
Alongside all of this, a third table had Lords of Waterdeep being played by Paul J, Paul C, Nathan and James H - next time I'll break out the expansion for some extra locations and mechanics. It's a fun game of resource management in the D&D universe that plays with secret objectives, intrigue, variable turn order and a raft of end game points to have each player vying to be the Lord of Waterdeep. It was touch and go between Paul C and Matt right up to the final points counting, but Matt emerged victorious this time. After that there was just enough time for a couple of rounds of Trans Europa, a quick fire train route game - I’ve forgotten who the victors were, other than white in the first game and green in the second.
There's loads more games still to have a go at, so I look forward to seeing you in February
Also, please note that NGG have booked the Nook for International Tabletop Day, so feel free to put that in your diaries now - Saturday April 30th, from 11am at the cafe.
We had 11 regular gamers come to play this month, so managed to get through a good range of games once again.
Steve and James dove into the Star Wars universe with X-Wing Miniatures and had a great time dogfighting in virtual space, James being the victor in this fight between two nippy Tie Fighters and a more powerful, but lone X-Wing. Sounds like this was a really good game and allayed fears that the base set wouldn't be interesting enough on its own. There are many more sets that can be purchased to increase the scale and variety of the battles and while they aren't cheap, they seem worth every penny if you enjoy the theme. The product is very high quality and obviously fun to play with (or just look at)!
Another table started with Labyrinth, treasure collecting in a moving maze - Laura managed to weave her way round the dungeon to gain more loot than Kieran, Dave & Val. On a side note, my daughter Niamh received Junior Labyrinth for Christmas and loves it - same concept, smaller map, so a recommendation there for any young ones you know who enjoy board games.
When James W and Steve concluded their time in space, they joined the Labyrinth table for a few rounds of Spyfall, a relatively new game of bluffing and deduction. Everyone receives a card with a secret location, except the spy (who gets a card saying they're a spy). Players ask questions to try to find out either who the spy is or (if you're the spy) what the secret location is. Over several rounds, Laura managed to be the only spy to successfully deduce what the location was, the rest had agents finding the spy first.
Afterwards, that table switched to playing the drawing party game Telestrations. It must have been good, as even the snippets the other table overheard were funny. Everyone was having so much fun they decided to abandon the scoring system and just have a laugh - good decision.
Alongside all of this, a third table had Lords of Waterdeep being played by Paul J, Paul C, Nathan and James H - next time I'll break out the expansion for some extra locations and mechanics. It's a fun game of resource management in the D&D universe that plays with secret objectives, intrigue, variable turn order and a raft of end game points to have each player vying to be the Lord of Waterdeep. It was touch and go between Paul C and Matt right up to the final points counting, but Matt emerged victorious this time. After that there was just enough time for a couple of rounds of Trans Europa, a quick fire train route game - I’ve forgotten who the victors were, other than white in the first game and green in the second.
There's loads more games still to have a go at, so I look forward to seeing you in February
Also, please note that NGG have booked the Nook for International Tabletop Day, so feel free to put that in your diaries now - Saturday April 30th, from 11am at the cafe.