I’m started to get used to games playing out in completely unexpected ways. Werewolf is usually a game of Hang a village, wolves kill someone, hang a village, wolves kill someone, hang a wolf if you’re lucky….
Not so the current game of werewolf. 21 souls wander around in their best Tescos PJs at all hours of the night unperturbed by the possibility of being eaten alive by wolves. any why you may ask?
Well for the first time in the history of any games of this I’ve ever played, the wolves are being wiped out systematically.
First night : Wolves don’t succeed in eating anyone
Second Day : a Wolf is hung
Second Night : Wolves don’t succeed in eating anyone
Third Day : a Wolf is hung
Third Night : A wolf is eaten….
What the absolute heck is going on here? Don’t ask me I’m not a wolf
I don’t think anyone expected to be playing Ladies and Gentlemen (well obviously the owner). It’s certainly different. Bought for a mere bagatelle at the Knavecon bring and buy it reared it’s Victorian head on Thursday last.
The game sees up to eight players (we had seven) working in groups to become the most talked about Gentleman or Lady in polite society come the big ball.
Teams consist of well to do gentlemen and their ladies and well me. I was the odd one out so my role in the game was …. well let me put it this way, I’d stand out at a wake…
Best T-Shirt of the night was Better Call Saul
Players score points by having the best dressed wife at the end of the game and can be boosted or undone by the look of the courtesan who is every gentleman’s friend. This is achieved by buying the best possible outfit for the aforementioned ladies
Outfits consit of hats, dresses, accesseries and an entourage of servants.
Each of the men folk each round dabble in the stock market which sees them picking resources from a collective pile to complete a set and earn money.
The ladies each of which run a shop stick a pile of cards face down with one face up showing various dresses, bags, hats etc and their cost. Ladies then secretly decide which shop to visit and fight it out black friday style for the choicest of items handing them to their male counterparts to either buy or reject. (pouting is mandartory). The courtesan can ask any of the men to buy goods for her but the men in doing so have to keep their wives sweet by buying them something of similar value.
The game ends after a number of rounds with the best dressed couple winning and the least generous types falling to the wayside.
It’s an Interesting game. Possibly not the best fit for a group of seven lads with schoolboy humour sensibilities
It’s a game that requires a few goes before a strategy would emerge and while I can’t say it was stupendous fun I reckon a few plays would make for quite the fight. I also think it would play better with a few actual women in the mix (possibly a real couristean as well)
I had not heard of this game until last Thur and it’s possible we may never play it again but I do feel strongly that I don’t feel strongly about it one way or the other. Once again it’s going to need more play before I can decide if I like it or not.
Despite the best efforts of Austria and England, Russia and Turkey are still in the game acting as a nasty speed bump allowing Italy to do his dastardly work while England is distracted
The Monkey trap that is St Petersburg is still vexing Austria and England allowing Russia to continue to gad about like John Constantine with a deal with the devil.
Having incorrectly predicted whom would win I remain dear reader unable to predict what could happen next….
Mark your calenders. The 30th of October will see the return of the most frustrating, nail biting, hair pulling, curse like a trooper, stupendous two player game of all time to the electronic world. Blood Bowl 2
Bloodbowl one is still a crackin game (if you can forgive the sometimes frustrating control system) but the new version is shaping up to be something special.
By November there will be a league, OH YES there will be a league and I’ll see you all on the pitch, hopefully face down
Are you a Star Realms fan? Are you, your granny or someone you once heard of Irish? Then get over to Star Realms Ireland on Facebook and register your Player Name so we can all get into a big glorious scrap.
Knavecon is a wholesome family event, the minds of the players are pure and unsullied like a captured hobbit. As you can imagine the introduction of not one but all five expansions for cards against humanity was a shock, that said it doesn’t really explain the five hour marathon they played at the event with ALL the cards. Seemingly so certain cards from the thousand or so on offer would reappear. That’s dedication. that’s not a great description but it will suffice.
CAH is a fun game with the right group (e.g. not your mother in law). The problem with it is a dozen plays in you’ve seen all it has to offer and you tire of the combinations. The expansions each of which drop a level of depravity add fresh … vigour to the proceedings. A lot of the cards are very good, some are quite dark but all of them injected (no pun intended) with the same wit that pervades the base set (base being a great description).
If you’re a CAH fan I would whole heartily (that sounded rude too) recommend the expansion. You may need to shower after but you did want an add on and the developers gave you one….
I setup a Facebook page for players looking for other Irish players to take on in Star Realms. (The usual you don’t have to be Irish to be Irish rules apply)
If you’re a player have a look and add your username to the roster
I realised Sunday morning after the dust had settled on Knavecon V and the ideas for Knavecon VI were jumping up and down in my head like Billie Barry Kids, I had a problem….
I had bought a lot of games at Knavecon (all of them at cracking prices admittedly, plug plug plug), gamers from my regular group had bought games too…. Had this slaked my thirst for buying new games?…
Pah! of course not, I wanted more. More, capital letters single spacing
M O R E !
Is that a bad thing? weeelllll.. bad is a mailable term I find. To use the clean version of an expression I once heard, “It’s not an addiction unless you’re skinny” so on that basis myself and most of the gamers I know are far from Addicts!
Our Custom Love Letter for Knavecon V was a huge success. All Ten copies of it were prebooked and sold. Featuring pictures of several of the gamers at the con in the requisite roles. If you saw it you’ll agree it’s a work of art, If there’s an interest we could do a second short print run. Let me know….
Victor Gannon Games 