AAR: Congo: Bungle In the Jungle

 
       This was a game of Congo that Kalissa and I played recently at a local game store called Hit Point Hobbies located in Aberdeen, NC. It is a 45 minute trek away from us, but we he recently attended a Bolt Action Tournament there. Kalissa was asked to advise so to speak. Either way, we got to meet a lot more historical gamers than normal, so it seemed logical to go out there again on a Thursday. I think Lord of the Rings was slightly burning out for my wife for the time being, she likes playing different games. A kind of spicing of games, if you will!
  Anyway, we needed to brush up on some Congo rules, because my lovely wife wants to run a Congo game at this year's Historicon. This was a simple game of explorers versus the forest tribe. If you have not played Congo, you should really look into it. It is a fun game. It is card driven and initiative based. And I came to a realization that my wife does not like the Terror card I like to play. I think I enjoy that card more than shooting!
   Even though, I won the game as the explorers, it was a hallow victory considering I lost about the same amount of people as the tribesmen. It will be interesting to see how her scenario pans out involve four factions. We still have to get one more for me to paint. I am just glad my Terror reduced the pigmyes from being more dangerous. However, that did not stop them from poison darting my leader! Here are the pictures of our game. Enjoy!

AAR:Congo: Kong Says: No!

     I decided to hate myself a little further in gaming by painting the Forrest Tribe for our Congo game. As I may have mentioned before, Kalissa did really well with this faction when she first played the rules at one of the Historicon conventions. So I kind of took my time on them after I figured out how they played. However, the time had come to experience this faction in their natural habitat with a scenario to capture Kong. I believe this is the second mission that is in the book. I did not really read it. For if I did, I would have really knew how much of an uphill battle this was going to be.
    I ran the White Man Expedition to capture or kill Kong, the spirit of the jungle. The forrest tribe were the defenders. I would come in to roll for fatigue from my march somewhere. Of course, I killed off one of my men just with this roll first thing! As the game played, I was not shooting very well, but Kalissa was. I thought that there was a chance she might move in for melee, since one group of my was reload their muskets. In the end, this happened to be true, but with Kong that I did not know had range of me. Yeah.....he killed the unit in one attack with no survivors. And thus, the downhill went. I was able to kill quite few tribesmen, but with no prevail to any fully dead units. Kong had 8 lives that I took down to 4. I had seven turns to do this, but only four rounds to shoot. Needless to say, I did not win. It was definitely an interesting game. Anyway, here are some more pictures. Enjoy!