Easter Weekend Board Gaming

     Since this Spring has started, I have not played as many games as normal. Really, it has been busy. With quite a few commission projects, I have been limited in the amount of space to do things. However, that does not leave the realm of board games out of reach. This last weekend had us playing the kitchen with our tabletop miniature/board games. Most notable was the first time used of Kalissa and I's Rising Sun copy. You may have seen the first game we played previously. We liked the game so much that we decided to get a copy of our own. And we got it fairly cheap considering that the reason for the person letting it go for such a cost was only doing this, because his gaming group had another copy. This was the most interesting reason I had ever heard. I guess no one ever moves or dies in that gaming group. Either way, it is a gain in our favor.
    We played a three player game on Friday with our trusty friend, William. In the end, I think he did not like the game too much. I think the phase used was that is was "too back-stabbing" for his taste. I think the game would have worked a little better with more players. However, I did manage to win despite loosing an awful large amount of units. It happens!
   

   The next day for Saturday, our friends, Hugh and Bill came out to play! Sounds like they were some puppies wanting to play with a ball! Maybe, so! Kalissa and I were not sure whether anyone would come over for the Easter weekend. Bill, had been missing in action for quite a while. My wife was not sure if she was going to recognize him after so long of an absence. Either case, Hugh was nice enough to bring over his new copy of Zombicide: Orc Horde. Yet another expansion, this one has Orc Zombies that are harder to kill than the human counter parts. However, it can be used in combination with the Zombicide: Black Plague. For a cooperative game, it does peak my interest. I am not too much into zombies, but I believe it is the various shows that mess it up by being about human drama. I like the goals and kill zombies effort in the game. It can diffidently be used for future convention ideas. Either way, despite doing fairly well, it was just not good enough. We ended up failing the mission. Either way, the weekend was great times. Here were some photos. 

Never Ending Zombies: Zombicide: Black Death

    I am not much for playing board games to often, especially cooperative board games. Something about not attacking another player in a game seems a bit off. Plus, I tend to be the person who haphazardly walks into a room that dooms the rest of the players. The feeling of "We lost the game, and it is your fault!" can make the game unpleasant in the end. However, after playing the game Zombicide: Black Death, I can see cooperative gaming as fun. I think that it has to do with the set up. In the game, your characters can gain experience and gain abilities as you kill zombies and/or pick up objectives. You can also find weapons that you can use or food that can give you a point of experience. This makes this cooperative game a lot easier to deal with in terms of accomplishment. The past cooperative games I played seemed to have a "Mission Impossible" stance. It would take a miracle to even think about winning. In Zombicide, it is possible to win. Between my wife, my friend, Hugh, and myself, we actually won this game in the mission we played. It just makes me wonder why Zombie games for wargaming do not have this type of flow. Who knows. Here are the pictures from our coffee table game of Zombicide. Enjoy!

My two characters.

My wife's two characters.

The mission board.

The bells were the noise made breaking the door.

Zombies appearing at spawning points.

The "X"s were objectives.

Even our cat, Izzy was into to this. 

Or she just liked the boxes!

Lots of zombies.

Never ending zombies!