The night before started with a "quick" game of Viticulture with Snake-eyes, Steedo, DK and myself - the game was meant to finish by 9pm so we could have an early night of bugger off down the pub. I went to the pub at about 8.30pm after 2 rounds and the others finished at 9.50pm ..... The picture shows the quality Toby breakfast on the Saturday and the insert the result of Viticulture! A massive win to Steedo ... But I threw the game.
So after a might feast (which kept us going until 8pm!) we arrived at Nerd-vana - sorry game fest at the NEC!
So with some excitement we headed in! First spot was the Game of Thrones version of Catan - which I was very tempted by .... We had a chat with one of the Catan team, who said it was a good twist on a classic as was the Empire of the Incas version .... But I stayed strong! We then head up the the bring and buy, only to be met by a massive queue - which was solidly massive throughout the day! So we moved on! DK and I made the first purchased of the day (DK - a Shadespire expansion and myself a set of card protectors for Risk-Europe (which fit perfectly!) cards).
We then had a look at the very nice and very expensive gaming tables at Geekson (bribed by free coffee) - Steedo looked like he was interested. Then we managed to split up. Snake-eyes and myself ending up at Gale Force 9 and getting a play through of Dr Who - Into the Time Vortex and a run through of Star Trek-Ascendency (of which Snake-eyes has an unplayed copy).
After this Steedo reappeared and we went on looking for more games.
We found Perditions Mouth Abyssal Rift - a euro dungeon crawl, with nice figures and an interesting activation mechanic (a wheel with spaces which you had to move into each turn) - Snake-eyes felt that this was too much of a puzzle game, in that the cooperative element of the game required the group to work out who needs to do what in what order. The game took longer than we would have liked - Snake-eyes and I died some that our party could escape and win.
We then split up again - Steedo and I then wondered off to get the 9 worlds expansion for the game he picked up last year and got caught up in play testing a couple of games. First up was a very quick game " Oh bother" - which was a colour and symbol points scoring game which I have say I really enjoyed (I reckon I could make the game from memory) but I would happily pay a tenner for a well produced version. Then we played "Role Quest" which was a lite intro to role playing - a sort of speaking charades, where you could made the other players sing and stand on one leg as they tried to role play their characteristic word for that round. It could be a good party game and reminded me of Codenames in someways. Both games were given positive feedback by Steedo and myself.
While we were play-testing Snake-eyes and DK were getting a play of Star Wars Armarda (a game Snake-eyes bought over a year ago and hasn't played yet .... Is there a theme here?). Anyway based on this game Snake-eyes purchased some more expansions - an Imperial Star Destroyer and the Millennium Falcon!
Steedo and I had a run through and played a couple of terms of Blood Red Skies by Warlord Games - which was pretty good - but there were number of WW2 fighter games on display at the show.
I did want a play through on Wotan Games War of the Nine Realms - but managed to miss all of the sessions, but in chatting with the head honcho found out that they have prototypes for miniatures for the game rather than card stands in the current edition - so waiting maybe of benefit in the long term.
Overall a bloody good day!
Morts
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