What Board Game Are You Currently Playing?

[davidlhsl]

Played my first day of a 3-day short campaign in Hornet Leader: Carrier Air Operations

I chose to attack both a primary and secondary target. This is from the primary target I selected, which is a Minor Airfield.

Spoiler Alert!

I spent several of my Special Operations Points (SOP) to load the Special Weapons onto my aircraft, and my run over the target was able to take out the target and suppress any attacks from the sites and bandit. I did manage to take down the bandit and didn't have many other bandits appear. Overall, the mission went really well.

The attack on the secondary target, a AAA Site, was less successful. I was only able to send 3 aircraft (not the ones sent to strike the primary target), and the flight leader I had equipped with most of the bombs to deliver onto the target was shot down. That prevented me from destroying the target.

So my primary target netted me 2 victory points, the loss of one of my pilots cost me a victory point, and an event card allowed me to spend 2 of my SOP to score 1 victory point. So I'm at 2 VP, one of my pilots is shaken with 7 stress points, and my other pilots are ok with 2 stress points.

Two more days to go!

Since I'm just starting to learn the game, it's taking me some time to play. This game is primarily spent planning your missions and deciding which aircraft to take and how you'll arm them. The part of the game where you actually resolve the mission is quite tense, as things can turn on a dime.

I had mentioned the solitaire game B-17: Queen of the Skies earlier. Unlike that game, where you simply step through a set procedure to resolve each mission with little decision making, this game requires you to study your target area carefully, plan how you'll approach the target, and plan for possible contingencies that could arise. Feel free to take bets on whether this or Mage Knight will be the first to give me a nervous breakdown.

[Onacara]

We have been playing Smash Up! for the past couple of days and having a blast playing it.



If you are going to GenCon you need to try it out..

[Hahma]

Originally Posted by davidlhsl

Played my first day of a 3-day short campaign in Hornet Leader: Carrier Air Operations

I chose to attack both a primary and secondary target. This is from the primary target I selected, which is a Minor Airfield.

Spoiler Alert!

I spent several of my Special Operations Points (SOP) to load the Special Weapons onto my aircraft, and my run over the target was able to take out the target and suppress any attacks from the sites and bandit. I did manage to take down the bandit and didn't have many other bandits appear. Overall, the mission went really well.

The attack on the secondary target, a AAA Site, was less successful. I was only able to send 3 aircraft (not the ones sent to strike the primary target), and the flight leader I had equipped with most of the bombs to deliver onto the target was shot down. That prevented me from destroying the target.

So my primary target netted me 2 victory points, the loss of one of my pilots cost me a victory point, and an event card allowed me to spend 2 of my SOP to score 1 victory point. So I'm at 2 VP, one of my pilots is shaken with 7 stress points, and my other pilots are ok with 2 stress points.

Two more days to go!

Since I'm just starting to learn the game, it's taking me some time to play. This game is primarily spent planning your missions and deciding which aircraft to take and how you'll arm them. The part of the game where you actually resolve the mission is quite tense, as things can turn on a dime.

I had mentioned the solitaire game B-17: Queen of the Skies earlier. Unlike that game, where you simply step through a set procedure to resolve each mission with little decision making, this game requires you to study your target area carefully, plan how you'll approach the target, and plan for possible contingencies that could arise. Feel free to take bets on whether this or Mage Knight will be the first to give me a nervous breakdown.

I love the telltale David photos with the arrows and text, I've seen those before

Looks like an interesting game, though it seems like a brain burner if it's going to give you a nervous breakdown I've heard MK is pretty intense also, so you must just like to punish yourself David

Originally Posted by Onacara

We have been playing Smash Up! for the past couple of days and having a blast playing it.



If you are going to GenCon you need to try it out..

I've been eying this one Ona. It looks like fun and I might have to check it out at GenCon. I'm taking my nephew for our first time on an all day Saturday visit to the Con, so I'll try to check it out.

I ordered Tooth & Nail, so I hope it's not too similar.

[Scapemage]

Well, I finally jumped the gun and bought Settlers of Catan last week, and I couldn't be more pleased.

July Games

Sequence x6
The Big Bang Theory Party Game x4
Munchkin x4
Thunderstone: Advance
Pandemic x2
Summoner Wars iOS ~x30
Zombie Dice x3
Last Night On Earth x3
Lords of Waterdeep x2
Flash Point: Fire Rescue
Munchkin Bites! x3
Hey, That's My Fish! x2
Family Business x2
Seven Card Samurai x7
Summoner Wars x18
Dicecapades!
Lord of the Rings LCG
Sorry! Sliders
Forbidden Island
Topps Attax
Wiz-War
Clue! x2
Wheel of Fortune
The Logo Game x2
Apples to Apples x2
Settlers of Catan x5
Summoner Wars Free Build x2
Who Wants to be a Millionaire
Scrabble
I've Got It!

That's a total of 111 games last month! Yikes!

[IAmBatman]

Nice summer, Scapey! I didn't play any games today, but I did put in a big order online, so more gamey goodness coming my way soon.

I got:

Summoner's Wars: the elves/orcs starter (never played SW yet)
Dominion: Seaside expansion
Race for the Galaxy: Brink of War expansion
Sentinels of the Multiverse
Fortune and Glory: The Cliffhanger Game
7 Wonders
Survive: Escape from Atlantis
Flash Point: Fire Rescue

Should lead to some good gaming, I hope!

[Scapemage]

Originally Posted by IAmBatman

Nice summer, Scapey! I didn't play any games today, but I did put in a big order online, so more gamey goodness coming my way soon.

I got:

Summoner's Wars: the elves/orcs starter (never played SW yet)
Dominion: Seaside expansion
Race for the Galaxy: Brink of War expansion
Sentinels of the Multiverse
Fortune and Glory: The Cliffhanger Game
7 Wonders
Survive: Escape from Atlantis
Flash Point: Fire Rescue

Should lead to some good gaming, I hope!

Looks like you have some fun coming your way! I've been meaning to catch up on Summoner Wars for a while now.

[Onacara]

Today in between mowing the lawn and getting stung by yellow jackets (and then destroying the 5 underground yellow jacket nest) we played ..

Flashpoint Fire Rescue Dylan was standing in the doorway with the dog in his hand (the 7th rescue) I was standing just outside the door to grab the dog from him and step out to a victory with my extra actions...and KABOOM!!! the roof caved in. Man I love this game!!!

Lords of Waterdeep This was the closest game we had so far...115 for me...109 for Dylan and 100 for Anthony Jr..I leapfrogged Dylan at the end by having two more Lords quests complete than him.

Smash Upx3 Still undefeated after playing 10 of the possible combination decks. This game is so much fun.

[Hahma]

Originally Posted by IAmBatman

Nice summer, Scapey! I didn't play any games today, but I did put in a big order online, so more gamey goodness coming my way soon.

I got:

Summoner's Wars: the elves/orcs starter (never played SW yet)
Dominion: Seaside expansion
Race for the Galaxy: Brink of War expansion
Sentinels of the Multiverse
Fortune and Glory: The Cliffhanger Game
7 Wonders
Survive: Escape from Atlantis
Flash Point: Fire Rescue

Should lead to some good gaming, I hope!

Wow! you went all in eh Bats Good stuff there.

Had a 10+ hour game day today and played:

Tsuro
Galaxy Trucker
Space Beans
D-Day Dice
Eminent Domain
Eaten By Zombies
Railways of England and Wales.

[IAmBatman]

Yeah, I'm working a few extra classes this summer, so we decided we could afford to spoil ourselves a bit. I went to CCG Armory after seeing that their prices on the stuff I wanted averaged between $3 and $12 lower than the lowest I'd seen at any other place I'd looked, but I wanted to make sure I spent enough to hit free shipping (which I did ).

But, yeah, my sweetie gave me permission to spend a month or two ahead on my fun money, knowing we have the cash flow to take care of it, but after this splurge I'm pretty much done buying fun stuff until October. Totally worth it, though!

[Hahma]

Well you should have enough to keep you busy for a while anyway

[IAmBatman]

That's the plan! Next splurge will hopefully be on Heroclix or C3G card printing.

[Jim]

Originally Posted by IAmBatman

I went to CCG Armory

Red flag!!! There are tons of horror stories about them on BGG, Mostly people ordering something that they said was in stock, then finding out it was not in stock (usually when they received their order without some things) and then weeks and/or months of not being able to get refunds for the out-of-stock items. Hoping for the best here!