War on Terror Blog
Wednesday 30th March 2005
Game Report: Andy T, Andy S, Helen and Alex
Nice little mid-week four player game and it's peaceful for a good four rounds or so. Then space starts getting tight and Alex tries to takes the whole of the Americas by nuking Andy S in Peru. Andy T follows this up a turn or so later with nukes in Africa and Europe and Andy S is forced to try and rebuild his crippled Empire from his base in Argentina, a little peeved at being nuked three times in quick succession.
Helen doesn't make one aggressive move even though Andy T keeps having a little dig at her Empire. Things start to hot up and Andy T is looking quite tasty with six or so cities. Andy S points this fact out and some ganging up and one turn later sees him knocked back down to size.
Helen's looking promising, although a little cramped in Europe and North Asia. Then, two and quarter hours into the game Alex sells three cities to Helen and we have a winner... The boys are a little startled by this move and it's not even clear if it's 'legal'. Either way the game wraps up.
- posted by TerrorBull Games on 30 March 2005 - 0 comments
Wednesday 23rd March 2005
Game Report: Andy T, Tom M-J, Chris and Dave (Tom Friends)
A late start for a midweek game but we crack on regardless.
All looks fairly even and peaceful for the first few rounds. Then the odd terrorist starts cropping up and Chris seems to drop a nuke without thinking of quite how dangerous those things are.
Andy T starts to look quite tasty with four or so cities and a nice spread over Asia. For some reason no secret messages are written and the fight kicks off for real. A few decisive battles later and Andy T turns Terrorist causing chaos and an almost mutiny on quite how 'unfair' the game is.
The pace hots up again as Chris becomes Evil. The terrorists are looking good and fatigue starts to set in amongst the bullied Empires. Mark gets upset when a 300 million pay off to the terrorists to leave him alone is ignored and they launch a full assault on his Empire. Again threats of mutiny... Despite this Mark is looking good with eight cities at one point. But before long he's Empire is brought to it's knees.
The Terrorists bankrupt Chris into joining there cause and then the game descends into a 3.30am chaos... In the end we call it draw.
- posted by TerrorBull Games on 23 March 2005 - 0 comments
Sunday 20th March 2005
Game Report: Andy T, Tom M-J & Dave M-J
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A nice little Sunday afternoon game... The three Empires start a respectful distance from each other. Tom tries to the break the no attacking in the first round rule and receives a harsh warning message from Andy (the intended target).
Dave drops quite an early nuke on the States which kicks off a long running battle between the two brothers. Andy turns evil and hangs back, his Empire slowly spreading from Indonesia to Greenland, extorting money from the other Empires with a vicious hand of Terrorist cards.
Tom invades Dave's Africa and builds a strong outpost, Dave backs out but takes Australia and moves into Nowhere. Tom keeps pushing through Africa toward the Middle East. Andy joins in the fight for real and hits Tom hard with terrorists in the Americas. Dave drops another nuke and Andy losses the upper hand of being evil.
When Andy gets close to a ten cities victory, the others work together for the first time in the game. Andy's down to four cities and almost bankrupt because of those damn environmentalists.
Everyone calms down a notch and consolidates their positions, Tom has now lost the Americas completely but managed to take most of Asia by pushing through the Middle East. The brothers concentrate on each other again: petty border skirmishes kick off. This gives Andy enough breathing space (and some very lucky oil rolls) to build his Empire back up again, moving in some nice space in Africa after he nuked it. Keeping his head down and trying very hard to not look like he was about to win Andy T sneaks in with a ten cities victory... His first! Five and a half hour game... Nice.
- posted by TerrorBull Games on 20 March 2005 - 0 comments
Saturday 12th March 2005
Game Report: Andy T, Big Dave, Nick G, Andrew, Andre and Lady (sorry!)
Six player game and a trip to London, War on Terror is on the move...
A nine o'clock kick off and everyone's in high spirits. Lady joins us after the first turn and the board is already looking cramped. Andrew drops a nuke in his second turn and sets the tone for the evening.
Dave and Andy T make a pact and decide to leave Greenland as a buffer zone between them. Dave is looking good, hitting a massive seam of oil in the North Americas and Canada (Thunder Bay).
Then things kick off in the Middle East between Nick and Andy T. Andre keeps a low profile but builds steadily. Andrew lucks out with South America as it's a barren place, strikes out for Africa which doesn't go down well. Within four or so turns he turns Terrorist. Lady joins him moments after.
A fierce battle continues, Greenland is no longer a peaceful place, and at one point Dave's Empire is brought to its knees. Nick keeps tension high with war cries on every dice roll. Outright cheating and theft on the Terrorist's part ensues; the bank has to be re-located. Nick's bank is 'The bank that likes to round up'.
Madness takes the game. At a couple of points it's looking close to victory for the various Empires, everyone has a shot. Twice we could have World Peace; twice human nature carries on the fight. 3am... Six hours into the game it descends into Chaos as Andrew sprinkles the board with ALL of the terrorists that he bought earlier in the game. All remaining Empires decide to let anarchy go for it. Simultaneous suicide.
- posted by TerrorBull Games on 12 March 2005 - 0 comments
Saturday 5th March 2005
Game Report: Andy T, Andy S, Mark & New Orleans Dave
Four player game and an afternoon kick-off! Our first 3pm start... And boy, is it a corker...
Mark decides straight away that anarchy is the only way forward and turns his initial two villages terrorist at the start of his first turn. In confusion, this causes Andy S drops a nuke on Dave which cripples his empire and within a turn he joins the terrorists as a failed state.
Andy T tries his best to fund the terrorist player and it buys him a turn. Together, Dave and Mark turn their terrorist attention on Andy S and unleash seven shades of shit. The board is a radioactive mess before even the first crops are in.
Andy T backs out of the deal with the terrorists as soon as he can and sides with World Peace. The Andys form a truce and concentrate on the terrorists. After their initial burst of terrorist energy, they get a shitty run of cards. Mark turns his initial two villages terrorist at the start of his first turn. They've been broken. Another few turns mopping up the stragglers and after two and quarter hours the Andys are in a position to declare World Peace. The terrorists are working on us, trying to turn Andy S to their cause. Andy T spots a challenge and backs out of the deal. Possibly not a wise decision as Andy S has two nukes. BOOM! CRACK! Andy T's Empire is looking pretty ropey, Andy S turns and the terrorists get a second wind with the sudden influx of cash.
Andy T fights on figuring that the 1.5 billion in his hand will serve him well. An hour later he surveys his empire, a few towns, a handful of villages.... fifty thousand in his hand. Then a good run of terrorist cards and several hostage situations... The terrorists bring the final Empire to its knees... Bankruptcy! Terrorist win: three and half hours in total.
- posted by TerrorBull Games on 5 March 2005 - 0 comments
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