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Friday 25th February 2005
Game Report: Andy T, Andy S, Mary & Hamish
4 player game. Interesting start as it looks like Andy T's got the Americas to himself whilst the other three empires are looking a little cramped in Northern Europe and Asia.
Andy S makes a run for it though and in a couple of turns has raced through Africa, Australia and colonised the Middle of Nowhere. Mary tries to make an escape through Iceland and gets a toe hold in Northern America, which Andy T regards as an aggressive act and there's some minor clashes between the two Empires.
Hamish seems to be happy with a decent sized chunk of Asia. The 'balaclava of evil' gets passed around pretty quick, both the Andies have a short spell of being Evil and then Mary takes the evil reigns for quite some time. Despite (or possibly because of) this Mary never really gets beyond a couple of towns, her Empire being a testing ground for everyone's weapons.
Andy T spots an opportunity, nukes Nowhere and takes it from Andy S, knocking out a few other cities with terrorists at the same time. Andy S doesn't take this too well and fires off a nuke in response, regaining Nowhere a turn later.
Mary starts talking about turning terrorist but after a couple of strikes against Hamish he turns terrorist minutes before her. The two remaining Empires make some kind of truce while they adjust to the dynamics of Mary and Hamish unleashing terrorist hell against both of their Empires.
A few turns in and Andy T stabs Andy S in the back with another nuke and some funding of the terrorist cause. But Andy T is stabbed in the back by the terrorists a turn later when they switch their attention back to his growing Empire.
Andy S caves in and joins the terrorists, with a large wad of cash to fund the black tide. Andy T is crippled within minutes, from five cities down to one... down to several towns... down to eight or so villages. Cash drying up as the oil runs out and the globe is a radioactive mess. Fighting off hijacks and kidnaps he barely scraps through a couple of turns before the terrorists bankrupt him with yet another kidnapping.
A five hour game and a terrorist victory. Terrorist players need a little more tactical incentive, but it's getting oh-so-close...
- posted by TerrorBull Games on 25 February 2005 - 0 comments
Tuesday 22nd February 2005
Game Report: Andy T, Andy S & Tom M-J
3 player game. 8 o'clock kick off and we unleash the maddest game known to existence... Andy S's second turn and he drops a nuke on China, a peace loving Empire that had only just grown thumbs. BOOM! Tom M-J's three villages are wiped clean off the board and we've got a (slightly miffed) terrorist player from the start.
All hell breaks loose for a couple of hours, nukes, dirty bombs, a few suicide attacks and the globe looks shagged.Then it's all out carnage, every man for himself. Tom nearly bankrupts Andy S with a political kidnap, but Andy sends in the troops and pulls it off. Andy T fancies his chances for a couple of turns and then Tom's anger against Andy S seems to wane and he switches the focus of the dark forces. Suddenly Andy T's empire consists of three villages: Iceland, India and Japan are his... He almost joins Tom on the dark side but instead fights back to the soundtrack of the A-Team in his head.
All hell breaks loose for a couple of hours, nukes, dirty bombs, a few suicide attacks and the globe is looking shagged. At 1am we decide that the situation hasn't changed for a while and call it quits. The situation being that we're all going for each others throats so much that neither of us build up an empire of any decent size to really get cracking, everyone being skint from that first nuke onwards. And Tom is spreading the evil force between the two of us, keeping us both weak.
After some post game chat we decide to knock out an empire on a dice roll and play the end-end game for a bit. Andy S joins Tom on the dark side and we crack on, Andy T not fancying his chances with 10m shillings and a couple of towns... Three full turns later and again the terrorists are trying to bankrupt an Empire: a plane hijack. Andy T tries his luck by sending the troops in. They fuck up. It's a political disaster and his Empire is bankrupt... The terrorists win...
- posted by TerrorBull Games on 22 February 2005 - 0 comments
Friday 18th February 2005
Game Report: Andy T, Andy S & Chris
3 player game. Andy T steps up to the board and makes the first move, he's wearing the 'balaclava of evil' before the end of his turn and we get to test the all new 'evil' rules straight away...
A few turns into the game and the world is looking a little cramped, Andy S has the Americas, Chris grabs Asia and Australia, Andy T is wedged in between the two.
Some lucky oil prospecting and Andy T suddenly has five cities before anyone else has even built one. This makes him 'enemy number 1' and an hour later his empire is pretty much desroyed, a few villages scattered throughout Africa and an outpost in Asia.
Andy S and Chris both build strong empires and apart from the odd terrorist strike they leave each other alone. There's even talk of world peace...
Andy T tries his best to thwart this by turning terrorist and unleashes the full power of the all new terrorists cards. However, Andy S or Chris could take the game at any moment. Chris is in a winning position at one point, if he hadn't blown all his cash... Bingo! Four and a half hours into the game Andy S liberates the world... Nice.
- posted by TerrorBull Games on 18 February 2005 - 0 comments
Friday 4th February 2005
Game Report: Andy T, Rich, Sam & Joe
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4 player game. It starts nice and easy, Andy's maybe a little eager and gets one too many enemies early on. Joe hits a seam of oil through Africa and the Middle East, looking strong from the start. Sam takes an ethical decision and decides to never to fund terrorism. Rich stays out of the action and takes most of North America and a healthy chunk of Asia.
Joe turns Evil early in game and stays Evil for quite some time, he takes advantage of the situation, although complains of sweating and looks hilarious in the balaclava.
Andy cripples himself in his valiant effort to destroy Joe. Too late in the game Andy and Joe make peace when they realise Sam and Rich are both looking tasty.
Andy turns Terrorist, but again it's too late to make a difference. A couple of nukes are dropped and it could be anyone's (apart from Andy)... Bam! Although Evil had passed on to Rich, Joe sneaks in with another 10 cities victory for an empire.
The game comes in at just over three hours, with a 'fruit salad' break in the middle. Feels good. After the general euphoria of finishing two games in a row a slight melancholy sets in as memories of 'nine hours of nail biting tension' float by... But all feedback was good and it feels like we're getting close.
- posted by TerrorBull Games on 4 February 2005 - 0 comments
Monday 24th January 2005
Game Report: Andy T, Andy S, Craig S, Rachel, Vid & Zak
6 player game, 7.45 start... And some new sexy rules for the end game and other bits...
Andy S is hemmed in from the start after a vicious first move from Vid. He hangs on for another couple of turns, Vid tries to finish him off but the bugger clings on. However, in an interesting development, Vid has to leave early around 9.30 and hands all developments to Andy S, the lucky git.
We five fight on, Andy T looks tasty early in the game - too tasty though and after some nasty teaming up his empire is in tatters. Then it's open: anyone's game.
Andy S is looking good, Rachel takes most of Asia and gets a toe hold in the Americas. Then... round midnight, Rachel turns Evil for the second time in the game and combined with a lucky pick of Policy Cards... BOOM! A careful nuke in Africa and Rachel comes out the winner... WE HAVE A WINNER! Good game, good game...
- posted by TerrorBull Games on 24 January 2005 - 0 comments
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