Hope for the Grim Darkness of the Far Future

There have been some great announcements out of Games Workshop recently and I have been trying to follow it more than I have in the last few years because of that.  Could it be enough to get me playing Games Workshop games again? Is there hope in the grim darkness of the far future? or only war?

Unboxing Art of War Studios Tokens for Malifaux

After deciding to start playing Malifaux I also decided to pick up some tokens to use playing the game.

Malifaux use a lot of effects that need to be kept track of in the game and their are markers than need to be placed on the board.  You can use spare bases or poker chips for markers and keep track of effects with paper or on your phone, but I decided to pick up some markers to use in game.

Blood Rage

If you are interested in board games you have almost definitely heard of Blood Rage from Cool Mini or Not.  It was one of the hottest games of the last few years and has probably been reviewed 100s of times online, but I thought I'd get in and do one as well.

Blood Rage is a game about the Ragnarok and vikings fighting to earn their place in Valhalla.  It combines a number of different game mechanics and is a great mix of game styles.  It also allows players to use a number of different strategies and still compete.

The End of the World: Zombie Apocalypse "Banged Up"

We played another game The End of the World: Zombie Apocalypse.  Again I am writing this up from memory so I might have made a few mistakes, it was also influenced by the guys over at the INVICTUS Stream YouTube channel where I got the idea for the scenario from (seriously you should look them up at check out their Call of Cthulhu game).

For this scenario our players (Chris, Sam, Boris and Martin) have gone to do an escape room at a disused prison. This was the 1st time Chris, Sam and Boris had every played a RPG game.  I used the "Under the Skin" scenario from the rulebook.