Eldritch Horror

Eldritch Horror has been for some time one of my favourite games and possibility my favourite pure co-op game.  It is the successor to Arkham Horror but has been made more streamlined and given a globe hoping adventure theme instead of a single city like Arkham Horror had.  The game play is close but its global theme gives Eldritch Horror more of a Pulp adventure feel.  It is faster than Arkham Horror but still takes some time to play which means I don't get it on the table as much as I'd like.

Fantasy AGE - Arrival In Freeport

So we played a game of Fantasy AGE with me as the GM.  I had decided to write an starting adventure for the players, who were all new to the game, based on them arriving in Green Ronin's city of Freeport after a long journey to get there.  I planned to make the adventure fairly easy to help them get used to the rules.

"The Wolf Knight Rises" Flesh Tearers Vs Space Wolves & Imperial Knights 2000pts Scorched Earth

This was a game of firsts, my first game with the new Blood Angels Codex, my first game against an Imperial Knight, my first game against the Chapter Approved Space Wolves and my first game using a Chapter Approved mission.  Exciting times.

We decided to do a new mission from Chapter Approved so rolled for it and got Scorched Earth.  This is an interesting mission because you can score an objective at the end of every turn for 1 point or burn an objective in your opponents deployment zone for D3 points and remove it from the game.  It is interesting not only because you can remove objectives from the game but also that you score every turn not just at the end of the game.

We also rolled for deployment and got Spearhead Assault.  Seems I've played a lot of games using the short table edges for deployment instead of the long table edges recently.

Top 50 games - Jan 2018

Last year I did a list of my favourite games  using Pub Meeple's Board Game Ranking Engine.  I thought I would do the same thing again this year and see how the list has changed. 

Same as last year I have copied my played games from Board Game Geek I have also removed expansions but did take them into account when picking which game I'd rather play, if I've played an expansion it has been taken into consideration.  If games are similer enough (like different versions of Fluxx, Ticket to ride or Munchkin) I have included them all as one entry, but if they are the same base game but work differently (like One Night Ultimate Werewolf and One Night Ultimate Vampire) I have left them separate.  I have also cut it down to top 50 this year since I was otherwise the list would be a lot longer than last year.

"March of the Defilers" Flesh Tearers vs World Eaters 2000pts Secure and Control

Another game with my Flesh Tearers against the World Eaters.  We were playing Secure and Control, so we each had an objective in our deployment zone, and we were using the Spearhead Assault deployment.  This was played a few days before the Blood Angel's codex was released or Chapter Approved came out so I was using an Index force against a Chaos Codex force.