First Thoughts: 40k Conquest by Fantasy Flight Games

Greetings one again InterWebs. I had the chance yesterday to play the brand new 40k Conquest 'Living Card Game' from Fantasy Flight Games and I thought I would share my initial thoughts.

The game is a 2 player 'deck building' type of game which is not something I usually get into, however this was quite easy and fun to play. Everything you need is included in the box so you don't have to go out and buy booster packs looking for that 'rare' card.

The Game includes cards for the following races: Space Marines, Imperial Guard (Astra Millitum or something like that), Chaos, Eldar, Dark Eldar, Tau, and Orks. With these cards you build your deck and set forth to conquer the planetary system that is the goal of the game. Here are some various in game photos showing just some of the cards in play:

Chaos (my first attempt at the game):

 Chaos Warlord and Chaos Fanatics attacking a planet:

 Chaos troops backed up by a Black Legion Heldrake (freaking nasty card):

I lost the first game by having my Warlord killed out from under me during a planetary assault. This is one of the ways to win/lose the game. The time taken to play this game in minimal so my friend Joel and I decided to try another game with different races involved. So I set out to give the Orks a try:

 Discard pile, snotling tokens, and captured planets:

 This picture shows a rather tense time of the game as Joel and his Tau forces tried to stop the 'green tide' of the Orks but it was not meant to be. This game actually took less time than the first and we were done with this game in about 1/2 hour.

I enjoyed this game and thought it was something that could be played quickly with minimal setup and rues instruction needed. I liked the fact that everything you needed to play was in the box. I loved the artwork on the cards; it was nice to see some new artwork for 40k.

I can see Fantasy Flight Games having an easy time supporting this game with future supplements and expansions. The only thing I could complain about is the lack of planets included in the base game, you need to use 7 of the included 10 planets per game and that means you will be seeing the same planets quite often in your games.

All in all I had a lot of fun playing this and would recommend it to fans of 40k. It is an easy game to take with you and doesn't really need a large space to play, perfect for the travelling 40k player.

Thanks for stopping by and taking a look. Take care!

Origins 2013---A Recap of my Miniature Experiences

Greetings once again InterWebs!!!! Well I am finally back from Columbus, Ohio and the Origins Game Fair where I met up with a bunch of friends who happen to be scattered all over the States. Good times was had by all and I even got to help a good friend propose to his now-fiance! I did manage to snap some pictures while I was there:

First off, especially for Mordian 7th who I know is eagerly awaiting the arrival of OGRE!

The above picture (taken with my phone) is of the special charity game of Ogre with Steve Jackson himself.

 That box is huge!

For me Origins is spent wandering around the various halls and playing roleplaying games with friends. Here are a few random tables that caught my eye during my wanders:

A version of X-Wing played with Star Trek ships instead and played on the floor!

 Note the chair in the picture below, it should give you a sense of scale:

I am not sure what game this was for but it was very cool looking!

 Look at all those rope ladders!

There was a huge game of X-Wing being played across several large tables. The game looked to be the Rebel assault into the Second Death Star. There were a ton of people around this game but I tried to sneak some pictures.

 

 
 There was a neat looking game of BattleTech being played as well:

There was a massive Flames of War landing assault game that needed 4 very long tables to play it all out. It was quite impressive!

The very popular BattleTech Virtual Reality Pods! I so want to try these some day with a group of friends!

For my better-half! A huge Settlers of Catan game played on the floor:

An awesome looking table full of gorgeous 15mm American Civil War miniatures and terrain.

That was a look at the miniature side of Origins 2013. I will talk about my roleplaying experiences and my purchases/loot in the next post. Thanks for stopping by and taking a look through all these pictures. Take care!

Relic! by Fantasy Flight Games

Greetings once again InterWebs!!!! It has been a wonderful Spring here in Colorado which means a fair amount of time outside and only a little time in the hobby room. However the other day a group of friends all got together to try out the new Warhammer 40k-themed boardgame from Fantasy Flight Games called Relic. This is another fine example of Fantasy Flight Games going all out in production values with this game, the game board is thick, well printed, and huge!

The host (and owner) of the game was Mordian 7th and he surprised us with several painted character busts which are used as the character tokens in the game. I thought this was a very nice touch!


Here is crew getting ready for the fun!

I played the Rogue Trader:

Painted Busts in action:

Of course game time means a few drinks are in order. Imported no less....

Thanks for stopping by and taking a look. Take care

May the 4th be with you-----X Wing first impressions

Greetings once again InterWebs!!!! It is May the 4th and several of my friends stopped by to try out the newish game from Fantasy Flight Games called X-Wing, we decided to give this game a try in celebration of May the 4th being the unofficial 'Star Wars Day'. X-Wing is a game of starfighter dog-fighting/ship-to-ship combat which we found really enjoyable.

The first thing to do was assemble the ship models. The models come prepainted and only require attaching to their bases. The whole process did not take long at all and was kind of fun:

The group of friends (including the tall Mordian 7th) getting ready to start the fun:

Some game play pictures (note that Star Wars: A New Hope was playing!):

The super nimble X-Wing rolling 3 'evasion' results to avoid the Imperial firepower:

Movement and turns are measured with special templates:

Mid-space collision!

After getting a few basic games in to learn the rules we all decided to try a team battle which would use the awesome looking YT-1300 model and asteroids!

The YT-1300 model is in scale with the rest of the ships making it look big and impressive!

All in all it was a great time and everyone agreed that X-Wing was a game we were looking forward to playing again soon! The game seems simple and fun but has a ton of tactical possibilities that will keep the game from getting stale/old. The best part of X-Wing was the games went quick (about 20-40 minutes) allowing the group of us to get several games in during the course of a few hours. I will be looking at making some 3D asteroids and other 'space debris' as well as looking into getting some nice outer space/nebula/Death Star maps to play on which should really look awesome! Thanks again for stopping by and taking a look! Take care and May The Force Be With You Always!