The 4 of us left very late Tuesday night, and 10 hours later, arrived in Indy. After wandering around most of the day and trying out Zombiecide (more on that in a second), we hit St. Elmo's steakhouse, a super-classy restaurant. But more about the gaming:
During free time, we played a lot of Zombiecide, Eclipse and Evil Baby Orphanage.
Zombiecide is CMoN's new Zombie game. We played the first scenario ~ 7 times and couldn't beat it; it's excruciatingly difficult. That said, the game itself has some excellent mechanics and is full of character. I'd recommend it if you like zombie games.
Eclipse is basically Twilight Imperium light: way less political mechanics, with a far more elegant activation/resource system. It's like they took TI and euro-gamed it. Like TI, it takes more planning and continued attention than I like to give board games, so I suck at it, but it's quite entertaining.
Evil Baby Orphanage is Wyrd's new card game. In it, you play a time-travelling nanny (Mary Poppins meets Dr. Who) who is trying to kidnap various evil babies to keep them from perpetrating crimes against humanity in the future. Basically, there are baby cards worth various amounts of points that you collect (portraying people like Baby Hitler, Baby Stalin, Baby Napoleon, etc.). The babies also have good and bad abilities that you have to manage via toys and and action cards. It's a fun, light screw-your-neighbor game.
In terms of actual events, I played in the MERCS tournament. I matched up against Waza with my FCC in the first round on the Missile Silo map (single-elimination). My opponent was a cool guy who was able to take maximum advantage of some really idiotic errors I made throughout the game. I was in it until the end despite all that, but couldn't seem to think clearly. Very much a missed opportunity; I'd wanted to practice that exact match-up on that map, but never got around to it. It probably would've helped :D
Anyways, the rest of the con was great. I ran demos of the new version of Confrontation, Wrath of Kings and Relic Knights for CMoN. All 3 are excellent, especially Wrath of Kings. I eagerly await the inevitable Kickstarter.
A friend and I did run a 6-player Gruntz event both Thursday and Friday morning. These were super successful and I'll post about them separately once he sends me the photos.
Here are a couple of photos (more to come as I find them):
Wrath of Kings: Teknes Ironward
Chill-causing Collodi Cosplay
Delicious Cincinnati-style Chili Dogs from Skyline.
Why are those chili dogs so hairy?
ReplyDeleteMark has a great picture of me doing a cheesethulu-cosplay. I'll try to get it from him.
ReplyDeleteUpcoming posts: Gencon loot rundown(!); MERCS tournament lament (start of a series of posts hopefully on MERCS, which is apparently the only thing I can think about lately).