Chaos in the Old World, Smart Ass, Funglish, The Resistance, (Star Trek)
Gaming and parties, bros! Gaming and parties. I started my morning off with a five-player game of Chaos in the Old World, with the new Horned Rat expansion. I like the new content, the Horned Rat has an interesting playstyle, dropping tons of dudes on the map and trying to rack in the points, but can’t actually force the huge scoring opportunities to occur, only allowed to scavenge off someone else’s hard work.
I was playing Khorne for what I think was the first time, and I knew the best strategy for Khorne, which was to try and kill everyone. The new cards didn’t really help with this strategy, as they are balanced to allow Khorne to have a chance winning with points. I used a quick opportunistic play to score a ruined region and leapt on the point count, and was spinning that dial as fast as expected, so that by the start of turn five, it was assumed a foregone conclusion that I was going to win. But it was not so, while I spent the last turn using my new bloodletter ability to pull in two points for every kill (holy moley), I wasn’t watching the board and Slannesh was able to use some tricker to score over 25 points and beat me to 50, winning the game. It was an out of nowhere win, very impressive.
Then I went to a party and played party games! The first was Smart Ass, a trivia game in which clues are slowly revealed for a person, place, or thing, and the first to guess it gets to move ahead. It’s competent, and there are a lot of clues, but for some reason there was a house rule saying that in order to win the game, you have to answer two difficult questions in a row. The only effect this had was extending the game an extra half hour, especially when the winner was a “team,” meaning we forced them to answer twice as many questions.
Funglish was next, a word guessing game in which you have a set number of adjectives you can use, and you place them on a board saying the object is definitely X, or kinda Y. You try to get all the other players to guess the six words on your card within the time limit. It’s pretty fun, especially having to work in teams and guess what’s going on. I’m amazed at the number of times the clue “Asian” ended up on the board. My only concern is that there are only 50 clue cards, and the materials are a mess to work with.
I kinda played the Star Trek board game, as I didn’t feel very gamey, so I just sat by and told them the rules. It eventually broke up after everyone was finished eating and they wanted to play a game everyone could participate in.
Then people were starving for a game that everyone could play, and with an odd number of players and a refusal on my own silent part not to bring out “Time’s Up” again, I gerryrigged a game of The Resistance with a deck of cards. I couldn’t find an English copy of the rules, so I stole the information I didn’t know from a Polish translation and I think I did alright. I ended up being a traitor both games, although I completely blew it the first game when I had started making decisions before I knew who my fellow traitors were, so I did the eyes closed eyes open routine, and then instead of just sticking with my first decision, passed the leadership to the next player while fumbling over my words so that it was obvious I was a bad guy. The villains still won both games, however; the second game with all failed missions. It was interesting, although I imagine it was a lot harder to figure out who was what, because of the small amount of time discussing things and the possible traitors about. I think it was okay, although I want to check out a real copy of the rules to make sure I didn’t misremember the game, because as someone commented, the traitors have a real easy job, because they know exactly what to do.
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