That’s what it was like at the BAD Gamers December all day gaming session, on Sunday It kicked off with three miniature wargames – Frostgrave, Dead Man’s Hand and new kid on the block, Scrappers Frostgrave is a firm favourite in the club, with Dead Man’s Hand, a close second. Scrappers played surprisingly well. It …
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Descent continued its journey towards the end of the campaign with part two of the Wyrm Turns scenario. This saw the (so called) heroes try and stop the Overlord’s minions escape from the dungeon with the Red Dragon Skull. Despite Overlord Frank now playing with a little more organisation (he has a spreadsheet!) allowing him …
That was the content of last night’s meeting of the BAD Gamers. Tom, who hasn’t been around for a while, and is now secretary of the Banbury wargames club, NOW Gamers, came along and had a game of Wrath of Kings with Darren A. The RPG’ers played the dark ages version of Vampire and the …
Last games of January 2017 Only five of us out last night at the BAD gamers, but we got some good games in nevertheless. Ben took Darren S and Mark H through a starter battle of Dystopian wars with the East India Company coming to blows with the Polish- Lithuanian Confederation. Not sure how the …
With January about to leave us, its time to catch up on some of the games played recently at the BAD Gamers Mark, Lee and Frank took Merchants & Marauders for a spin. Been a while, and it showed in Frank’s ability to remember the rules! Still Lee created a good narrative as a merchant …
RPG night at the BAD Gamers last night, so while that group battled as vampires in the Dark Ages, the rest of us, and a new guy, Lee, took Warhammer Quest: The Adventure Card Game for a walk around the table. WH:TACG is a card based dungeon crawl based on the Warhammer Quest boardgame from …
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First night back at the BAD Gamers for 2017, and Paul and Frank took Halo Fleet Battles for a try out, using the two player starter box and the Fall of Reach Campaign. This campaign is designed to teach new players the game in a video game tutorial manner – i.e. start simple and add …
Five of us made it a long to the inaugural Christmas afternoon games session, last Wednesday (28 December) We played a tough game of Last Night on Earth, with Mark H as the Zeds taking the win in the last fight of the game. If the heroes had won the that fight, the game …
The re-imagined classic, Escape from Colditz hit the table for the end of term game, at the BAD Gamers last night. A few of us remembered it from our youth, and this new version while an improvement, still has some flaws from days of yore; – Several times an escape officer’s turn would be spent …
Last Night on Earth Salvage Mission – get to the plane! Last Night on Earth is very much a firm favourite at the BAD Gamers. A story driven game, with a roll and move mechanic, and a zombie movie theme, it never fails to deliver a great time, with experiences being retold many times over. On …