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Watch out for those vile Nazis!! Fortune and Glory hit the table last Tuesday at the BAD Gamers. Perhaps the very definition of an Ameritrash game, it didn’t have much in the way of mechanics, but more than made up for it with story. We had car chases, shootouts in nightclubs, sabotaged plane rides, ancient … Continue reading Fortune and Glory

RPG night at the BAD Gamers last Tuesday, with Ben running the latest instalment of the D&D campaign That left six of us to play a boardgame, or two. Luckily, Mark had brought along his very blinged out copy of Fief, the game of Medieval French dealings. The academy games version is a reprint of … Continue reading Thief? No, Fief

Quieter night at the BAD Gamers this Tuesday night with just six of us out to game. Alan took Mark, Darren and Pete through the new edition of FFG’s Sid Meir’s Civilisation, which played well but was a little long, was the conclusion. Meanwhile, on the other table Sean and Frank played Napoleonic Sharp Practice, … Continue reading Blackadder saves the day

Tuesday night saw the BAD Gamers play the D&D 5e campaign, the rather impressive looking boardgame Heroes of Land, Air and Sea and a first stab at the Mansions of Madness adventure, Escape from Innsmouth Set in the remote coastal town, the adventure saw the three investigators having to survive the night while trying to … Continue reading Insane times in Innsmouth

Lovecraft, D&D and the ‘Nam. Classic tabletop gaming at the BAD Gamers. Tuesday night had Pete run the next instalment of his D&D boardgame campaign, Martin and Frank play a second game of Force on Force in Vietnam, and Mark, Darren, Lee and Alan play a range of Boardgames including Lovecraft Letter. Next week will … Continue reading Tuesday night classics

Last Sunday saw the BAD Gamers March all day Sunday session. With a few last minute changes this became a board game fest with Forge War, Twilight Struggle, Terraforming Mars, Zombie Dice, and 1754 hitting the table. As ever, a great day’s gaming, that flew by. Tuesday night was the full range of tabletop gaming … Continue reading Catch up on some recent games

Mars was terraformed, a saga was played and a pandemic tackled in last night’s games at the BAD Gamers Alan took Tiago and Darren through the rather excellent Terraforming Mars. The win went to Tiago, with a strategy that focussed on cards/projects. Darren was second with a great revenue engine but the cards didn’t fall … Continue reading What things we accomplish in our humble hobby.

Tuesday night saw three tables up and running at the BAD Gamers, with the unusual twist of two of them being miniatures games and only one for Boardgames. Mark and Chris played a game of Frostgrave, with one particular highlight being the appearance of a giant worm right where a treasure was being looted. Martin … Continue reading Worms, VC and Kingdoms

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 … Continue reading Playing Dead Man’s Hand while Escaping from Colditz to Puerto Rico

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 … Continue reading Christmas Gaming Session