Last night I met up with Marcin to play some games. Which meant this was a third night this week that I’d done some gaming. Something that hasn’t happened in a long long time.
We started off with a game of 51st State. A game I haven’t played in a few years. I think the last time I played this was at a UKGE with my friend Scott.
We were playing Marcin’s copy of the game that is the Ultimate edition. Which is a pretty cool edition that replaces the Master edition. It has all the expansions, “upgraded” components, insert, etc. I was almost envious and regretting I hadn’t got this edition myself. But at the time it was announced and added to GameFound or whatever it used to be called I couldn’t justify the expense.
After a brief refresh on the rules we were ready to play.
I was off to a slower start than Marcin unable to get anything going resource wise until it was too late to stop or catch up.
By the time the game ended I had only gained 3 victory points to Marcin’s 25!
Next I introduced Marcin to the dark draft format for Dice Masters using my pauper cube.
The teams we ended up drafting were the following:
My Team
- Gambit: Ace in the Hole
- Green Goblin: Goblin Lord
- Mystique: Ageless
- Hawkeye: Longbow
- Psylocke: Betsy Braddock
- Wolverine: Wildboy
- Professor X: Recruiting Young Mutants
- Doctor Strange: Sorcerer Supreme
Basic Actions
- Rally!
- Gearing Up
Marcin’s Team
- Black Widow: Natural
- Falcon: Samuel Wilson
- Iron Man: Upright
- Punisher: McRook
- Loki: Trickster
- Sabretooth: Something to Prove
- Pyro: Saint-John Allerdyce
- Doctor Doom: Reed Richards‘ Rival
Basic Actions
- Smash!
- Ambush
Game one saw Marcin use the Punisher to great effect. It kept chipping away at my health whilst I failed to really get a solution in place to deal with its threat.
Game two saw me do much better. A mixed attack of two Green Goblins, a couple of sidekicks, and a Gambit swung in to grab me a victory.
Our third and final game was over very quickly. This was the Green Goblin and sidekicks showcase. Which saw me swinging in with an unopposed 18 attack made up of five sidekicks, a Green Goblin, and a Gambit iirc.
The two games I won Marcin did get a Punisher out. But it was used less effectively. For some reason Marcin preferred Falcon over Black Widow.
In all the games I was using the crap out of Professor X’s global to move sidekicks into the prep area. In the first game I needed to do that to buff up Mystique. With the side benefit of it allowing me to ramp into a Professor X or Doctor Strange.
Marcin enjoyed the dark draft format. Which means the two people I’ve played it with it’s been a hit. Marcin also liked the cards in the cube more than the modern cube. They were less complicated. Easier for a new player to understand.
So a great evening of gaming.