Earlier in the year I caved and finally bought a play set of the metal mechs for my all time favourite board game Scythe.

Saturday we got to play Scythe with those mechs.

They look flipping awesome.

Sadly I can’t tell you who played what exactly and the mat combinations. I forgot to take a note of them.

As you can see from the gallery below our end game change was Mission Possible.

I was playing Fenris with the industrial board. Marcin was getting his filthy hands on my beloved Rusviet. Anthony had Polania, and Dave Clan Albion.

We were using the modular board. My preferred map. Stops that “I play x, if I do xyz I win in 12 turns” play by numbers. That sucks the fun out of the game.

The modular board means the map and starting positions are different each game.

There is the risk as Anthony and Dave found that your starting resources may not be favourable to your faction.

The unfavourable starting positions slowed Anthony and Dave down. But Anthony was throwing out those completed objective stars. I think at the end game the rest of us had got four or five stars out. But Marcin had that all important sixth out.

I managed to get an encounter card that I could add to my player board as an extra action I could take. Plus I got a factory card.

I still find it hard I let Marcin hold the factory space.

My last turn from the end game condition allowed me to put out two more objective stars.

In the end Marcin got the victory. A victory with hindsight I could have avoided and grabbed for myself. If only I had attacked him on the factory space on my last turn before the end of the game.

It was great getting Scythe to the table again.