The start of Friday had so much promise with my car headlights illuminating the flecks of snow from the light snow flurries as I drove across the Fenland landscape in the dark.
The snow got heavier, but sadly wasn’t settling. I’d been looking forward to our first real snow since about 2010. Loki and Nico hadn’t seen snow. I was hoping to introduce them to snowballs.
Luckily our weekly Friday night gaming meet up at The White Lion is the perfect antidote to the mornings disappointment, and a great way to get the weekend started.
Our evening started off with a learning game of Dark Moon.
You look at the games rule book and think “wow this is a complicated game”. But in reality it’s pretty simple once you start playing.
One of us was a traitor. But who was it? I knew it wasn’t me. Was it Jonathan or Diego?
Ever since Jonathan and I first played Memoir ’44 it has been a running joke about his bad dice rolls.
That running joke was all the evidence I needed to accuse Jonathan of being the traitor.
Dark Moon was ok with three players. But I would like to try with higher player counts. I think identifying the traitor will be harder, more accusations and votes being made. Overall more what the game is all about.
Although this game has a sci-fi theme. The theme is almost none existent. It could almost be any theme.
Jonathan thought the tasks and events were too easy to complete. But I’m not sure. It’s a nice touch that you can adjust the difficulty of the game for either side using one of the variants suggested in the rule book.
Oh yeah, Jonathan was the traitor and totally failed to stop us winning.
House of Borgia was back to the table completing a theme of betrayal, bluffing and lying for the evening.
It’s amazing what a big difference playing the game correctly makes!
I enjoy the liars dice mechanic of this game. I really must get my copy of Perudo (which is the other name for Liars Dice) to the table.
Luckily for me I was the most “sneaky” and won the game.
Do I have to tell you how we finished the evening of great gaming off? By celebrating with meat of unknown origin soaked in chilli source, some “salad”, all held together within a wrap.
I’m looking forward to next weeks meet up. Finally Mechs vs Minions gets to the table.