We played a game of Fear & Faith yesterday. The villains were werewolves and vampires competing for the ownership of four human cattle. We used Blue Moon and Deadlands figures. The scenario was structured as a werewolf raid on the vampire castle to "save" the human cattle. All in all, a great idea and a balanced scenario but I can't say I was much enamored of the monsters fighting each other. Neither side had missile weapons. Lots of chasing each other around as the Fear checks caused your melee target to run. It was an ok game, but I have never been a fan of the monster vs. monster movie...Fear and Faith really shines when it is Evil versus Good. I snapped some photos on my iPhone.
Wolfen approach stealthily...but that moon is too beautiful not to howl
Vampires awake!
Advance to contact!
Next up, we started to plan Black Powder. My French Rev, ACW, SYW, League of Augsberg, and Carlist War collections are almost there; but would not give the best four player Black Powder game. In the past I always collected for slightly smaller games than a "typical" or "recommended" BP scenario. One of my friends stepped into the breach and offered to provide the ACW troops if I planned the game. He says he has enough to play Bull Run--a personal goal for me to play by the150th anniversary.
Planning finished, we looked for a filler game on my shelves. IT was a toss up between Doom and Castle Ravenloft. The decision was made no easier by presentation as I have painted both sets. The decision went to the new as one guy had never played Castle Ravenloft, a great game. It's cooperative dungeon crawl boardgame based on a simplified 4th edition D&D. Our party (a ranger, cleric, thief and wizard) was tasked with recovering an icon from a chapel deep in the dungeons. It was a near-run thing with the cleric and ranger going down in the final battle. The thief backtabbed a big bad and snatched the icon (saving all of our lives with a healing surge) while the wizard blasted the last of the baddies. It was great fun. Good game if you like cooperative dungeon crawls. It also helped that I had painted figures for all of the monsters and characters. The only thing that would have made it better was to use the Dwarven forge figures; but that wool require some preplanning and we only decided to play it after the F&F game was over.
Planning finished, we looked for a filler game on my shelves. IT was a toss up between Doom and Castle Ravenloft. The decision was made no easier by presentation as I have painted both sets. The decision went to the new as one guy had never played Castle Ravenloft, a great game. It's cooperative dungeon crawl boardgame based on a simplified 4th edition D&D. Our party (a ranger, cleric, thief and wizard) was tasked with recovering an icon from a chapel deep in the dungeons. It was a near-run thing with the cleric and ranger going down in the final battle. The thief backtabbed a big bad and snatched the icon (saving all of our lives with a healing surge) while the wizard blasted the last of the baddies. It was great fun. Good game if you like cooperative dungeon crawls. It also helped that I had painted figures for all of the monsters and characters. The only thing that would have made it better was to use the Dwarven forge figures; but that wool require some preplanning and we only decided to play it after the F&F game was over.
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