Thursday 31 st May We are open in the main hall-Games night at the Heart Centre Headingley
6.30pm onwards.
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Archive for May, 2012
Battles with model soldiers in the ancient era. These rules describe the Hail Caesar game with all the fundamentals of ancient warfare such as troops, manoeuvre, missile fire, moral and close quarter combat. Detailed rules cover the differences in methods of fighting from the age of the chariot to medieval times.Dean is playing it tonight. See Boardgame Geek for a review of this rule set,
Andy Parkin is offering to play “Empires of the Middles Ages” tonight. This is an intriguing multi-player game that was published by SPI in 1980. One of its designers was the famous J Dunnigan.When it went out of print its second-hand price reached £200+. It has been reprinted now. Give it go tonight. It’s a monster game and a full campaign can take 240 minutes.
Playing Vinci at the Headingley games club where Andy was narrowly denied a win by the narrowest of margins-Phil and Dave ponder their next move. Vinci was first published in 1999 and has proved to be an “evergreen” ever since then. Well reviewed in Boardgame Geek
it proves to be an easy game to understand but tricky to win.
Its a 3-6 player. Quoting Boardgame Geek-
Along the lines of History of the World by Avalon Hill, players cycle through a series of European civilizations as they attempt to score the most points using the civilization’s special powers. The game is set in Europe and each player is provided with a pool of wooden tokens to represent their civilizations. Each player selects a combination of civilization tiles, which give his civilization special abilities or characteristics. Players expand their empire through territorial expansion, often at the expense of other players. The key to the game lies in choosing when to decline your currently played-out civ to get a new one which will keep generating points. Play continues with the cycling of civilizations until a certain score is reached whereupon final rounds are played and a victor is determined.
Andy and Bernie turned out for a go at this great two player game. Ask Bernie if you want a game. To quote Boardgame Geek
Twilight Struggle inherits its fundamental systems from the card-driven classics We the People and Hannibal: Rome vs. Carthage. It is a quick-playing, low-complexity game in that tradition. The game map is a world map of the period, whereon players move units and exert influence in attempts to gain allies and control for their superpower. As with GMT’s other card-driven games, decision-making is a challenge; how to best use one’s cards and units given consistently limited resources?
Thursday 17th May We are open tonight in the main hall-Tonight is Games night at the Heart Centre Headingley 6.30pm onwards. This is the site for information about Headingley Games Club Leeds..
