Conquest of the Empire (6 Player - Advanced)

Today we finally got a game in with more than 4 players!  We played a late night session with 6 players (Wil, Nate, Ricky, John from Sanford, Myself and Brandon) and we tried out the new 'advanced rules' version rather than the 'classic' we have been playing for the last two years, and had a LOT of fun, I liked this version of the game much better than the 'classic' version. probably because it added a lot of elements to the game and felt 'new'.

Even with the alliance bidding, for the most part the game was Nate, Wil and myself against Brandon, Ricky and John. One turn I think in the beginning the order was different for one round that didn't really matter.

The hilight of this game session for me this time, was when it looked as though my army was making a march on Brandon's army and Nate was in a position to back me up. To help out Brandon Ricky and John both sent a bunch of support troops, but on my turn I surprised them by NOT attacking Brandon, rather I pressed forward and attacked John's army. My victory in John's capital forced him to retreat, however this was only a temporary setback for him as I had no way to remain there the next turn, so I fell back to my land.

Conquest of the Empire

Played a 4 player game with Wil, Ricky and Brandon.

Wil started a battle with me in the lower right of the map in the third or fourth turn and I lost 2 leaders. I essentially threw in the towel and lost my other two leaders fighting Brandon, and finally Caezer lead an attack with one soldier against Brandon's capital. Brandon took control of my army, and then in an odd tactical error lost control of his entire army (including mine) to Ricky. At this point Wil threw in his towel as well. 

Whenever we play this game it usually takes 6 hours and the first 4 or 5 there is no fighting, then all hell breaks loose, this is the first time in Conquest that Wil and I have every fought.

I am getting tired of playing the regualr (classic) rules on this because even though I think this is a great game, I am not having fun. So the next time we play this, I will only play with 5 or 6 people, or I will try the advanced rules, but no more "classic" rules with 3 or 4 people.

Risk - Star Wars: Original Trilogy Edition (the shortest game of Risk in the world!)

I played this game with Wil and Ricky today. 

This is actually the second shorted game of Risk I have ever played in my life. The first shortest might not even count as a game since nobody got to move. Ricky threw a fit and quit the game before the dice were even rolled, he stormed out and vowed never to play Risk again.

That was a good year ago, and now here we find ourselves playing Risk with Ricky again... At least time time I got a turn in... Wil won at the start of the second turn (He was playing as the Hutt's) because (in my opinion), Ricky (Rebels) pulled all of his forces out of the bottom region to fight my Empire forces, allowing Wil to get 2 green territories there. He fell through on my regions and took 2 more for the win before I even had a second turn. 

Bottom line - Wil is too good at Risk to play this with him again because every time he dominates, and Ricky is to vindictive of a player and often focuses all of his efforts onto one opponent and completely ignores the other just to prove a point.

Never play Risk with Wil or Ricky again! 

Battleball

Brandon got this game quite some time ago, they were on sale at TRU for $5 each and we actually ended up getting two of them (thanks for the tip Wil). We played a game and had a decent time. I think that if we got into the game a bit more, developed some good strategy and some friendly rivalry, that this game could actually be pretty darn good.

I won, but only because Brandon was terrified to pass the ball for some reason. He never passed it once the entire game.

It might not be soon, but we will definitely get this game out on the table again. With 2 sets, I could see repainting one set so we'd have 4 different teams, and eventually get four players and do some kind of play off type of gaming event, that could be a lot of fun.

Phase 10 Dice again...

After their game of Visual Eyes, My wife Kris and my oldest son Brandon decided to play Phase 10, they again tried to suck me into playing with them, but again they picked a game that I really didn't enjoy that much. This one wasn't 'bad', just not good enough to want to play it today.

They played and Brandon won. I think I'd rather just play the card version of this game if I play it again.