Saturday, I played host to the reschedule of the MOST EPIC DAY IN GAMING *echo..... echo... echo* in my garage and kitchen. Last month, my wife agreed to let me have some people over for an entire day of all things gaming as part of my birthday but sadly, after a few scheduling conflicts and me getting sick, we had to reschedule. Thus arrives Oct 22nd.
Doors opened at 10:30 with most everyone arriving right around 11. We BS'd for a few then started the day off with a game of Cosmic Encounter. For those who haven't had a chance to play this game, I highly recommend it. It's a great, light game with a huge variety of alien races to select so it has a high replay value. Basic key to the game is to get like 8 foreign colonies on other player's planets. Seems easy but near the middle to end, politics start to play a huge factor. In the end, John pulled out the victory in a most convincing manner. I, on the other hand, hardly played into the equation after getting hit pretty hard early on by a Bistro double cross.
Next, I made the now painful mistake (hindsight is always 20/20, lol) of suggesting we break out Talisman to try out the new Dragon expansion Bistro had gotten. HOURS later, Tom had died and gave up and I followed soon after. We had played parts of the game incorrectly (but hey, it was our first time with the expansion) which drew the game out much longer and made it much more difficult. While Chris, Bistro, and John continued to duke it out, Tom & I retired to the garage to play a few games of Quarriors.
First game of Quarriors, Tom took a commanding lead (talking like a 10 point lead here) but somehow, I was able to mount a comeback and steal the win. Game 2 was more competitive but I was able to eek out the victory in that game too. By then, John had died and gave up so he joined us in the garage to watch game 2. Inside, Bistro and Chris decided that killing the Dragon Overlord was just too hard so they went for a last man standing victory condition. I think in the end, Bistro pulled off the win. They, in turn, locked us in the garage for a bit since they got stuck with clean up duty, lol.
John then had to part cause he had a few other stops to make that evening so the rest of us broke out Gears of War for another try at the first scenario. Last time, we had a strong start but got beaten pretty soundly near the end. We were determined to win it this time because we felt that in order to play scenario #2, we had to beat scenario #1. We started out pretty strong. I got hit pretty early and became sort of a lame wheel for the later part of the game but was able to at least seal 3 emergence holes. With Bistro and Chris helping me keep cards in my hands and Tom keeping the locusts off me, we were able to push through with Bistro closing the other 3-4 emergence holes. The end push was pretty sick but Chris broke out an insane chainsaw cutting 3 drones in half with 1 play. The rest fell shortly after and the victory was ours! We didn't even have a single player go down this go round either!
After that, we were all pretty beat. We had been gaming for a little over 12 hours at that point. Part of me wanted to push on but restrained since everyone had a drive home in front of them. All in all, it was an absolute blast having everyone over and playing some of my favorite games. I am eagerly looking forward to the next Epic Day of Gaming!!
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