Two game nights

From the past couple of weeks... 

Dead of Night

A couple two-player games at my friend's place. He made absurdly delicious Mexican food (tortilla chicken casserole main, intense home made salsa) which we enjoyed with fresh margaritas, and a crisp German beer I've been enjoying recently (Holsten). First scenario: We tried to make a quick escape from the zombie horde by hotwiring the car. The hotwiring worked, but since the car was a mini and since we didn't do anything to clear zeds away from the exit the car was overwhelmed by a mob and it crashed. I consider it a victory that we managed to slide out of the car and escaped back to the house alive. The new plan was to hide in a washroom until sunrise when the army would arive. But just as I got the house I got grabbed and chomped, and spent the next few rounds trying to delay my inevitable transformation into a zed. It didn't take long. Second scenario: We had much more success here. When we arrived in the mini, we drove around the area running zeds over (my friend is a Car Wars freak, so that strategy came naturally). Then we each found fire axes and were able to make short work of the zeds with those.  Music: various horror soundtracks, tunes from some Swedish death metal band (forget the name) that produced an album of horror music.

Battlestar Galactica

Played at my &  my partner's place with 3 other friends. Since I was still thinking about the awesome Mexican food from the previous week, I decided to try to make something like that. Baked enchilada burritos, a few different fresh salsas, a couple of salads, organge/mango spritzers, Holsten. The food worked out really well. It was the first time playing BSG for our three friends, so we decided to shorten the game a bit (humans win if they jump after reaching 6 distance, sleeper phase at 3 distance). For the first half of the game the friends were a bit overwhelmed with the rules and details, but by the second half they were really into it. I was a human Baltar, and I knew that Agathon was a cylon. But I didn't realize that my parter was the other cylon, which sucked for us humans because she was Saul and had both president and admiral titles. Agathon revealed and dropped a massive assault super crisis card on us at a time when we already had 2 fucking basestars on the board and centurions close to the end of the track. Humans had no chance, especially since one of us was Boomer in the brig. It was the centurions who got us in the end. It was awesome, and the friends liked it. The next game will go much better now that the learning curve is over . One of my friends brought a bunch of fresh cherries which were surprisingly yummy with the after dinner scotch I was drinking. Music: various Brazillian tunes (album of tunes selected by David Byrne), PJ Harvey, Bob Dillan, Chet Baker, Coltrane.

Next up: Napoleon's Triumph