New standards for a 'quick' game!!!

[Legionnaire]

This evening Matt and I probably set a new club record!!! We played the Lovecraftian horror skirmish game Strange Aeons and managed not only one game, but TWO. I timed the second one, 35 minutes from start to finish!!!

It wasn't that we DIDN'T try to play tactical and making decisions etc, but the system is fairly 'rules light' so you don't do an extortionate amount of calculations to each dice roll.

It's fairly quick and brutal, and in addition, you don't even need to be 'mortally wounded' a model can be taken out by going insane due to various happenings and effects.

I think the definite highlight in the two games was my poor Priest who not only became absolutely doo-lally (Basket Case) AND gained Bulletophobia (needs to take a test every time he tries to fire a gun as he now suffers with fear of them!!!) in the first game, but in the second managed to take out not only one, but TWO opponents with a sharp knife before being treacherously shot in the back by a nefarious cultist!!!

We do enjoy ourselves though and that's the main thing

The Swede.

[morgan]

It did seem to be a brutal game but that's kinda fair enough. Bullets and knives ... those things hurt, after all! And with only 3-5 models on a side, it's going to be a quick engagement. I like that games exist down to this level, though. You can always build them up to make them bigger for special occasions.

[Legionnaire]

Jul 21, 2015 6:35:49 GMT morgan said:

It did seem to be a brutal game but that's kinda fair enough. Bullets and knives ... those things hurt, after all! And with only 3-5 models on a side, it's going to be a quick engagement. I like that games exist down to this level, though. You can always build them up to make them bigger for special occasions.

Brutal but whole load of fun, and although being 'rules light' it covers most things anyways. As you rightfully say, you can build them up bigger for some special game, and the way it works is pretty nice. The Threshold agents (goodies) are having a certain 'budget' if they prevail and get more experienced, the team is worth more, and EACH scenario the Cult of the Black Goat get's to field the corresponding amount, which in turn could be a very wide range of adversaries, a small army of cultists swarming the handful of investigators, a couple of modest threats or even one single mindboggling Eldritch Abomination!!!

The only slight gripe I have is that when you've picked your agents and their equipment, there's no way of re-equipping them. They will either learn their lesson or perish, no one retires , fighting unnameable Evil is a way of life not a choice!!! Hahahaha