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Tuesday, 29 October 2024

Limited time

I've been busy house painting every day to get the house completed before all our belongings arrive via ship. This is not exactly the kind of painting I enjoy, but there is satisfaction in getting the rooms complete. All this painting has meant my wargaming and blogging time has been limited. I did manage to fit in a mech game, though I have not found time to write it up yet.

The start of a mech game which has to be written up.

Yesterday, I took a break from painting as it was a public holiday here in New Zealand, and we were able to organise a family games day. In between having food we played two board games, starting with “Heat - Pedal to the Metal”, a racing car game where you manage a hand of cards to push your engine to its limits to get to the finish line first without spinning out on the corners. It was a very enjoyable game with some clever mechanics that kept everyone in the contest. At some point we all held the lead at different times, and no one fell behind until the last corner, where we pushed our engines to the maximum in a sprint to the finish line.

The first game played

The first lap underway

The second game we played was “Betrayal at the House on the Hill”. A game where players explore a haunted house by placing tiles, gathering items and omens, and improving their characters’ abilities. At a certain point, the omens cause a shift in the game, transforming it from a game of exploration into one of survival. In our game, one player became an evil zombie lord tasked with hunting down the other characters using zombies. There are other survival scenarios in the game and the one selected is dependent upon the last omen found. 

The second game played.

The haunted house is explored.

It was a fun games day.


16 comments:

  1. I much prefer figure painting to house painting. Good to see you getting to take a break from work to enjoy a couple of boardgames.

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    1. I am so looking forward to be in the house and setup to do some figure painting.

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  2. Good to have a break from that 1:1 scale painting. Nice way to spend the day.
    Chris

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    1. Hi Chris. It was an excellent day playing games with the family.

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  3. Now I don't mind re-decorating at all, in fact I find it quite therapeutic:). It's all the prep work before hand I hate! Nice to see you managing to get some games in though as a break from the 1:1 painting.

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    1. Unfortunately I cannot pace myself with the painting as I am on a deadline to get the whole house painted before all our household goods arrive. I just enjoy the satisfaction of completing one room at a time :-)

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  4. Welcome to Aotearoa, Peter! Interesting board games, and the second one in particular, sounds like it could be used to generate a figure based Pulp style skirmish game!

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    1. Thank you. An interesting point about repurposing the rules for a skirmish game. Very doable.

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  5. A couple of interesting board games, nice to get a wee bit of time to play them.

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    1. It was a good break and great to catch up with the kids.

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  6. Although house painting is not much fun, it is much easier when the furniture is not there yet. Hope you get it all done Peter.

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  7. Entertaining games Peter. Much more so than DIY.

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    1. Yes, much more enjoyable than house painting.

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  8. Think everyone's on the same wavelength, there's no competition between DIY and figures!

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    1. Having most of my wargaming kit in transit helps focus my priorities on DIY activities.

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