- Orbitstar: Expedition to Darwin IV (4p)
- Battle of Hoth (2p, x2)
- Something else I’m forgetting?
- and…
Judge Dredd: Helter Skelter (4p).
I usually play Helter Skelter solo with the Dark Judges expansion, so I was very happy to get a four player game in. It was the Judges vs Nikolai Dante vs Strontium Dog vs Slaine in the Halls of Justice; and with relatively few restrictions on line of sight in that map, things got busy pretty fast.
It was fun seeing all the different faction abilities in play together, as there are a number of unique-to-a-single-character abilities, and I’m not used to them all being active in the same game!
It was a close game, eventually seeing three of the four players vying for one final point to get the win. I was one of them, and I wasn’t expecting to succeed when I had Ukko attempt to punch the hitherto-undamaged Mean Machine to death. I had (exactly) the four melee attacks necessary to do it, but with that player having just drawn back to a full hand of cards I was assuming they would defend at least one of those attacks! Or that they could interrupt and move away. Or that someone else would interrupt and steal the victory. But as it turned out I was able to inflict damage with every card, and that was the end of the game!
I had a good time, as did my friend (who finished in last place, but asked me to bring it along to game night sometime – also echoed by our game night host, who couldn’t play today but very much wants to try the game on account of a childhood of 2000AD fandom). The other pair at the table were a bit divided… I think one of them quite enjoyed it, but I got the rather firm impression over the course of the game that it wasn’t the other’s cup of tea at all. I’ll take three out of four.
I’ll need to work on my teach for this. There really aren’t very many rules, but it took much longer to get into the game than I’d expected, so I’ll need to rethink my approach.