Boxing Day Game 2023… The Game.

Greetings …

I managed to take a lot less pictures for this game than I normally do…

The main reason was… I was having far to much fun… I can honestly say that Mharaid and I spent a lot of our time laughing…

I have… for probably the first time… altered some pictures to try and give an impression of what happened in this delightfully confused massacre/game.

First up a reminder of the table…

All is well and Old Sleepy is guarding the Yule Goat and the Christmas Tree…

Our four groups of Treasure/Christmas Dinner hunters enter the table…

Sergeant Baptiste and his men…

Sergeant Shirley and his men…

Malchanceux and his men…

Rust and his Villains…

An excellent start… Mharaid/Rust immediately started to get organised…

I rolled…Mostly…. One’s 🙄

Then…

Henri and Dorian turned over a counter…

And the Snow hits the fan…

As always Mharaid rolled well and got more organised…

Don’t they look pretty…

Army Red starts to find Christmas Dinner…

I continue to roll… This 🙄.

It didn’t all go Mharaids way though…

Dougal got Canvassed…

Sergeant Shirley continues in an orderly manner…

Even I am starting to feel sorry for Dougal…

Sergeant Shirley continues to add to his force…

After much wandering and failed dice rolls…

I find Dimitri…

Do you remember this Snowball ?…

Do you remember this dice ?…

Do you remember Dimitri ?… 😱😱😱.

The table as it looked when we stopped for some food…On the far left of the picture you can just make out a marauding Snowball…

Not as posh as Cleaver and Wake…

But a very tasty Beef and Sausage Stew…

Yum! Yum! Yum!…

After Dinner…

Rust has also been organised and has made a few new friends…And Drunky.

Mharaid’s plan was to form groups move as one and deliver maximum firepower on my scattered disorganised forces…

Groups may also be seen of as targets of opportunity… 😱…

Drunky sees the Yule Goat…

The Snowball sees Drunky…

Goodbye Drunky…

Shirley continues to add to his force…

Shirley moves towards the Village and my still disorganised force nearby… For a change The Dice Gods were looking the other way…

Oh Snow!!!…

David manages to dive out of the way… In the background Dougal is still being Canvassed 🤣.

Near the Village… Although slightly disorganised Malchanceux starts to hold off Shirley’s more organised advance…

Yes even I was a bit surprised…

Rust and Baptiste also faced off against each other…

Then this happened…

😱😱😱😱😱😱.

Seeing the horror on the other side of the table…

Shirley Bayonet Charged Malchanceux 😳

The results were devastating 💀💀💀💀💀…

Of course this doesn’t go unnoticed…

Meanwhile…

The slaughter of Rust and Baptiste continues…

At this point I realised that I had three men left in any condition to fight…

I surrendered to the victors… 

The Three Snowballs of the Apocalypse 🤣😂🤣…

Given that The Three Snowballs of the Apocalypse were rolling randomly for direction… Once they were all out on the table and we generously presented ourselves in convenient stationary groups it started to feel like they were the organised ones… Prowling like round snow sharks looking for victims 😳💀💀.

So… 

Although I managed to knock a few people over… I caused no actual casualties..

Dad… 0.

Mharaid caused six casualties…

Mharaid… 6

The Snowballs caused nine casualties ten if you include the pig…

Snowballs… 9/10.

Third place is a first for me 🤣😂🤣… Sigh!

Would we make the Snowballs weaker next time… Of course not 😁… We will just have to change our tactics 🤣.

Bob Brush just wandered about… 

Ken Pump bored poor Dougal rigid…

Drinky was unrevealed in the village… He was probably asleep 😴.

To say this was fun would be a serious understatement…

I hope my report makes some sort of sense and that you enjoyed reading it…If nothing else I hope the pictures made you smile…

All the best.  Aly

Boxing Day Game 2023… The Cast of Players.

Greetings…

I thought I would introduce you to this years cast of players…

Our two groups of Christmas Treasure/Dinner hunters…

Toy Town Army Blue…

Commanded by General Malchanceux…

Toy Town Red Army…

Commanded by General Rust…

These lovely toy soldiers are available from Eureka Miniatures…

https://www.eurekaminuk.com/collections/toy-town-soldiers

Sleepy the Snowman…

Sleepy guards the town and the Yule Goat…

Any group of Toy Town Soldiers entering the Town without an item from the Christmas Dinner will be confronted by this sleepy looking soul…

Anyone or anything trying to destroy the Yule Goat will also be confronted by him…

He may look mild but his stats were something like an Elite Veteran Imperial Guard Grenadier Sergeant…

He is as hard as nails…

Melty the (Soon to be Ex )Snowman…

Any Snowman … Except Sleepy… Who encounters Melty must take an immediate moral test with a minus 2 on dice rolls….

Toy Towns unemployed politicians…Well known for their scandals and misdemeanours.

Who could forget the the Cease and Desist Order/Orders from Ben And Jerry’s…

The Exclusion Order/Orders from Tinkerbell… 

And The Candyfloss Affair 😱.

Ken Pump and Bob Brush….( Okay we probably all know who they really are 🤣).

Anyone who encounters these upstanding fellows will immediately miss a turn as they get canvassed about their voting preferences in the next election…

You must  defeat them in hand to hand combat to get away…

They will move at random or towards anyone in line of sight if not engaged in canvassing/boring people half to death.

Yup!

It’s Drinky and Drunky…

If you are unfortunate enough to encounter either of these drunken idiots they will…

On a roll of…

1-2…” Didn’t you spill my Beer?”…Fight Fight Fight… 

You must engage in hand to hand combat… If you win they will wander off… If you lose you will be knocked over and miss a turn… They will wander off..

2-4…” Your my New Best Friend “… Whomever will join your party and will loyally follow you until they see their Real Best Friend ( Drunky or Drinky) or The Yule Goat… Which must be Brunt 🔥🔥🔥

5-6… They will completely ignore you and wander off to find their Real Best Friend or the Yule Goat.

Drunky, Drinky, Ken and Bobs moves are decided by a random directional dice throw… Or if the actually have line of sight to a new Friend/Target…

Christmas Dinner and ‘Trimmings’… Collect as many as you can and the head for the Christmas tree in the town…

Snowmen… 

As you encounter these fellows they are added to your force as basic infantrymen…

The Three Snowballs of the Apocalypse…

When Hell Freezes Over this is what gets released….

The two smaller Snowballs were treated like Elite Light Cavalry and the bigger one as an Elite Dragoon.

They move randomly bouncing around the field of battle like crazed billiard balls…

If you end up in their line of sight they will go straight at you and attack…

If you win or draw in combat you have jumped out of the way and survive…If not you take damage… 

The best you can hope for is to simply be knocked down and miss a move…

If a Snowman is beaten in combat it is destroyed/absorbed by the Snowball…

It turns out these things were bloody lethal…

I will probably post the game up tomorrow…

Having spent the afternoon having a lovely late lunch at Cleaver and Wake restaurant here in Nottingham… I am going to put my feet up and let it go down…

https://www.cleaverandwake.com/

Smoked Salmon, Venison and Sticky Toffee Pudding rounded off with Coffee and Japanese Whisky for me and a Cucumber and Mint based Cocktail for Mharaid…

All very seasonal I would say😁

And delicious.

All the best.  Aly