Thursday, October 21, 2010

Holding Back The Invasion!

With an unexpected night of 2 player games available to Mike and I we chose to venture into the dark tunnels. With me spawning the evil in a secret location Mike had the challenge of trying to find the 'pit' from which I come forth and destroy it with explosives.
Mike started in the direction of the blue arrows but soon found 2 dead ends and worse yet a section of the tunnel filled with water and right beside that a rather tight squeeze only able to fit one warrior at a time. Faced with no other choice, because of the dead ends, the warriors had no choice but to go through the waist deep water then the tight squeeze one at a time. 

Making it to the area from which the red arrows originate he split up a bit and went both right and left. With the Trog's having to go after both groups it left the tunnels a bit weakened. With 2 death's under his belt he pushed on finally coming to the pit he needed to destroy. Mike laid the explosives down but was then met with a Demon and a Trog. Having to withstand one final fight before setting of the explosives. With one last effort the dark one's attacked. The Blade for Hire withstood the initial assault barely! I stress barely because it came down to one HP. With the explosives set off destroying himself and all present he succeeded in closing the pit and win the game. Re-reading a few posts on BGG it is clear the hero's should have made one more roll during the initiation phase to see if he set the explosives off. And with a 1 in 6 chance for success we may never know if the hero's would have won or not.

A very good game. I held off a bit more than I should have and paid for it. Mike played great as usual even though luck was not on his side throughout either in tile placement or dice rolls. With the possibility of the 'pit' being discovered within the last 4 tiles, it was drawn on the last tile even. 

Great game it will take me awhile to tire from. Throughout the whole game you just didn't know how it was going to end until it ended.  This one will be replayed soon I hope.