The Unloved: Owned but unplayed.

Much like the kid who would take a brief case to school, these 3 games suffer the ridicule of their peers. For no other reason than they have yet to be played.

Below are the named and shamed with a call to arms to try and reduce this list, before my next batch of games arrive!

Duel in the Dark

Dispute it one time owning 2 copies of this game, it has yet to make its way to the gaming table.

This game first suffered because it was bought as a batch of 4 or so when on a trip to London's fantastic Leisure Games. Then once striping of the shrink wrap we found that this game stank! literally! Apparently a batch these games has been stored in a particularly dank warehouse and had gathered a nasty case of mould. None of the bits were damaged but it took a good month airing before I could even get round to assembling.... can you imagine! by then something else new and shiny had taken my attention.

So who fancys a game of 2 player light euro/wargame which takes around an hour to play, Depicting the Allied bombing of German city's during WWII?

Road Kill.

There is an adage that something that something that cost nothing has no value and unfortunately poor Road Kill hasn't had enough invested it it yet to hit the table. Received in trade for my spare copy of Duel in the Dark, this looks to be quite good card game with a car warsy race theme. The bits look a bit dated, but I am sure we are all passed that by now!

Playing 2-10 players best with 4/5 it is an a tricky spot because
there are load of other great games filling this hole.

Still i haven't lost all hope and will defiantly try and get this played soon. Perhaps on one of the Saturday lunchtime sessions?

Europe Engulfed

Now for the biggie, to be honest I knew this was always going to be a tricky one. A grand strategy block game covering the Europe theatre of war during WWII, rules on the upper end of our complexity scale, clocking in at 10-14 hours for a full campaign.

Still there are scenarios which can be completed in a couple of hours, and it looks so beautiful! look

So with that, an open challenge any of you Man/Woman enough to take my virginity? And no I didnt take a belief case to school.

Conflict of Hero's Storms of Steel rule preview

I have been lucky enough to get a seek peek at the rules of the forthcoming conflict of heroes game, Storms of Steel. The designer Ewe Eickert put a request on Board game geek looking for people to give the rule a once over before the sent the final draft to the printers.

It it looking great! There has been a tweek to the turn structure which has a big impact on the game.

Under the new rules each player can have an activated unit. this giver much greater scope for reactive play. Played a game of FF1 with the good lady using these rules and she picked them up in no time. Much more intuitive than the old system.

Will talk some more about the other new rules, aeroplanes etc once i have had a chance to try then out.

Oh look out of the words "completely immobile" they were my suggestion to the designer.
So I am finely in print! Sort of!