Games, Board and Video plus the start of Week 8
Had a pretty good week overall. Made progress on goals, had an excellent steak dinner at Flemings, and was able to finish Hero of the Kingdom this week. Played another round of Kinfire Chronicles, and the Beast was stunned, but not defeated. The battle was lost - annoyingly due to the randomness of picking tokens from a bag. The bag consists of 14 enemy tokens, 12 player tokens and three time tracker tokens (so you'll never be able to predict gameplay near the end of the bag). The first battle drew 12 enemy tokens, 3 time tracking tokens and only 3 player tokens. For the second phase of the battle, in which the enemy's health was refreshed (and the players' health were not) the enemy tokens pulled were 9, and 2 player tokens before death and a loss. When the enemy gets 4 turns to 1 of yours, it doesn't matter how clever or well you play, you're going to lose. I don't know if it was just bad luck or if some house ruling needs to be put into place here. I played ...