More Memoir '44 stuff

A quick visit to the Battlequest shop and I picked up a copy of the Memoir '44 addon "Sword of Stalingrad" - a great new battle map with a set of new battle cards with some extra Stalingrad warfare based cards. I'm not sure what they are yet, because I haven't been through them lol. I've put everything into the Campaign bag and sorted the fantastic "Helper" cards from the Air Pack into the side pockets. I also printed out the fantastic 50 page FAQ from Days of Wonder online! A fantastic nugget of helpful info. Finally, using a couple of discounts, I bought the Memoir '44 Editor - can't wait to use it!

Good old Days of Wonder!

A couple of weeks ago, I purchased the Mediterranean add on pack for Memoir '44, the British and Italian units/badges etc. After checking through the contents I found the three anti-tank launchers were missing. But in the manual, Days of Wonder stated that if any items were missing, they would replace them. So I sent an email letting them know what was wrong, and lo, a few days later, I got a reply from their Customer Services in France promising the items! A week or so later, they arrive in the post! Brilliant! Faultless company.

A weekend away and then a quick game of PictureKa!

So we had a weekend away to the in-laws for a few days for the Easter break, so no gaming, but upon our return, we cracked open the new game of PictureKa to have a quick go. We found it to be a great little filler - light hearted, 20 mins of fun. Think of Where's Wally? and you're on the right tracks. Basically you roll a dice and that tells you one of three types of cards to picture up, blue, red or green. Green cards give you a list of things to find; you choose one, roll another dice and that tells you how many of those to find. Eg stars, plugs, animals. You choose animals, roll the die and get 3 - so you have to find three animals in 30 seconds (using a sand timer). A red card is a bidding round where you choose one from a list and bid how many you can find of that item (animals, monsters etc), the highest goes and gets the point if they find that many - if not, they loose a point. Finally blue has a single picture that everyone has to find; first to find gets the point.

It's a great little filler game, lasting about 20 to 40 mins. Good for all ages, although Maya needed a little help in reading the list of things to find. One slight against the game, some of the images are ambiguous - for example, "Find 6 clouds" found Kavita pointing out clouds and steam - did steam count? We found ourselves having to agree or disagree on the spot if we agreed with the find. It can be a bit of slight at times, but still its all good fun.