Space Hulk Death Angel arrives!

Another great game from Fantasy Flight Games (Makers of Citadels), Space Hulk Death Angel, arrived today, nicely wrapped in plastic still - but that is how it will have to stay until Christmas! :( Oh well, at least I have it...

First two games of Niagara - excellent!!

Today we played our first game of Niagara and although the rules looked long, they summarised onto one one page and we had a fantastic time! This has become our favourite boardgame - firstly Maya, Anita and I played a game with Anita producing a sudden and shock win - you're concentrating so much on ensuring your boats don't go over the falls that you hardly notice who is claiming what gemstone! Maya was able to get into the game straight away with no trouble and with little reading, it is open to an early age. The first game was so successful, that we wanted to play again - this time Roshni joined us as she had finished her homework. With Kavita still working on hers, we dashed up and down the river again, this time I won. Brilliant simple fun but oh so full of strategy! And the mechanics of the flowing river is just brilliant. 

Disaster at Dieppe arrives!

I've been on tender-hooks for each for this! The whole idea of trying to represent the huge catastrophic disaster of the Canadian-British assault on the Dieppe front in 1942 was very appealing. The battlemap comes also with 6 SdKzFW German armoured cars and 6 Long Range Assault jeeps for use with the other side of the map, a battle based around Tubruk. These are represented by plastic vehicles like the other maps, plus some paper info cards which I hope in the future are republished as card. I haven't had the chance to play around with it thoroughly, so a fuller report later.