AIG (achievements in gaming)

Last night four of us got in a game of Arkham Horror. 6:30 start and 10:05 finish. Played the original box set and it was Monterey (archeologist), Kate (scientist), Vincent (doctor), and Darrel (newspaper reporter) vs Cthulhu. Monterey set the scene early, getting into a scrap the first turn. He'd soon become the teams punching bag constantly spending time in the Asylum and Hospital. The scientist sealed a gate early, but after that the investigators spent most of the game closing gates, but not quite having the clue tokens to make the locations safe. Terror track only managed to advance a couple of times before we manged to close all the gates (three in two turns) while holding on to five gate trophies between the lot of us.

In the end it was a very close game, Cthulhu only needed two more doom tokens to awaken and we had only managed to seal four locations at that point. We managed to luck out and the last mythos card turn had a gate open on our only sealed location, the Woods. The one rumour we did get was shut down in one turn by Monterey and Vincent burning six clue tokens to garner the team one unique item each.

Had a lot of fun but I am looking forward to getting another game in when my buddy Brooke rolls into town. It had been a good eight months since the last game so I had to hit the rules almost every round.

AIG (achievements in gaming)

Title is a complete grab from the D6Generations segment and I love that segment the more I listen to it. Going to try and use it as a personal motivator. I might not be getting some games in but still painting and prepping stuff so here we go....

Read "Path of the Warrior" by Gav Thorpe. Good reading and nice to get some more material on the aspect warriors of the Eldar, especially the Striking Scorpions. I fell in love with these guys when I first saw them in a WD back in '90. Jes Goodwin's concept art was awesome and marked the departure from RT where we had guardians and harlequins and little else. I found the novel added some depth to the exarches that was pretty fresh given they had the potential to be so one-dimensional.

Painted some aspect warriors. Have upcoming 40k games and wanted to get some warriors better matched to my guardians colour scheme. I'll let you know which unit was painted up in the battle report. Last pics were a little dissapointing due to the amount of black and grey in teh pics. hard to see what is what so I'm working on that.

That's about it though I should be getting in a couple of games this week: one game of Arkham on Saturday (Z and Otori, I'm sure you'd be invited but I'll double check as to how much seating is available) and one or two of 40k.