Lee (mechanic) and Richard (soldier) started a two player cooperative game. Only got about 2 turns in because of the heavy usage of the rule book.
But, over two days, Richard did manage to do a paint job (using Citadel contrast paint) of the miniatures.
Playing Nemesis will take you into the heart of sci-fi survival horror in all its terror. A soldier fires blindly down a corridor, trying to stop the alien advance. A scientist races to find a solution in his makeshift lab. A traitor steals the last escape pod in the very last moment. Intruders you meet on the ship are not only reacting to the noise you make but also evolve as the time goes by. The longer the game takes, the stronger they become. During the game, you control one of the crew members with a unique set of skills, personal deck of cards, and individual starting equipment. These heroes cover all your basic SF horror needs. For example, the scientist is great with computers and research, but will have a hard time in combat. The soldier, on the other hand…
Nemesis is a semi-cooperative game in which you and your crewmates must survive on a ship infested with hostile organisms. To win the game, you have to complete one of the two objectives dealt to you at the start of the game and get back to Earth in one piece. You will find many obstacles on your way: swarms of Intruders (the name given to the alien organisms by the ship AI), the poor physical condition of the ship, agendas held by your fellow players, and sometimes just cruel fate.
The gameplay of Nemesis is designed to be full of climactic moments which, hopefully, you will find rewarding even when your best plans are ruined and your character meets a terrible fate.
Jim, Lee, Richard and Steve played the game over various evenings.. It was fun before 1942, then it became the Germans lose on every thing and there is nothing that can be done. Becomes just an administrative decline that is immensely boring.
Army of the Night (Richard) versus The Oathborne (Lee). The Witch Queen army starts fine. But, the Oathborne has more income and much larger armies. Once the Oathborne installed their two largest unit in two of their loyal cities by the 4th season, it was game over for the Witch Queen. Her large units were 3X bigger than any in the Witch Queens and immune to being enslaved. It seems all the scenarios were so unbalanced toward the bad guys that it a given in each game. So packed up in the box and shelved.
Lee and Richard tried the Orcs versus Goblins campaign. The Goblins have numerous weak but inexpensive troops while the better Orc troops are more expensive and have better magic users. The Orcs (Lee) lost the first game by running out of gold to pay for their settlements (4) quite early in the game while the the Goblins (Richard) razed his conquests and only kept one settlement. Just to keep playing, the Goblins let the Orcs raze of one of their settlements. The game continued with the extra stuff the Orcs got with their inflated settlements that giving the Orcs the final win since they won on ties. It didn’t help that the Goblins couldn’t take any settlements via die tools for most of the game.
