Post by craftyshafty on Aug 11, 2010 14:42:10 GMT -5
My friends and I played in a BSG minis event at GenCon hosted by "M Collective", run by the GM promoting his sci-fi minis rules.
I already have Colonial Battlefleet, and we all played in a Naval Thunder demo earlier in the con. That set us up for MASSIVE disappointment when we played this guy's event.
Poor organization, convoluted rules and a crazy attempt at plotting vector movement resulted in me waiting two hours and twenty minutes before reaching the combat phase of turn TWO. That's right 140 minutes before I rolled my first dice in anger.
24 d10s. Chance to hit the incoming Cylon missile: 1. Result: no hits.
My friend also rolled: 24 dice, 1 hit. Result: 1 Cylon missile damaged. Damaged?!? How do you "damage" a missile in a fleet-scale game?
It was the low point of the con and we pressed the eject after 2.5 hours of a 4-hour event.
Makes one appreciate the element of "fun" as an integral part of games.
I already have Colonial Battlefleet, and we all played in a Naval Thunder demo earlier in the con. That set us up for MASSIVE disappointment when we played this guy's event.
Poor organization, convoluted rules and a crazy attempt at plotting vector movement resulted in me waiting two hours and twenty minutes before reaching the combat phase of turn TWO. That's right 140 minutes before I rolled my first dice in anger.
24 d10s. Chance to hit the incoming Cylon missile: 1. Result: no hits.
My friend also rolled: 24 dice, 1 hit. Result: 1 Cylon missile damaged. Damaged?!? How do you "damage" a missile in a fleet-scale game?
It was the low point of the con and we pressed the eject after 2.5 hours of a 4-hour event.
Makes one appreciate the element of "fun" as an integral part of games.
