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Warning: I am about to totally nerd out but keep reading if you have a little (or a lot) of nerd in you.
So I went to a board game group this week and would love to get you guys' opinion on some of the haunt/horror related games out there if you play them.
I was going specifically to play "Last Night on Earth" and we had a nice 6 player game and I was the only one who had played before (once) so I ended up explaining the rules and such. Myself and one other guy were the Zombies and we pretty much destroyed the Heros without much of a fight (thanks to a sheriff that couldn't shoot straight; i.e. the player rolled poorly). Love the game, want to get into some of the advanced scenarios more. More details and the rulebook can be found at the Flying Frog Website: http://www.flyingfrog.net/lastnightonearth/
Then we played a game called "Betrayal at House on the Hill". . I had never even heard of the game before (just getting back into board games), but WOW this game was incredibly fun. Basically, you have several player 3-6 i think (we had 6) that explore a haunted house. You place tiles as you go and everyone is trying to build stats get items and build out the house by moving into new rooms and placing tiles. Well eventually a "Haunt" event gets triggered and one of the characters becomes "evil" and now has to take out everyone else. Depending on the room and the omen that set off the haunt determines what the Haunt is and what the Heroes and Traitor have to do to win the game. So it is a vastly different experience every time. It was amazing and despite the veterans telling us that the Heroes were going to when since we built out the house a LOT before the haunt, the Giant Spider that was spawned by the haunt and injected one of our heroes with eggs, and the traitor preceeded to eliminate us one by one. Our goal was to free the trapped hero from the webs, use a med kit to heal him of the eggs, and escape out the front door. We almost had him free of the webs before the traitor and the Spider became too much for us. Next time will be totally different and I can't wait to play it. Anyone else played this awesome game? There is actually a demo on line that shows you a little how it works: http://www.wizards.com/avalonhill/hoth_demo/hothdemo.asp
Thoughts on either of these games? Any other haunt/horror board games out there you guys recommend, like, love hate? What are your thoughts?
So I went to a board game group this week and would love to get you guys' opinion on some of the haunt/horror related games out there if you play them.
I was going specifically to play "Last Night on Earth" and we had a nice 6 player game and I was the only one who had played before (once) so I ended up explaining the rules and such. Myself and one other guy were the Zombies and we pretty much destroyed the Heros without much of a fight (thanks to a sheriff that couldn't shoot straight; i.e. the player rolled poorly). Love the game, want to get into some of the advanced scenarios more. More details and the rulebook can be found at the Flying Frog Website: http://www.flyingfrog.net/lastnightonearth/
Then we played a game called "Betrayal at House on the Hill". . I had never even heard of the game before (just getting back into board games), but WOW this game was incredibly fun. Basically, you have several player 3-6 i think (we had 6) that explore a haunted house. You place tiles as you go and everyone is trying to build stats get items and build out the house by moving into new rooms and placing tiles. Well eventually a "Haunt" event gets triggered and one of the characters becomes "evil" and now has to take out everyone else. Depending on the room and the omen that set off the haunt determines what the Haunt is and what the Heroes and Traitor have to do to win the game. So it is a vastly different experience every time. It was amazing and despite the veterans telling us that the Heroes were going to when since we built out the house a LOT before the haunt, the Giant Spider that was spawned by the haunt and injected one of our heroes with eggs, and the traitor preceeded to eliminate us one by one. Our goal was to free the trapped hero from the webs, use a med kit to heal him of the eggs, and escape out the front door. We almost had him free of the webs before the traitor and the Spider became too much for us. Next time will be totally different and I can't wait to play it. Anyone else played this awesome game? There is actually a demo on line that shows you a little how it works: http://www.wizards.com/avalonhill/hoth_demo/hothdemo.asp
Thoughts on either of these games? Any other haunt/horror board games out there you guys recommend, like, love hate? What are your thoughts?
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