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Actually David I'm so sorry but I forgot I have a 40k game with Kai tomorrow night. How about Dark Souls next week?

I'll be around for some 40k if anyone wants a game, or @D_Lo if you wanted to play Dark Souls again I'd be up for that.

I heartily agree with the opinions on Forbidden Island, Pandemic, and Zombicide. I can't wait for Green Horde to get shipped to us hopefully next month. The two Co-op games that I'd put forth that have recently hit the top of my list are Castle Panic and Dark Souls: The Board Game. Castle Panic is a tower defense co-op where you and up to 5 other players (6 total) are attempting to defend your castle from a horde of goblins, orcs, trolls, and boss monsters that are coming out of the forest to knock your stuff down. The players trade cards between them like knights, archers, and barbarians that they can use to kill the gribblies as they come toward your castle. Several expansions are available, none of which I've tried, and even without them the game is a blast to play. Dark Souls: The Board Game got kickstarted in the last year or two and even though I missed funding it I'm soooo glad I picked it up upon full release. The game truly embodies the Dark Souls games with up to four people getting to choose between the herald, assassin, knight, and warrior classes to set out into the world of Lordran/Drangleic/Lothric and combat the hollows, silver knights, and bosses that reside there. Immense amount of replay-ability using gear, leveling up your stats using souls, along with a very unique node-based combat system which totally makes you feel that the game at times is out to get you (welcome to Dark Souls). Even when you open the game box there's a black paper with red text on top that says "You Died". Both games I would very much recommend, and it seems I have some new games to look into.

When you get to playing bigger games, I would heartily recommend trying out a couple blobs of 30 boyz (slugga/choppa or shoota your choice). With the new Mob Rule mechanic and the sheer amount of daaka/choppa Boyz continue to possess, I'm sure you'll be pleased with the results.

My Chaos love has always been Nurgle so my troops of choice are of course Plaguebearers. I will probably be picking up the new Chaos Codex this weekend, but even in the Index Plaguebearers were a reliable, tough Troop choice that you could count on lasting quite a bit longer than their other Troop counterparts. They seem to have lost some of their offensive punch in the Index, but holding objectives and not get shot off them easily is what I want my troops to do, so Plaguebearers I CHOOSE YOU!!! Nurglings are another decent option especially if you are in the mood for a sneaky deployment (assuming they still have this in the codex). They are weaker than they previously have been stat wise, but if all you want them to do is run up and be annoying or infiltrate onto an objective you don't want to dedicate a unit to holding, then Nurglings are the little gribblies for you.

I feel that this edition is the best time to start playing 40k if you never have been before. With my window of involvement in the game spanning 6th to 8th edition, 8th is by far the easiest to learn and the games flow much more smoothly that in previous editions imo. Welcome to the grim dark of the 41st Millenium @Grensche and may your green tide WAAGH! on.

NICE! We’ve got room for one more if anyone still wants in.

Awesome! We just need one more person and then we can begin defending the Wall.

The new content in Chapter Approved got me thinking about maybe wanting to try Apocalypse. It sounds like fun even though organizing a game might be a bear.

Sorry Garet I thought this was the start of the Tuesday game night thread. My hope, as posted above, is to play Settlers and I don't want to commit to a 40k game when I haven't heard of whether or not folks want to play with me. So as of now the chances aren't high out of respect to your scheduling. I just don't want you to hold out for a 40k game that isn't likely to happen.

I am looking for 2-3 other people to play my Game of Thrones: Settlers of Cataan game with me that I've been itching to play recently. There's the regular Settlers mode as well as a game mode where we are not only trying establish our settlements/cities, but trying to repel the wildings that are trying to cross the wall and mess with our stuff. We can play either mode whichever people prefer. Barring no takers I'll be around for 40k per usual.

Tuesday indeed

I am looking for 2-3 other people to play my Game of Thrones: Settlers of Cataan game with me that I've been itching to play recently. There's the regular Settlers mode as well as a game mode where we are not only trying establish our settlements/cities, but trying to repel the wildings that are trying to cross the wall and mess with our stuff. We can play either mode whichever people prefer. Barring no takers I'll be around for 40k per usual.

Yeah we could do another 40k game Jim. We could do another Chapter Approved Scenario or Open War whichever you prefer.

I'll be around for 40k unless folks want to play my new Game of Thrones Cataan game with me. In addition to the base Cataan game we could also play a mode where Wildlings invade our territory and we have to defend the wall to prevent them from doing so. Just another option if folks are interested.

Bravo Sir! Bravo!

If no one takes me up on 40k I'd be ready and willing. Also, if I end up playtesting and we've got enough time we could play one of the new boardgames I got for Christmas.

I'll be around for some 40k action if anyone is available.

I’m out this week. Still down south with family and we’re off to see Star Wars tonight. Have a good one all.

You're on sir. I'll be bringing the Chapter Approved book with me and we can play one of the new missions. I played one of them with Jim last week and it was really neat even though we didn't get a full game in. Really neat mechanics all around with the missions in the new book, and I'm excited to try one out with you. I'll see you around 6 as usual.

Yes indeed we do Jim. After getting my hands on the Chapter Approved book I'm excited to try out one of the new missions or Open War stuff. Whichever makes the marshmallow float on top of your hot cocoa.

Sounds like a plan Corey

Is that a monetary value that we should be shooting for for gifts for the exchange?

I'll be around for 40k tomorrow. Just putting this out here now that I'll probably be picking up the Chapter Approved book for 40k tomorrow night as well and if next week someone would like to try out any of the new missions that are in the Chapter Approved book with me or try out some Narrative Play missions I'll be looking to do that next week.

No DC don't get 2 attack phases like Berzerkers, but what they do get is a strategem that they can use (I believe 1CP) that allows a unit of DC after the first player has been decided but before the first battle round to move a free movement as if it were the movement phase. Therefore, you can get a free 12" plus a D6 advance with a DC unit before the game has even begun, and if you have first turn you are almost guaranteeing a Turn 1 charge with your DC. Also, the Red Thirst is really gross. Some people may dismiss it as not as good as other "Legion/Chapter Traits" but after watching that Batrep I gained a much better appreciation for getting +1 to your wound rolls. There was one instance of Sanguinary Guard charging into a Juggerlord and decapitating him in one round of combat before he even got to swing because they were wounding him on 2s thanks to support from a Sanguinary Priest providing them with a bubble of +1 Str. It was kind of disgusting to watch, since that was with only half the unit actually hitting the Juggerlord. The other half were attacking a wounded Helbrute and they slaughtered him too.