Games I played at Raiders III
TortugaThis is a lovely yet deceptive game, it looks like a draughts crossed with chess type game with turtles, yes turtles! you have to move or jump one turtle get to the home base of your opponent, while avoiding your opponent catching you and turning you over, this renders you immobile until someone turns the turtle back over which creates more turtles for the person rescuing them, it is not obvious who will win until the very end. I played about 4 games with Arnu and lost 3, still great fun.
The Shepherd and his dog.I played this with Arnu too, and it does what it says on the box really, a Shepherd and his dog have to heard the sheep into a pen, if one escapes and gets through the gate in the field it`s all over and the sheep win, I played the shepherd with the dog and I was glad to say the dog was victorious and penned all the sheep, but it wasn`t easy, nice game.
MonasteryThis game looked very complicated to begin with, there are lots things to do and lots of options, the monks in the monastery need to build around the monastery with tiles and gain points to buy more monks to help the cause, letters of the lords prayer need to be purchased to complete a word to gain more points, after playing this first game [played with Arnu pallet Ranger and Zarniwoop]
I actually won, great game
I really would like to play it again now I understand it a little more.
RoboRallyThis is a longstanding favourite of mine, we have played it for years and it never ceases to make me laugh, You need to plan your moves to get from your starting position to a number of flags in order, once you have completed this task you have won ! but their are lots of obstacles you need to avoid or maneuver around, Pits, Pushers, Crushers, Laser fire, Cogs that turn you, Conveyor belts, mud slides, Teleporters, Water [not all on one board of course] and avoid being shot by your opponents as well. I played this with Arnu, Pallet Ranger, Alex and Zarniwoop, after me making it to both flags first and Alex having to leave the game early they played on and Arnu came in second place, well done, good giggle.
PitchcarPlayed about six games of Pitchcar with Arran and was thoroughly beaten in about five of them
this simple race track game is always a winner at Raiders and involves people of all ages.
SamuraiThis is another good game, players were Phil, Zarniwoop, Frog and myself, Phil was the convincing winner of this one.
It`s AliveThis new game is an interesting one, collecting body parts to make your monster come alive, with a few twists in between, you buy or auction the parts you are given on your turn, when someone completes their monster they shout IT`S ALIVE !! and everyone counts up their parts value and their remaining money, because the one who completes first may not end up being the eventual winner, I did not complete my monster first but I won by about 4 points. players were Zarniwoop, Frog, Phil and me.
Guillotine A good quick fill in game that comes out quite often, Pallet Ranger, Zarniwoop Frog and myself were the players and Pallet Ranger was the victor.
MarrakeshThis game is only out on demo at the moment but it is different and very easy for anyone to pick up, you can move the marker 90 degrees and throw the dice to determines how far you move round the board, once stopped you lay a carpet adjacent to you and hopefully cover anyone else's carpet up, if you land on someone else's carpet you pay the owner of that and each adjacent carpet of that colour, the winner is the person with the most money and carpets showing at the end, players were Sally, me, Zarniwoop and Frog, Frog was the eventual winner of this one.
