Jared
Jared

Jared

Company, Attack!

LAN Parties may be hard to setup and tedious because of hauling around equipment and hooking up cables but it sure beats playing online against some faceless foe. LS, MR, and myself got together for a little action playing Company of Heroes. WO couldn’t join us because he was resting up. It was a good game, at the end of the evening we were holding our own in 3 vs. 3 against the computer. The computer skill level was expert, hard, and normal (hard/expert?).

Lan party computers

Arena Maximus – Fantasy Ben Hur

We played a new game called Arena Maximus. Think of the chariot race track in the Roman Coliseum with a magical twist. The game isn’t complicated but there are enough simple choices to make it exciting and the turns to pass fairly quickly once the move order is figured out. I’d recommend each person have a copy of the turn order card, someone at boardgamegeek.com make a nice reference card.

I found myself on the war path with terrible blood lust always doing damage to B.E.’s chariot. Actual, let history remember that I was the only one to actual destroy a chariot, the race track did just about everyone else in at least once!

We played two games and each time it was an all out sprint in the last move to finish first.

Arena Maximus Board