While I realize one can not tell by this blog, but the Williamsburg Legati are still very active. This year has seen some Altar of Freedom games, an increase in some of our boardgaming, an introduction to Blood and Plunder, Guild Ball, and Battlestar Galactica. Chris is excitedly preparing for Rommel.
An unexpected home repair disaster has seen us temporarily convening in a storefront (thanks, Joe) but we expect to return home soon.
Last Thursday saw a return to our seasonal game celebration. We played 7TV. A variation of their Search and Rescue episode starring Department X and Shiva casts, with a special guest appearance of St. Nick himself!
Both sides had 60 some points. The set up was that Santa’s sleigh had crashed/ been shot down over the Greendock area of London. Both Department X and SHIVA were in a race to recover Santa who was the McGuffin for the episode.
SHIVA pulled the “setting the scene” countdown card which allows a piece of scenery to be moved. They used this to great advantage to move the main warehouse in the center of the table enabling Kali to easily capture Santa. This and a failed attack by the single shot rocket of the X Track gave SHIVA’s dastardly plan a very successful head start. The took this advantage and pulled back with much of their force to a lockup in an arch deep in one of their corners. As Chris said, “this was to be their Alamo”.
This did prove to be, however. The episode did seem to begin to sway in Department x’s favour. Hugo Solomon defeated the Guru in a very quick fight. The X commando support by their Xtrack and Pandora King (not Stryker as printed in the comic) made quick work of SHIVA’s minions. It looked like it would, in fact, all come down to a fierce fight for the lockup.
SHIVA, however, had been burning through the countdown cards trying to end the episode early. With luck they got the “PLOT TWIST” allowing them two more Countdown cards, one of which was “Cliffhanger” thereby ending the episode prematurely, with Santa in their clutches. Vince suggested that SHIVA was injecting Santa with the Krampus virus, to turn him evil. Hmm, I do have a Krampus model on the way here, I think I see next years Holiday special!
Until Next Time, Cheers and Happy Holidays!
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