30 July 2016

July Update

What a crazy month it has been.  Amongst a range of work and work related travel, I managed to sneak in a week of holidays, travelling down to Melbourne with the Lad.  While there we caught up with long time gaming buddies Pete and Ken.  While at Ken's awesome Man Pad we sat down with the big box game Fortune and Glory.


Fortune and Glory is quite a fun game of classic pulp action: Indiana Jones, The Mummy, The Phantom etc.  We played a competitive version of the game (think Indiana Jones vs the French archeologist Belloch in Raiders of the Lost Arc) though there are rules for playing cooperatively to find the Secret Nazi base and other cool stuff like that


Naturally, cheesy quotes were a must on every turn (and every time sometime discovered a Nazi enemy, there were naturally obligated to say "Nazis. I hate these guys")

A fun game- not complex and with lots of great components in the massive box.  Because of its different modes and the way that different cards get put together to form the quests, it has a lot of deployability.

Highly recommended if you like Pulp action and this is the sort of game you can play for a few hours while chatting and enjoying a few adult beverages.  I understand there are a few expansions too, but I haven't seen those.

More detail here:
https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/95103/fortune-and-glory-cliffhanger-game

8 comments:

  1. Now that looks like seriously good fun, I might have tp pop that down on my Christmas wish list. Those look like Holy Grail hunting Action Men in that cupboard - wow!

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    1. Yeah, as a lifelong bachelor Ken's whole house is one bog Man Cave that most of us can only drool over!

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  2. Apparently Yeti attacks can occur in Qld! Whoda thunk it?

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    1. "Beautiful one day - Yetis the next!"
      Must have even State of Origin time!

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  3. It's been on the wishlist for a while but you've bumped it up to the top! Looks great!

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  4. Looks like a perfect trip for you and the lad.

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