Eager forum viewers will note that I bought
Conquest of Planet Earth a couple of days ago. I played three games against the Grimlet today.
It's fucking
fantastic. There are a lot of cards and counters to sort out and the "who goes first" thing takes some getting used to, but once you're up and running it's brilliant fun.
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The basic idea is that you move your flying saucers around the gameboard and try to capture locations, which are worth different amounts of "terror points" (get 8 and you win) and have different levels of resistance. I had an "issue" with a small town that led from my landing gameboard (the one my saucers start on) to the main gameboard. It was only a small town, and only had a resistance rating of 1, but I just couldn't get past it. I named it "Bumtown" (although in my head it was called "Cunttown"). Every time I moved a saucer onto the square, I managed to get it shot down. This went on for three consecutive goes, until I decided that I'd had enough, gave myself six action points for my turn (you choose the number of action points you have for your go at the start of each turn) and moved all four of my saucers onto the square at once, finally giving myself enough attack strength to beat stupid Bumtown.
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Much cheering and gloating over the success occurred, and then on his turn the Grimlet dropped an atomic bomb card, destroying all of my saucers and vaporising Bumtown forever, robbing me of my hard-earned (and pitiful) single terror point.
Conquest of Planet Earth is fantastic.