A Bundle Of Ones.

Wednesday 9th January

                                              Second outing for Carnevale this evening and I must admit it is growing on me apart from the very delicate figures that come with the game.I suppose that with a better understanding of the gameplay and the rules that was to be expected.There was only the two of us this evening so it turned out to be a slugfest between two rival gangs.Colin Jack took charge of the Elite gang against my gang of Patricians.

Venice shuffled about.

With a new bridge(Sigh)

Having a chit chat-actually they are Doctor Who Clockwork robots.

And yet another Clockwork robot.

                                                The two gangs were divvied out and my gang contained a few metal figures to complement the remainder of my gang who were all resin figures.The Venitian scenery had been changed in order to fit in some newly acquired buildings and bridges.We also intended to try out a few more rules mainly flying and jumping from scenery to scenery.

Heading into town.

The opposition.

                                                               The first turn as usual turned out to be a turn of movement in order to get the gangs into fighting range.The majority of my gang headed into the centre of town in order to confront Colin's gang whilst my noble intended to test his athletic ability by jumping in leaps and bounds or more exactly ship to shore.This didn't go quite to plan as he failed his first jump and ended up clinging on to the stern of the ship hoping nobody seen his attempt.Wrong !This gave Colin the opportunity to advance with his own noble supported by his two female companions-if you could call them that.One of the female characters was a Strige capable of flight and after her initial reluctance to fly ended up eventually bouncing from one ship's mast to another.The other one who was another Srigoi(great names)who ambled slowly towards her noble in order to support him.

Made it by the skin of his teeth.

Colin's vamparic female.

And his other scary female.

                                         Meanwhile further in towards the centre of town Colin's Varcolac which in essence was just an f'g big werewolf came bounding over the bridge and headed straight for my Barnabotti character who was a sword armed masked 2nd tier noble and who  ended up failing a fear test before fighting with the werewolf.Not a good start.My swordsman managed to keep him at bay helped a very bad run of ones on Colin's dice which was to be the norm for the evening.Even when Dave O'Brien is not around physically his dice rolls still leave their mark.Not that I was complaining.
My moon character who was a very nice flighty female jumped straight off an adjoining building straight into this scuffle and managed to turn the tide in this fight.

"Ahoo!"" Werewolves of Venice!"

"Oh s**t!"

Moon to the rescue.

                                              My other three characters who were members of the town guard found themselves one after another and eventually all together in a fight with one of Colin's characters who was classed as New Born albeit born a vampire.This vamparic character was kept well at bay by my town guard who were all as is usual in Colin Jack's world female and well endowed.

Whilst my gallant swordsman cowers behind a well.

Girls who kick ass

and take names.

                                                  After we had played two turns we headed over to the Garvald Inn for some sustenance in the form of ale and pizza.We were 50% lucky as the ale was available but as the pizza oven hadn't been turned on we settled for some freshly made fish and chips.

"Don't rock the boat baby!"

Two's company.

And four is definitely a crowd.

                                                              The next turn started off with Colin's noble and his two female companions making their way onto the boat in order to do away with my noble but due to a lot of luck and Colin's persistence in rolling ones on his dice my noble hung on even when he couldn't disengage himself.Colin's bouncing female vampire baddy came bounding across the top of the boat's masts but still couldn't help in the demise of my noble.He eventually disengaged with the help of a backward flip and a short retreat.This gave Colin the chance to follow up with his noble but with no success usually due to the abundance of ones Colin was rolling.

A backward flip and he's aff!

But not far enough.

                                                        One the other side of town my Moon character was holding her own against the werewolf and picking away at his life.After my Barnabotti character had finished cowering behind a drain he decided to get back into the fight and between himself and Moon managed to dispatch the werewolf.Obviously a lot of Silver was involved.This gave my female guards the opportunity to deal with Colin's New Born vampire and eventually after some prodding with bayonets he went the same way as the werewolf.

Crossbow of mediocrity.

Girl's on top.

                                                                      Colin went for his last chance of saving victory from the jaws of defeat by sending his noble after my noble in order to get some revenge but even when he caught up with my retiring noble his dice rolling continued to let him down and after a failure to wound my noble found his own noble subject to demise at the hands of my victorious noble who was actually about to be joined by two of his own allies.

The End

The End-Part Two.

Definitely The End

                                                                     A very good game due to the fact that we are now starting to comprehend the gameplay.The next time we intend to introduce beasts and magic.
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A couple of beuatiful  bizarre figs -only in Colin's world