Date: 19th June 2015
Game played: Dead of Winter ( Plaid Hat Games ) BGG Id: 150376

Nine of us this week meant two tables. The group of five opted for Dead of Winter, which I'd asked Felix to bring as I'd not played before. Guy had played and between him and Felix, they managed to explain the rules to Nicky, Andrew and myself. This is a game where you have a potential traitor and a group objective (for the good guys). However, everyone also has a personal objective and only wins if they succeed in accomplishing both. So you sometimes need to weigh up whether to act to help the group objective or hinder that goal to further your personal goal.

In our game, we got to the stage where we agreed to make a mad push for victory but Andrew failed us so, deciding he must be a traitor, we exiled him. It turned out he wasn't a traitor but knew he couldn't complete his personal objective that early so was trying to sacrifice the team. However, despite his efforts, we managed to complete the group objective of stockpiling an extra ten food cards but Nicky didn't manage to complete her objective of collecting one of each item so she joined Andrew in the loser's corner. Happily though, Felix, Guy and I all completed our personal objectives, although mine was touch and go for a while (needing to have a surviving character with two wounds - while three would have killed him), so we all celebrated defeating the zombie hordes.

 
Player
Rating
Score
Position
Winner
Guy
7
1
Felix
8
1
Garry
7
1
Andrew
9
2
Nicky
8
2

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