Date: 28th January 2011
Game played: Resistance, The ( Indie Boards & Cards ) BGG Id: 41114

Our next game was my Game of the Month for December but it was the first time we had played it at the club. The Resistance is a social deduction game where, with six players, the four resistance operatives are trying to successfully complete three out of five missions while two spies are trying to sabotage those missions. Each mission starts with someone proposing who should be on the mission team and then everyone voting whether or not to agree to that team. If the team gets voted down, the next person gets to propose a team until a majority of players votes in favour of a particular team. Once the team has been established, each team member secretly plays a card for the mission to succeed or fail, with a single fail card meaning the mission is unsuccessful. Once three missions have succeeded or three failed, the game ends with a win for either all resistance players or for all spies.

The game came down to the very last mission and after a couple of mission teams had been proposed and declined, it was down to me to choose a team. Now, it has to be said that Mark W had appeared to be somewhat confused all the way through the game and had voted against the successful mission team in the fourth round. So when I proposed a dream team of myself and the three Marks, Nige was quick to point this out to me. However, after careful reflection, I explained that a strong team not only needed brains, quick wits and brawn but also the token bone-head and continued with my original proposal - mainly because I was confident of having worked out that Nige was a spy on the third round. And so it was that the mission was successful and the resistance triumphed.

I really like this game and Nige seemed equally impressed. It plays with between five and ten players and I'm sure the game will work differently with different numbers of players. However, it won't suit everyone and Guy rated it quite low as it wasn't his kind of game.

 
Player
Rating
Score
Position
Winner
Mark G
7
3
1
Mark K
6
3
1
Mark W
7
3
1
Garry
8
3
1
Guy
4
2
2
Nige
8
2
2

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