Colonial Twilight

Game of Colonial Twilight today with Stephen.
His first time with game and COIN system but was very easy to teach the mechanics although deliberating over and explaining options takes a while.
He took FLM and I the French.
We played the Full War scenario but it ended on 3rd Propaganda card as FLN had 31 vps
French suffered as 1st propaganda card took a full 11 cards to appear.
FLN then got a very good event card Peace Talks which stops FLN attacks but more importantly also French Assaults.
He also got Taleb the Bomb Maker which allows Terror attacks in the 3 cities for no Resource spend.
Once he got FLN pieces in then he could continually inflict terror and Neutralise city thereby reducing my VPs.
Without assault very tough to combat.
FLN also managed to get all their Bases on board
Think French need to utilise Garrison action more than I did but tough to do all you want of course.

Great game this so many options and decisions to make every turn.

More board wargaming

Played several board wargames this week (to detriment of figure painting !).











Couple of solo (rule learning) run throughs of Colonial Twilight (playing this one face to face on Wednesday) and Commands & Colors Napoleonic (which I have had for awhile but never blooded).

Also played Hitlers Third Reich and Undaunted Normandy with my Dad.

Two games of HTR that both turned out as Allied wins pretty quickly with Fall Of Berlin and failed recapture attempts.
Love the speed of play of this wee gem.

Then a full 4 scenarios of Undaunted played with Machine Guns and Mortars both making appearances.
Another very slick game system with just enough WW2 flavour to bring us back to it.
Nothing approaching depth of other tactical games but very fast playing and pure fun.

Colonial Twilight a win for FLN this time

Another outing of Colonial Twilight with my Dad this time I played as FLN against French.

Another cracking game with things extremely close at one point.

French were in winning position by Propaganda card just would not appear for them and FLN managed to whittle their score down to below auto-win margin (35) just as Propaganda card finally appeared.

FLN then cranked up their own score to their minimum winning score (30) before French could thwart them as when final Propaganda card appeared they won the game.

Think if Dad had have been more aggressive with his French Elite units he could have wiped out a few more of my FLN havens and Bases reducing my Victory points but you just cannot do everything you want in this game.

Love the COIN system so many decisions to make and trade offs between using Events, performing OPs whilst trying to stop enemy doing same.

Colonial Twilight first play

Having been enticed by the COIN system with Fire In The Lake I acquired Colonial Twilight mainly due to it being a 2 player version and the subject matter.
Managed to get a run out with it with my a Dad.
He took the FLN and I the French and another hugely enjoyable game it was.
Of course similar system to FITL but more playable with two unsurprisingly and with several nuances for the different situation.
A lot of decisions to make again and never sure (especially as new to us) what is best option regarding playing the card Events or conducting Operations and Special Activities combined with the initiative Track indicating who has first dibs on cards or actions each turn.
I managed to run out winner with French after a couple of fortuitous events coupled with a spending spree of resources to boost my Support levels in the cities just in time for a Propaganda card to appear and give me auto-win.
Great stuff.