In our third game of Nemisis Zoe was the Scout and I was Soldier. I achieve my objective, heroically dying when the ship blew up after I sent a signal telling the authorities it was infected. Zoe escaped, but failed to send the ship to Mars, seeing how it blew up and everything.
Hard work with two players and I am sure we did a few things wrong, but fun and a joy to play with my daughter.
Zoe and I got in another game of this today. Took around two hours and we were much quicker than before (it helped that I had now read the rules). This game is a lot of fun, but very hard to win. Zoe was the Scout and I was the Soldier. I was a rotten shot! Zoe got slimed and spent an inordinate amount of time looking for clean clothes! Just as we were starting to make progress the aliens, eh intruders, started appearing. Then fires broke out. Then the alien queen took a liking to me - result I died. Then the fires spread. Result ship blows up. As it was it was just about to go into hyperspace and none of use were safe. Plus the destruct sequence was underway. Engines unknown, but destination earth!
My daughter told me she had played this game with her friends and really enjoyed. Thanks to Tactics here in Perth I was able to source a copy super quick. Then it was just a matter of finding some time to play. Our first game was a bit of a challenge in not knowing the rules etc, but it played well, provided you remembered that you were in an alien (hint hint) infected space-hulk (hint hint). Zoe's character was the maintenance and and was intent on collecting shiny things (didn't happen). I was the commander and wanted to send off a signal and find peace in hibernation.
We fought off a few intruders, survived some wounds, got covered in slime (well one of us), both got infected and died, just as the game was coming to a close.
Now to play again.
Whoops, forgot to publish this. Game took place around 20 January.
