Oh Lore! or A funny thing happened on the way to the forum

More Borg and Feld on Tuesday (apologies for the fact this post has somehow got out of order) for some very satisfying board gaming and a brief break of the losing streak. We played our first Battlelore scenario to involve, not just lore, but a creature. In this case a large but not terribly powerful spider. I put her to good use before she got killed though and finished the scenario 7-3 (6 banners for the win this week).

After lunch though things went downhill and Dick pummeled away at my right flank (full of panic-stricken goblins) until I barely managed to stop it being a whitewash. Things could have been slightly different if my "Creeping Doom" spell had worked but there we are. That's what this game is like: Sometimes the luck is with you and sometimes against. If you play enough you get the triumphs as well as the disasters. I always enjoy it even when losing. Having said that though, I did find this replay disappointingly brief and I didn't even get to see what Crabro could do with a spider as he didn't bother to move it.

We finished off with another game of Trajan, and although I was initially in the lead (at one point by a considerable margin after a 20 point ship etc) I let this slip away steadily, even failing to prevent a full minus 15 malus after the first quarter. My excuse, if I was to make one, was that my head was gently throbbing and felt as though it was full of sawdust after an ill-advised return to beer drinking in the early hours with another friend. I didn't make the excuse at the time because to be honest I was a bit ashamed of the bad play and anyway Crabro's win was well deserved.