As is now traditional the Wollongong Wargamers skipped one of our December wargames meets in order to get together at the Woonona Bulli RSL for an evening of food, drink, trivia and chat.
Hawaiian shirts were required. Not everyone got the memo.
Ralph did the quiz this year. It was heavily based on the games that have been played at the club over the past twelve months and was written multiple-choice answers. It's all getting a bit sophisticated these days. Peter and I had the joint top scores, but Peter won the tie-break question an so got to take home a big bag of flock and the coveted Golden KV2 trophy. He also has to set next year's quiz. I got a bag of dice as a consolation prize.
After the quiz, and after we had reviewed our game-planning policy for the year, we played ... Top Trumps! The last time I did that was some 45 years ago. Caesar had bought a new pack just for the evening. It was based on tanks, but we never got to grips with how the ratings worked. Back when I played it you would have stats like Speed, Weight, Armour and so forth. Actual measurable numbers. This deck had ratings (Protection Rating, Firepower Rating and so forth) which just seem to have been pulled out of the designer's bum.
So, anyway, this is me complaining about how Top Trumps were better when I were a lad.
So, anyway, this is me complaining about how Top Trumps were better when I were a lad.
And here's a picture of me playing a master-stroke!
Thanks to all who came for a great evening. We have one regular club-meet left in the year.
Pictures by Caesar and Ralph.
Pictures by Caesar and Ralph.
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