Great weekend with Starwars miniatures!

Last weekend me and my mates went to visit a friend at his new place. Its a very comfortable area and his apartment was on the 4th floor which was the highest floor on the building. After enjoying the view (there were some girls in the swimming pool below us on the ground floor) and helping his sis move the furniture in her room around, we decided to play a game of Starwars minis (which was the whole point of the visit anyway). We played on his veranda which was airy and cool and provided us with a good view. It started to rain at the beginning of the session but the lightning and thunder lent some nice special effects to the game.

There were six of us so it was a classic 3 on 3, rebel alliance vs the empire. The rebel alliance's squad was comprised of all the notables: Obi Wan Kenobi, Luke Skywalker, Han Solo, Chewbaca, Leia, Wedge Antilles, R2D2 and C3P0 with some Fringe help from Dengar and Bosk. The empire team was lead by none other than the Emperor himself, followed by Mara Jade, Darth Vader, Grand Moff Tarkin, General Veers with the added Fringe strength of 4Lom and IG88. It was a great game. The rebels had the strength of numbers but the Empire had more potent characters. In the start it looked like the rebels had the clear advantage but as the game wore in, it steadily grew to the Empire's favour. Crippling the advantages of some of the rebel's power characters and some lucky ambushes led to the ultimate demise of the rebels. As Darth Vader sinks his saber into the last rebel, he uttered the words "You do not know the POWAH of the dark side!".

The man of the match was clearly IG88 with its highly successful supression firing and killing Leia and Wedge in the same round. The great moment of the game and also the turning point was when the Emperor got the jump on Leia, injuring her badly and killing the other rebel units who happened to be near her with his force lightning. After that, the rebels were scattered (as if their morale was low) and the majority of them went for Vader (who ran into a room to force a melee match). Which later became their undoing when they turned around to face the Emperor and ignored Vader.

The most shocking/surprising moment of the game was when friend A was about to throw the dice to determine if he hits the target or not. If he succeeds then the target would be destroyed. Fortunately, he doesn't need a high roll to succeed and at that moment of the game, the kill would benefit the rebels alot. Unfortunately, the randomness of the dice got him and he threw a 2 instead (which meant he missed). The funny thing was, when the dice was rolling and it finally flipped to 2 (it didn't even settle yet), friend B (who was on the rebel team and incidentally sitting beside friend A) literally jumped up and lunged into friend A and shouted "F*** YOU!!!". The funny part was that the number 2(from the dice) haven't even registered in our minds yet and the outburst happened so fast. Friend A was soo surprised that he was speechless for a few seconds. Hahahahaha! 'How fragile the bonds of trust during trying times'. Fragile indeed. Anyway he later apologised for his outburst.

At the end of the day it was a great game. Hope to have more of this sessions in the future.