Shadows over Camelot

Date: 24-07-2010

Venue: Mage Cafe

Description: We (Phang, Max, ET & me) played a 4 players game of "Shadows over Camelot", with the Traitor variant. All of us enjoy a game with traitor in it and everyone's moves is very suspicious, and it's fun. I'm a total royal knight, no one will doubt it, as well as Phang. Both of us work hand in hand to fight off the Siege Engines & work hard to pursuit all the quests. Max & ET are the suspicious ones, both of them are doing nothing but wasting turns and cards. Max turns out really suspicious near the game end and ET starting to doing okay near the game end, it make us all think that Max is the traitor. So ET used one of her action to accused Max is the traitor, Max reveal his Royalty Card, and he turns out to be the good guy! Man, So who is the traitor? Siege Engines were not the main problem to Camelot but the black swords on the table are starting to look ugly. ET revealed herself as the traitor and turn the final 2 white swords into black and make us lose. She does surprised us but not Max, I think. It was a tense game and we enjoy it so much. Too bad, it's about the closing time for Mage Cafe and we can't start another new round and we called it a day after this game.

Result: Traitor (ET) def Royal Knights (Phang, Max & me)

The game start and problems kept on coming and won't let us rest for one single moment. Intense gameplay!

Siege Engines were one of our problem but we can work it out easily.

Here is the main problem, the black swords.

Yes, this is the traitor to Camelot. Look at her face. Damn!

Shadows over Camelot

Date: 27-06-2010

Venue: Mage Cafe

Description: Phang left after 2 games and Suki join us for the third game. Max join us for the fourth game, a 4P game. Both third and fourth game are played with the Traitor mechanic and it was a blast to us, we enjoy the game so much by accusing the others. In the end, we lose both third and fourth game, which the fourth game is the most controversial game we've played so far. 6 white and black swords were on the table at the end game and the traitor (Max) reveal himself at last and turn 2 white swords into black which makes the Heroes lose. Damn! We just didn't expect Max is the traitor, he covered himself so well during the game. By the way, Suki was the traitor at our third game, which I caught him very soon as he used his King Arthur's special power to exchange an useless "Grail" white card with me. By that time, the Grail Quest are already done and I needed a Fight Card to fight the Siege Engine at Camelot. In the end, we enjoyed the game so much with the Traitor mechanic in play, it was just plain fun. The session will be happening very soon, as soon the World Cup 2010 is over.

End game scores: Traitor def Players in both game

My white knight.

ET's green knight, Sir Gawain.

King Arthur is the traitor!

Fighting Siege Engines at the Camelot.

Grail quest in play.

Me checking out the black card during the Progression of Evil phase.

Max the traitor.

Suki, traitor of our the third game.

ET with the sad face while checking out her white cards on hand.

Alert! Saxon approaching at the beach!

Shadows over Camelot

Date: 27-06-2010

Venue: Mage Cafe

Description: Played "Shadows over Camelot" for the first time with 3 players (Phang, ET & me). We didn't used the "Traitor Variant" to test and be familiar with the rules. We played "Three Brave Knights" variant instead, as the Rule Book suggested. The game is not that interesting I guess, if without the "Traitor" in play, puzzle solving or crisis management mechanic works out way more better with "Pandemic", that means "Shadows over Camelot" is only OK if without the Traitor element. The rules are quite easy to pick up and the game play fast pace & smoothly, and we've tried 2 games of the "Three Brave Knights" variant, which we lose one and won one (cheated a bit). The game is very hard to beat and it's very new and challenging to me.

End game scores:

First game - Game def players (by placing 12 Siege Engines near Camelot)

Second game - Players def game (by placing more white swords than the black when the table is filled with 12 swords)

2 players work together to get the Excalibur sword asap.

We choose to place Siege Engines near Camelot instead of drawing the Black Cards from the deck during the "Progression of Evil" phase, and the Siege Engines are starting to surrounding Camelot very fast.

Not good, black swords are far more than the white.

This is how the board looks like before the end game of our first game. Just one more Siege Engine come in play and we will lose.

This is the board at the almost ending moment at our second game. We won by placing more white swords than the black. Hurray!