F:AT Thursday

On the bridge of a disc shaped interstellar craft, a legion of pods can be seen descending onto an unsuspecting world. The days of the earthmen are numbered but for four observers this matters not. They have not come for global domination. They have come for boardgames and boardgames they shall have. It's F:AT Thursday.

First up was a game of Invasion from Outer Space: The Martian Game, Perhaps not the most popular of Flying Frog's B-movie themed games but certainly the one I like best. Engineer Al and Uba Rose teamed up as the puny humans while Josh and I were the conquest hungry martians. We played the Kill Kill Kill scenario. Ok I don't remember what the real name of it was but the earthlings had to kill 20 martians before time ran out. The Martians had to kill two humans to win.

The earthlings were taking it on the chin coming out of the gate. The Human Cannonball decided he would shoot himself into a veritable sea of glass domed soldiers of the red planet. He did some middling damage until Kang, that is Josh, disintegrated the fuck out of him with a barrage of ray guns spewing death.

Taking it in stride, the humans began to rally. The dancing bear had girded his loins with his combat too-too and was slapping down the green skinned invaders while the contortionist was skewering them on the prongs of her handy and deadly pitchfork. 12 noble men from mars fell.

Kodos, that is I, then brought the pain in the form of The Zard Beast! Our hulking brute fueled by rage and driven by hate rampaged across the carnival grounds until he was able to rip the pistol wielding sharp shooter in twain.

A big big win for the Martians.

Then we played a game of Nexus Ops which continues to be awesome and one of the great "dudes on a map" game. I, having no concept of strategy or forward thinking was able to accomplish what is scientifically known as "jack fuck-all". However the others, who have some skill at thinking were all in contention. It looked like Engineer Al was about to sweep to victory but Josh had a fantastic turn and put four victory points down on the table and won the game.

Josh is now king but I take solace in the fact that he is the king of a crummy wasteland of a planet.