Dracula's America

 

Unfortunately, I was unable to post this brief report in 2023, but it was my last game of 2023. Myself and Luis met at his place for another great game of Dracula's America. We played similar posses as our last game. I dod not remember the name of the scenario but essentially we started with $120 posses in opposite  corners of the terrain which was again a western town.

In one of the central building was the Necronomicon, the winner simply had to control this building after 8 turns. It was a good game with a lot of back and forth. We were able to take out some of our opposing characters but at the end of the game, I believed Luis controlled 3 of the 4 buildings while I just controlled one. A die was thrown and Luis's Skinwalker posse discovered the Necronomicon. It looks like my Nephilim will require a bit more training!

Luis wanted me to point out it was not a good idea for fallen angels to hang out around a brothel.

The real good news is that we are starting a campaign in the New Year which I am much looking forward to, we are organising our posses now and hopefully within the month we will get in our first game.

Dracula's America

 

A little over a week ago myself, Luis and Korrigan gathered at Luis's place for my second game of Dracula's America. This would be the first time my figures would see the table so I was looking forward to the game with some anticipation.

I believe we each played with a base Posse of 7 figures; Luis played the Skinwalker Tribes, Korrigan the Dark Confederacy and myself the Twilight Order. We all had interesting add-ons either through the Summon ability or Hired Guns. I am not sure what exactly everyone had but Luis was able to change a couple of his figures into monsters, Korrigan had a Shade which was able to summon Revenants and I had a Seraphim.

Luis had set up a very nice Western table with plenty of buildings, no swamp this time. This made it quite a bit easier for me to play the game as movement was much less complicated and I could focus more on the base mechanics of the game. I appreciated Luis doing this.

A lot happened during the game so I can really not put together an accurate report but here are some photos.

Overview of the terrain, I started in the foreground while Korrigan started on the left with Luis on the right.

I deployed my Posse in 2 groups.

My Hired Gun was useless, as an Eldritch Investigator.

The approaching Dark Confederacy

Luis's Skinwalkers who actually appear to be Mexicans!

I found this multiple combat quite different in how it is played, there were a lot of somewhat unusual mechanics, like the ability to shoot into it by uninvolved characters. I also never was sure who were the involved figures. Maybe a little complicated for a simplistic set of rules. But I suspect it was me.

I am not sure how many turns we played and the game ended a little earlier than planned so there was no winner. I can say that the game was quite good in that I have a much better grasp of the rules than I had going into the game.

The ruleset is cool and I like the background, the game is quite different than what I have played in the past except for maybe SAGA. This is definitely not a simulation but a game, I suppose that should be self evident as it is Alternate History. I came to appreciate that the mechanics were quite simple and at times one could say simplistic in their application. This is quite novel for me, as certainly most games I play are simulations of historical battles and thus have realistic mechanisms. Certainly, Dracula's America is not that. I have always looked at SAGA as a game as well but with some replication of Dark Age tactics. It is interesting that I have picked up 2 games in the past couple of months that are pure games, but I can say that I enjoy playing them both. My next post will be on my second game of Carnevale, indeed another game but with quite a bit more depth and complexity.

Thanks for hosting the game Luis and the pizza and to Korrigan for joining in.