NOW LIVE! Today's the day you meet your new best friend. You don’t have to leave Wolfy behind... In 'Pets & Sidekicks' your companions level up with you!

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Message: <blockquote data-quote="bento" data-source="post: 4448267" data-attributes="member: 36597">I've been looking at C&C:A for a year now (reading reviews on Boardgamergeek.com) and finally picked it up Friday night. Spent a few hours putting stickers on, reading the rules and yesterday afternoon played my first solo walk-through game. Here's my impressions: * Blocks were smaller than I thought they would be. For whatever reason I pictured them to be about twice the size than they really are. * Loved that the vital stats for units were NOT on the blocks. I've played games that use chits and now that I'm getting older, my eyesight isn't as good as it used to be!* Loved that cards propelled the action. When I read reviews for M44 I thought that this would make the game action too restrictive. How could turns based on cards mimic actual combat? It can't, but neither can a lot of mechanics that have been tried over the years.  Now that I've sit down and had five cards to chose from, I actually like how it focuses me on likley action that ought to be taken, rather than putting the onus on me to come up with tactics on my own.* Neutral on combat resolution mechanic. The dice seem a little rock-paper-scissor as in many cases there is only a one-out-of-six chance a hit will occur. This will take more playing to figure out if I like it or not. After it was all together and on the table yesterday my 8 year old son came by and told me "well it doesn't look as boring as I though!" From him that's a great compliment.  Maybe in a couple of weeks I can get some games in with RL competitors.</blockquote>

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