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Message: <blockquote data-quote="MerricB" data-source="post: 5973541" data-attributes="member: 3586">I played two games of Dungeon Command on Wednesday evening, taking the Cormyr force both times. The first game was against Sarah, and we played a fast game of about 30 minutes. Most of my other games have been more in the range of 50-60 minutes, but Sarah and I have played a wide range of games together and she's very good at picking up new rules.Our Dungeon Command games have generally followed a particular pattern: one player gets an early advantage, and then the other player - who is able to play fresh creatures - is able to come back into the game. There have been exceptions to this, mainly when I've gained a position that my opponent hasn't been able to breach, but it actually makes the game very enjoyable: you rarely feel like you're out of the game.The big move this game was that I was able to play my Human Ranger "Behind Enemy Lines", bring it back to my starting area, and thus gain 3 morale (while killing a couple of Shaun's creatures on the way). This gave me the boost I needed to win.The second game was against Shaun (who has now bought the game based on this play). I, again, had the early advantage, and all was looking pretty good when I sent my Copper Dragon off in search of easy kills.It didn't find any - instead it found three of Shaun's creatures ganging up to (first) tap it, then hit it with a Sneak Attack for 100 damage, and finally doing 20 damage with a final attack to eliminate it. I hadn't seen that coming, and it was great! I'd been cocky in leaving the dragon unsupported, and Shaun had taken advantage of that.I had to play more conservatively for the rest of the game. Shaun gained a lot of morale from keeping some of his creatures looking for treasure, and used the extra morale to save his Umber Hulk from dying: he'd cower it and lose morale rather than take the hit. This was at its best when I used an attack that did 30 damage and untapped my creature... if I dealt damage with the attack. Cowering negated the untapping, and the Umber Hulk dealt a lot of damage to my forces in return.Eventually, I was down to one morale whilst Shaun remained on five - the game was very much in his favour, but I was able to play a "Shove Aside" card to slide my War Wizard three squares in the right direction (normally, the card is used on the opponent's creatures). This allowed me to reach Shaun's very damaged Drider and slay it. With one other smaller creature in range, that was enough to win the game. Just. With one morale point left!I don't subscribe to the theory that this game doesn't have tension: the more I play it, the more I am liking it. Not knowing what cards are in your opponent's hand requires thinking play, as does the entire business of manoeuvring about the map. Initial games might have played as "charge into battle and attack", but the game rewards more subtle play than that. I still haven't been able to test the warband-building aspect of the game, that should occur this weekend. My full review of the game will appear early next week.</blockquote>

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