Ice Rink Risk

I had some friends over today to play Heroscape for a rainy Labor Day.

The board was one I'd built before, but it was a good one.  I call it Ice Rink Risk (after a Mario Party Mini Game).  Here's a picture of the board from VirtualScape:

 

It's designed as a kind of stadium or arena board.  On average, it's a smaller sized board than we usually play on, but it's a good board to get right into action, and as there is so much road tile, in addition to being relatively small, the board has a high level of mobility, too.  It makes for a nice, fast-paced game.  The ice in the center is, of course, the stadium's playing field.  The snow tiles are the stands for spectators.

If you'd like the building plans, let me know and I'll try and post them.

Today, we played a 3v3 game.  Essentially, it was a game of ice "hockey" (or whatever game they might play on ice in Valhalla) gone really badly, where the crowd (as well as the teams) turned violent.  Each team had one player controlling an army on the ice, and two players controlling armies in the stands.  It was a fight to the death.

The game room, as you will see, is our garage. The board in the foreground is the board being prepared for our 3rd Annual Halloween Heroscape Event.  Stay tuned to future entries for details about that board and game.

 

The "paint-under-the-ice" effect is achieved by putting down a normal layer of ice with lava tiles for red paint and shadow tiles for black paint.  Then I put a second layer of ice tiles over the first layer, looking for especially lightly frosted ones to put over the lava and shadow tiles so that the colors show through better.

You may also notice that some of the trees on the actual board are custom, snow-covered trees.  These can be found in most craft stores (Michael's, Hobby Lobby, etc.) around Christmastime.  They come in various sizes to fit the litle decorative village stuff.  OF course, I like to wait until just after Christmas, so I can get them half price.

I had to take a picture of these figures so that I could comment on them here.  This little Micro Corp Agent, controlled by my son Benjamin, survived nine separate attacks by the Iron Golem and a negated Cyprien (each controlled by separate players) with his Stealth Armor.  Nine consecutive times, from nine consecutive attacks, Benjamin rolled a 15 or higher on the d-20!  Cyprien and the Iron Golem's team eventually got the better of the Micro Corp Agent (and won the day), but Benjamin was quite proud (as he should have been) of his agent's long defense.

It was a good game, and a great day.

God bless and happy Heroscaping.