The Second Night The Reindeer Died

In the New Year, I repeated my 7TV Christmas game and I got to play as the Nice Listers against David and John playing the Naughty Listers.

Casts, playing area and scenario as previously described here.

After deploying on their respective table edges, the Heroes rushed out to try and intimidate the Villains.

The Villains responded by coming forward, taking a bit more advantage of the sparse cover available.  In their second turn, the Nice Listers nabbed three presents, shot an Evil Elf and wounded Jack Frost.

The Naughty Listers then picked up a present, restored Jack to full health, and killed a Good Elf who had attempted to hold the North Pole on his own.  A ferocious Yeti attack failed to inflict any damage but the Villains gained a point for occupying the North Pole.

On the left flank, a pair of wolves engaged a Nutcracker Soldier.  However, he played his Toy Soldiers prop card and two reinforcements joined him and they saw off the wolves quickly before disappearing back into the woods.

On the other flank, the soldiers were immobilised and weakened by Jack Frost before the Polar Bear came to their rescue.  However, in failing to count the Script Cards, the Heroes missed their chance to take the North Pole and the Villains gained another victory point.

Then Lee Majors got stuck into the action firing his minigun into a gathering of Snowmen, managing to miss every single one of them.  Despite that drawback, Lee decided to Steal the Scene and successfully shot Evil Santa, who had just been revealed when a piece of wobbly scenery he was hiding behind collapsed to the side.

Luckily for the Villains, the next script card saw Lee Majors stunned but despite lying on the ground unconscious, he survived a vicious attack from Evil Santa.

Unluckily for the Villains, the following script card saw Evil Santa captured by the Heroes, who piled all their nearby figures onto the North Pole.  In the last turn, Evil Santa managed to evade his captor and his colleagues rushed the North Pole, outnumbering the Heroes to get one more victory point.

The Heroes had recovered four presents and the Villains only two, but they had managed to hold the North Pole at the end of each of the three acts, the 5-4 result giving them a Minor Victory.

A second win for the Naughty Listers. Fingers crossed the Heroes do better next Christmas!