OT: Mag Blast

I realize this is off-topic.

Has anyone in this group played Mag Blast? I'm looking for a game to play with
my colleagues during a lunch hour. Could someone give me a quick review of the
game? If you don't think the group would be
interested, you can e-mail your response directly to me.  Thanks.

--Greg

Ok, I'm hoping this come through correctly.

I've played it a lot. Great game for the lunch hour. Games are usually quick
and brutal, and great fun.

Bill

> At 09:56 PM 3/9/00 +0000, you wrote:

OK, so this is a little off-topic, but for the benefit of any
interested...

I have played Mag-Blast on several occasions, and it is a fast, fun
little game.   Each player represents a fleet belonging to a
different race, each of which has some special racial ability. The goal of the
game is to be the last player with an intact flagship. Flagships have no
offensive ability, but are defended by your surrounding fleet of ships (each
player starts with 4 ships)

Your fleet area is divided into 4 zones (think north, south, east and west)
around your flagship. Ships in the north zone can attack ships in ANY player's
north zone, but ONLY that zone. To attack a
flagship you must be able to attack an enemy zone that has _no_
defending ships in it.

There a 3 types of weapons, which deliver 1,3,and 5 pts of damage. Different
ship classes are capable of using different weapons.

AND NOW THE BEST? PART

The subtitle of Mag-Blast is "Screaming Space Battles"

The rules state that whenever you perform an attack on an enemy ship,
you must make some kind of sound effect.  Your choice.  Zap, Ka-pow,
clank, bang, ka-zot, whatever.  If you forget to make a sound effect,
and then move on to another action, your attack fails and is discarded. Rules
like this ensure that gamers continue to get weird looks from everyone around
us.

But it really is a run little game.

> I realize this is off-topic.

I love this game, but...

Its 2-6 players may be great, but it IS an elimination game, with the
final two occasionally battling on for quite some time. I wouldn't call it
often, but a
good over-lunch game works best if you can keep everyone involved until
the end of the game.

Even with bridge, the 'dummy' player's involved to the point of sharing the
score.

That said, tis fun, and you should at least give it a go!

The_Beast