(Fistful of Lead) Snowbrawl!

Christmas Eve has been the high holy day, both secular and religious in this household.  It's usually a rush of last-minute-shopping, half-day at work, and a tone-down traditional Swedish Smorgasbord.  Family gifts are exchanged, and hopefully the kids were exhausted and fell asleep early, as I put together toys in the freezing garage for Christmas morning.  

The kids are too old for all the Christmas morning magic, but the divorce meant that the kids were here the 23rd-25th, so they helped me greatly getting everything set up for the food, while I monitored my ecommerce obligations on Christmas Eve. 

Over an extended lunch, we did get the table set up for a test run of Wiley Games' "Snowbrawl" scenario for Fistful of Lead.  

Feliz Navidad

I probably needed an extra read-through of the new rules, but some impatient teenage girls are just as bad as the impatient pre-school girls I had playing these games, many moons ago.  

We only did two fights, instead of the recommended best out of five.  The snowmen always came out strong, obtaining the snowballs on the board (surprise!) , but the giant Santa heads always seemed to have the speedier guys dash towards the opposing fort, plus they had knack for drawing jokers and subjecting the snowmen (Millie) to random events.  

Since it's a season, not a holiday game, we'll probably take a crack at it a few more times.  It was a great opportunity to use some of the dollar store eraser figures, but I can see gnomes having way too much fun out there.

Snowbrawl is a $1.99 pdf on the Wiley webstore normally, but till the end of the year it's free!