It was mid-winter and a bit cool outside as we all gathered to play two new untried games. The main game was El Presidente<\/strong>‘s latest production Swashbuckler<\/em> – and we had our buckles well and truly swashed! There was a fair bit of explanation needed before getting under sail, but we eventually got the hang of it. There were some changes suggested which Wayne<\/strong> will be trying to address, but it has promise. My own issue with the game is that players do not start as equals in the land of pirates, so for example my character had 2 attack points and 1 defence point, and I had no “special” ships that could fire a broadside (in effect an extra dice throw) – all this is determined by the cards dealt. On the other hand Matt<\/strong>‘s character had 8 attack points, plus he had a ship that could fire broadsides. Despite this imbalance, I still won somehow!<\/p>\n\n\n\n The backup was another variation on the Uno<\/em> franchise, it was Uno No Mercy<\/em>. It is far more brutal than Uno Flip<\/em>, and we had a severe problem working out the rules. We couldn’t understand why a player being banished if carrying 25 or more cards could end up with a score advantage of zero (remember it’s low scores that win). Perhaps we were supposed to add up the score of the banished 25-card hand? What eventually happened was a historically rare game abandonment! We ditched Uno No Mercy<\/em> and instead played Pass the Pigs<\/em> which I happened to carry in my laptop bag. After much “pigging out” it ended in a draw between Tara<\/strong> and Pete<\/strong>, so we had a pig-off which Tara<\/strong> won convincingly with double Pete<\/strong>‘s score.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Uno shows no mercy, usurped by Pigs It was mid-winter and a bit cool outside as we all gathered to play two new untried games. The main game was El Presidente‘s latest production Swashbuckler – and we had our buckles well and truly swashed! There was a fair bit of explanation needed before getting under … Continue reading “Meeting 15 June 2026”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1822","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-meets"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sbgagames.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1822","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sbgagames.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sbgagames.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sbgagames.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sbgagames.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1822"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.sbgagames.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1822\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1829,"href":"https:\/\/www.sbgagames.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1822\/revisions\/1829"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sbgagames.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sbgagames.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sbgagames.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}