I got Stoned - A Moonstone Tournament Report

I would recommend going to a Tournament to anyone now. Yes I know it can be a bad experience (40k sometimes with power gamers), but I think you will personally know if the game lends itself to a tournament that will fit your style of play and personality.

For me this whole experience was brilliant. From taking the step to actually signup for entry, forcing me to paint and pick a Troupe, to look at the game in more detail to try and make sure I did ok at the Tournament.

The people involved made a huge difference and I would happily game with them every week if I could.

That being said there are bits of improvements I would like to see for future tournaments.

1. Timing clocks visible, so everyone knew how long was left in the round.
2. Clear rules regarding sudden death, as it was unclear if the game just ended after turn 4, but then when it came to it we were allowed to do sudden death as there was time left on the clock.
3. If timer goes, then maybe allow the current round to complete rather than just the current action, this might remove one player being an idiot and slow playing the last action.

My main concern for Tournament moonstone was the random moonstone deployment mechanism, I felt it was too random to be tournament friendly and could offer too much of an advantage to one opponent over the other. BUT now having played at the Tournament level, the moonstone deployment is a vital part of setting the scene for the story and each game, and makes you have to adjust how you play, which for me is amazing, you have to think each game, you cannot just build a power list and rinse and reapeat and win.

Good players will be able to mitigate bad luck on card draw, make better deployment decisions and better activiations and will win in most cases. BUt the game lends itself to a bit of mayhem and that is perfect for a fun game.

Overall I had a brilliant time and it has enthused me even more about this game.

I want to try new troupes, new ideas, and like I’ve mentioned, my wife agrees. She wants to try new characters or try again to play a character difrernly to see what happens, if a game can capture the imagination of my wife, give me a brilliant weekend and introduce me to amaxing people, then I cannot say a bad word about it.

Hopefully you’ve read this and enjoyed my write up – it’s my first one, so my writing style and content will improve, honest.

But to make sure you follow up on the enthusiasm you are no doubt feeling about this game after reading this, here are some easy to follow links.

Buy Moonstone Merch!

Moonstone the game – click here

Buy Moonstone from Firestorm games – click here

Go enjoy this game, and I will see you at the next Tournament.