Today’s waypoint is a milestone.
My kids and I played a very basic game of Heroscape last Sunday, and then yesterday, we tried a short game of Heroclix. I was just testing the waters to see if the guys – especially my 6-year-old, Cartographer – were ready. Cartographer is off school this week for Fall Break, so I figured this would be a good time to bust out all this game stuff I’ve had sitting in my closet for years. Well, C-man proved totally ready. The Heroclix thing with the clix dials and the superpowers and all that stuff totally grabbed him. He got it, and he liked it.
Today after we dropped our 3-year-old, WildLion, off at preschool, C-man asked if we could play Heroclix when we got home – but he thought it would be cool to use the HeroSCAPE terrain pieces with the HeroCLIX figures. So, together we built a cool 3-D play area, then started choosing our hero teams. Cartographer – with no prompting or input from me – chose a team of Batman, Robin, Batgirl, Huntress, Black Canary, and Blue Beetle. I was impressed with his Gotham-themed core team, so I naturally went with a team full of Bat-villains: Joker, Harley Quinn, Poison Ivy, Catwoman, Riddler, and Penguin.
I started the game by angling for high ground with Riddler, who has a good ranged attack, and throwing Joker right at his rival mano-a-mano.
I’m not so good at strategy games. I admit it. But I was playing a six-year-old kid who’d only played once before.
But his math-wiz spatial-cognition brain totally grokked the game, and he whupped me. He really, really whupped me.
And I was SOOOO happy about it.
C-man gets gaming, and he likes it. I’ve got a competent gamer on my hands.
Pride Swelleth Over!
Nice!