The Games We Play

The Games We Play

A repository of reports on the Wednesday night sessions of the club and anything else related to the club or boardgaming in general, which may be of interest to anyone who may be passing by.

Thursday 4 June 2009

Catch Up – May 2009


More catching up
6 May
6 players, I believe Dave & Ben had another Monsterpocalypse session.
Posn.
Player
Score
1
Mike
90
2
Andy
89
3
Steve H
84
4
Dave D
82
I was surprised at this result, I and I think the others thought I was doing quite well, but the reality turned out a bit differently.
Posn.
Player
Score
1
Andy
29
2
Mike
28
3
Steve H
27
4
Dave D
23
Andy & I went for gardens and split them 6 each, I ended up on 39 cards, 1 short of 6 extra points.
13 May
5 players
Posn.
Player
Score
1
Paul
14+
2
Dave D
14
3
Mike
13
4
Steve H
12
5
Steve Pe
11
Played on the Central Europe map
Steve H & I then left.
Posn.
Player
Score
1
Mike
8
2
Steve Pe
4
3
Gordon
3

 

20 May
9 players, we welcomed Donald for the first time.
Posn.
Player
Score
1
Gordon
625
2
Dave D
589
3
Donald
569
4
Steve P
549
Interesting game of resource mining on an alien planet. It has a very nice resource market mechanism, although perhaps too many auctions for my taste. The pieces are very nice, although I do think that the board is one of the ugliest I have seen.
Posn.
Player
Score
1
Dave C
16
2
Steve H
14+
3
Mike
14
4
Andy
12
5
Ben C
6
I know Dave & Steve have been wanting to get this on the table for some time and they finally had a chance this week.
27 May
4 players plus Dave running Corporation in the same room having been thrown out of the bar due to the Champions League final.
Posn.
Player
Score
1
Steve H
20
2
Gordon
17
3
Dave D
15
4
Donald
11
This was played on the German map with large power plant deck, so there were 32 cities in the game and the end game trigger was 20. 3 of the 5 plants thrown out randomly at the beginning were garbage plants, so this resulted in big demand for Coal & Oil. As has been common this month I had a bad game, but I should really have had second place at the end. I spotted that I could deny Donald the Oil he needed and bought enough to do this one the last turn, but I missed that I could screw Steve in the same way by buying some more. Gordon could have ended the game at that point and would have had the victory with me second. I blame all the noise coming from the other table.
Power Grid now moves back to the number 2 game so far this year, but I can't see it overtaking Battlestar Galactica.

3 comments:

  1. 'I believe Dave & Ben had another Monsterpocalypse session.'

    We did, and I got squished again

    Maybe I'm not cut out to be a monster

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  2. 'I blame all the noise coming from the other table.'
    Hey, don't blame us. This was an investigative Mission and was relatively quiet; except for the bit when they were getting the crap kicked out of them (overconfidence see ...)

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  3. This is the first game of Power Grid I have played for 18 months and I have really missed it. Fantastically tense game. The new boy Donald was the real star this time. He was robbed of victory when Dave Dastardly brought up all the oil.

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