Session Report – 8 September 2010

7 this week, split 4 & 3.

First up on our table was Factory manager, which was last seen late last year. I haven't been bringing it along due to the impression I got that there wasn't that much interest, but recently Mike had indicated that he wanted to play it again. I think I was probably reading too much into remarks by Steve, who is definitely not that keen.

This is a fairly dry game, but with (to me) good theme. We used the new player rule setting the first energy price increase to zero, which was probably just as well as I don't think anyone was really on top of it in this playing, with all either in the position of being new to the game or having sufficiently forgotten too much about it in the long period since the last play. This resulted in nobody managing to achieve earnings above 90, when I can recall figures of 120-150 in previous run outs. I was rather inefficient in storage area on the first turn, but was able to catch up with Dave towards the end of the game. I think I would have been a bit closer on the last turn, if I had done the maths right and made a different buying choice.

Factory Manager 90 mins.
Posn.	Player	Score
1	Dave F	228
2	Dave D	208
3	Mike	184
4	Colin	141

Next was an even older game, Thurn & Taxis, which was played a few times when it first came out and then shelved. I was of the opinion that after a few games this would become predictable, but after not playing for a good length of time, this was not the case here.

Colin suffered due to having to discard a route early on, while Mike and Dave misheard the rule that only the highest value carriage card counted in final scoring and consequently thought they were doing better than they actually were. I had been surprised at Mike making comments as if he thought he was winning, when I was confident that I had the best position. The mistake explained this.

Thurn & Taxis 70 mins.
Posn.	Player	Score
1	Dave D	25
2	Dave F	19
3	Mike	13
4	Colin	2

Over on the other table there were also 2 games played, neither of which I know anything about, these being Viktory II.

Viktory II 90 mins.
Posn.	Player	Score
1	Andy	11
2	Steve H	9
3	Andrew S	6

Followed by Marracash.

Marracash 45 mins.
Posn.	Player	Score
1	Andy	3400
2	Andrew S	3300
3	Steve H	1450