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.

Monday 10 January 2011

Session Report – 5 January 2011

by Dave D at 22:51
The first week of the New Year and 8 in attendance including Gordon who has not been seen since some time in 2009, maybe he won't stay away so long this time.

The main games of the evening were 2 that haven't been played for some time.

On our table the main event was Union Pacific, which was last played in 2006. I have brought it along on occasion since but seemingly without interest. In this case Andy had acquired a German copy and I was able to jump on it and say Ooh I'd like to play that so getting it on the table.

Things were going well with this one until after the 3rd scoring, when I lost my majorities in Yellow (to Claire) and Green (to Andy), even then I think I may have got a draw if I'd had 1 more turn to invest the tying Green share. Unfortunately the game ended on Claire's turn with the last scoring card, which was the last card in the deck.

Posn.
Player
Score
1
Andy
139
2
Steve H
131
3
Dave D
129
4
Claire
106
After that we played 7 Wonders which I think may see a bit of filler play this year, although I don't know quite how many copies there are knocking around (this one was using Dave F's). I really had not much idea what I was doing although I ended up second with 4 tablet science cards (+1 for my Hanging Gardens wonder) as I had worked out that this should earn a fair number of points. Hope to play again soon, although I'm not sure the game would bear much play as the main game of the evening.

Posn.
Player
Score
1
Andy
65
2
Dave D
53
3
Steve H
47
4
Claire
45
Over on the other table there was Antike (also not played since 2006). I only played this once and that was enough to last me a life time as it came across as a deeply uninteresting game and is precursor to what I consider the most contrived and pointless game mechanism that I can think of in the Rondel.

Posn.
Player
Score
1
Gordon
9
2
Dave F
7
3
Andrew S
6
3
Mike
6
After that there was a quick run out for 2 games of Animal Olympics.

Animal Olympics 5 mins.
Posn.
Player
Score
1
Mike
0
2
Dave F
0
2
Andrew S
0
2
Gordon
0
Animal Olympics 5 mins.
Posn.
Player
Score
1
Gordon
0
2
Dave F
0
2
Andrew S
0
2
Mike
0
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1 comment:

  1. Gordon11 January 2011 at 10:56

    It was lovely to get over and see you all. It had been a while.

    Though Antike has not been played at the club since 2006 it has certainly been played elsewhere. This was actually my 20th playing. It provides an intense experience during the 2 hours a game typically takes. I guess players are each taking upwards of 30 turns during a game so not much in the way of down time. By building 6 temples on the last turn I took the last 2 temple building cards and stole the win before the end game fighting took off.

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