Games Played 28 August 2013

12 people this week, although I had to disappear a little early. Three games new to our sessions were played including Trains. I said a few weeks ago after playing Legendary that I felt that "Deck Building"  was an interesting mechanic, still in search of a great game. I'm not going to go as far as to say, yet, that Trains is that great game, but it is certainly the deck builder that I have found most interesting out of the box, with the addition of the board providing a point of conflict for you to interfere with your opponents to the extent that it raised their costs of building without completely blocking them out. I also think that the presence of the board adds a level of theme which I don't see in other games of this type, although others may have different  views on  this.

We played 2 games, which Dave won both of, in fact the order was the same in both cases, I think my mistake in the first game was not buying enough Rail Laying and Station Expansion cards beyond what was in my starting deck and in  the second going too heavy on the rail laying at the start of the game, causing my deck to fill with waste. I had a Subway excavation card early on, which would make the laying very cheap in a monentary sense, but did not stop the waste accumulation. Others had gone for Collaboration cards which did not reduce all the costs, but did mean that they collected less waste. Rachel felt her problems stemmed from not adding enough Train (money cards) to her deck early on.

All the games played

28/08/2013
Trains - 50 Mins.
Posn.	Player	Score
1	Dave F	44
2	Lee	41
3	Dave D	37
4	Rachel	30
Trains - 50 Mins.
Posn.	Player	Score
1	Dave F	50
2	Lee	40
3	Dave D	35
4	Rachel	33
Eight-Minute Empire - 20 Mins.
Posn.	Player	Score
1	Dave F	14
2	Rachel	14
3	Lee	10
Vegas - 20 Mins.
Posn.	Player	Score
1	Lee	500000
2	Rachel	390000
3	Dave F	330000
Lords of Waterdeep - 90 Mins.
Posn.	Player	Score
1	Gordon	134
2	Steve H	121
3	Mark R	116
4	Mike	112
Love Letter - 25 Mins.
Posn.	Player	Score
1	Gordon	3
2	Mike	2
3	Mark R	1
4	Steve H	0
Zombicide - 150 Mins.
Posn.	Player	Score
1	Mark W	0
1	Andy S	0
1	Steve W	0
1	James S	0

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