Games Played 25 September 2013

Down to 6 this week. I understand that there was trouble on the M5, which caused at least one to turn back. Games played as below.

I think I'm starting to see that in Trains, you need to delay serious rail laying on the board and build up a few cards, both action and money. If you don't then the early accumulation of waste will clog up your deck right from the start and seriously slow later progress. Infiltration went badly for all with the activation of NPCs inside the building, pushing the proximity dial up far to quickly so no-one was able to make it to the exit.

25/09/2013
Trains - 75 Mins.
Posn.	Player	Score
1	Dave D	45
2	James S	43
3	Mike	32
Infiltration - 45 Mins.
Posn.	Player	Score
3	Dave D	0
3	James S	0
3	Mike	0
Lords of Waterdeep - 120 Mins.
Posn.	Player	Score
1	Dave F	161
2	Steve H	149
3	Andy T	145
Eight-Minute Empire - 20 Mins.
Posn.	Player	Score
1	Dave F	18
2	Steve H	16
3	Andy T	11

Full Details for September 2013

Games Played 18 September 2013

10 in attendance this week, including 2 more newcomers in Steve & Sayaka. According to my records a total of 31 different people have attended our meetings so far this year, 28 of whom have been more than once.

The main games were the two most played of the year, that is Tzolk'in and Power Grid. Power Grid was played on the Northern Europe board omitting Finland, it was a 5 player game, although Steve S & Sayaka played as a team. The game had a slow beginning with several high value plants making it into the market early (including 31,32,33), these were bought but the expenditure prevented fast expansion by the buying players. The game was brought to a premature end by Dave (who didn't seem to think he would be in with a chance had the game been allowed to continue), but I only needed to connect one city to match him and won on the money tie break by a fair margin. It seemed strange that I had only bought 3 plants and still had #6 in service (6 is viable on this board with Trash starting at 5, while Oil and Coal both start at 3.

18/09/2013
Power Grid - 120 Mins.
Posn.	Player	Score
1	Dave D	11
2	Dave F	11
3	Steve S	10
4	Scott	10
5	James S	10
King of Tokyo - 40 Mins.
Posn.	Player	Score
1	Steve S	20
2	Dave F	12
2	Scott	12
4	Dave D	9
5	James S	0
5	Sayaka	0
Tzolk'in: The Mayan Calendar - 160 Mins.
Posn.	Player	Score
1	Dave G	60
2	Mike	48
3	Steve W	47
4	Gordon	37

Games Played 11 September 2013

14 this week and these were the games played. I seem to be getting the hang of Trains and Love Letter seems to be an inoffensive enough filler, being at heart a simple deduction game and I like deduction games.

11/09/2013
Trains - 60 Mins.
Posn.	Player	Score
1	Steve Pe	45
2	Dave D	39
3	Mike	30
4	Mark R	24
Trains - 40 Mins.
Posn.	Player	Score
1	Dave D	39
2	Mike	34
3	Steve Pe	28
4	Mark R	25
Love Letter - 20 Mins.
Posn.	Player	Score
1	Dave D	3
2	Mike	2
2	Mark R	2
4	Steve Pe	0
Keyflower - 140 Mins.
Posn.	Player	Score
1	Andy T	62
2	Steve H	60
3	Dave F	55
4	Gordon	47
5	James S	39
Lords of Waterdeep - 90 Mins.
Posn.	Player	Score
1	Steve W	171
2	Mark W	114
3	Andy S	108
4	Dave G	95
5	Scott	93
Sushizock im Gockelwok - 20 Mins.
Posn.	Player	Score
1	Scott	8
2	Dave G	6
3	Andy S	3
4	Mark W	2
5	Steve W	-7
Sushizock im Gockelwok - 20 Mins.
Posn.	Player	Score
1	Dave G	7
2	Andy S	4
2	Steve W	4
4	Scott	1
5	Mark W	-1

Games Played 4 September 2013

10 people split over 3 tables this week, playing 6 games in total. My personal experience was another game of trains, making 3 games and 3 third places. I do like this game but I'm beginning to wonder whether I'm any good at it (mind you the second thing could probably be said for deck builders in general). The other was a strange game of Ra, all epochs seemingly ended very quickly by the pace of Ra appearance. It felt nice to win this one on the final highest value sun count, having lost 4 points in the first epoch.

04/09/2013
Trains - 60 Mins.
Posn.	Player	Score
1	Steve H	35
2	Paul C	32
3	Dave D	27
4	Mark W	24
Ra - 45 Mins.
Posn.	Player	Score
1	Dave D	30
2	Mark W	27
3	Paul C	26
4	Steve H	22
Citadels - 50 Mins.
Posn.	Player	Score
1	Isabel	35
2	Jaime	31
3	Mike	27
China - 45 Mins.
Posn.	Player	Score
1	Mike	72
2	Jaime	45
3	Isabel	38
The Castles of Burgundy - 120 Mins.
Posn.	Player	Score
1	Steve W	198
2	Gordon	182
3	Dave F	180
Sushizock im Gockelwok - 20 Mins.
Posn.	Player	Score
1	Steve W	6
2	Dave F	1
3	Gordon	-2