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.

Sunday 14 September 2014

Games Played 3,10 September 2014

OK, time for a quick update on the last couple of weeks. On 3 September, we had 13 in attendance and played 3 games these being, Concordia, Power Grid and Dead of Winter. The following week also 13, this time with 7 games played, Power Grid, San Juan, El Grande, Trajan, Carcassonne, Love Letter and Hanabi (for the first time). Read on for a few more details and the results.

3 September

Power Grid this week was played on the China board. Before the game I was showing around a list with the winning statistics for the various players and Simon had commented that he had yet to win a game of this with us, he then of course, proceeded to win this one.

Dead of Winter seemed to go down well again, despite another loss. That said I think that Steve was of the opinion that the 5 player game here had perhaps too much down time.

Concordia was played for the second week in a row.

03/09/2014
Concordia - 120 Mins.
Posn.PlayerScore
1Scott130
2Gordon127
3Máté122
4Dave F115
Power Grid - 150 Mins.
Posn.PlayerScore
1Simon17
2Dave D15
3Bob15
4Mike12
Dead of Winter: A Crossroads Game - 150 Mins.
Posn.PlayerScore
5Mark W-
5Mark R-
5Steve W-
5Steve H-
5Chris S-

10 September

Power Grid moved this week to Korea, we have now played all but 5 of the published (in English) boards this year. The last time we played this board was in 2011 and I never thought that the dual resource markets seemed to make that much difference to the game. Maybe I was misremembering because it was a significant factor in this game. The game was played with the big plant deck so had a selection of 32 cities and an endgame trigger at 20.

The game was notable for a period of quite a few rounds when there were no decent plants in the market. Steve and Simon were able to pick up plants 25 & 26 early on, while I got the not so good, but not too bad 24, but after that nothing and it was Gordon who lost out, althouhg he eventually managed third place.

The game hinged on the battle at the end for plant 57, powering 9 cities for 3 oil, in retrospect I should have bid Steve up more as he needed the plant to match my capacity,  if I had done so I might have reduced Steve's cash to an extent that I could win the tie break, but it was not to be, I seem to be having quite a few second places in this lately.

I got my win in San Juan with a late bank. This was Simon's first play of the game.

I've recorded the game of Hanabi as it was written down, but I'm not sure of the significance of the 17 score recorded for each player, this being a co-op that I haven't played.

10/09/2014
Power Grid - 120 Mins.
Posn.PlayerScore
1Steve H18
2Dave D18
3Gordon16
4Simon15
San Juan - 45 Mins.
Posn.PlayerScore
1Dave D38
2Steve H36
3Gordon35
4Simon24
El Grande - 120 Mins.
Posn.PlayerScore
1James S122
2Mike104
3Mark W103
4Ian97
5Chris S69
Trajan - 150 Mins.
Posn.PlayerScore
1Dave F146
2Scott119
3Máté86
4Mark R76
Hanabi - 25 Mins.
Posn.PlayerScore
1Mark W17
1Chris S17
1James S17
1Mike17
1Ian17
Carcassonne - 25 Mins.
Posn.PlayerScore
1Scott86
2Dave F77
3Mark R60
Love Letter - 15 Mins.
Posn.PlayerScore
1Mark W3
2Mike2
2Ian2

2 comments:

  1. Honoured as I am to be shown as better than I am, I was at least 20 less points than that in El Grande ^^. I wanted to try dropping back early and seeing where I could get from there, as its' often not fun to be near the front in area control games (Although I probably wouldn't have done overly well anyway, on my first play and all ^^).

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  2. Just checked, it should be 69. I've corrected it now.

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