Games Played 23 October 2013

10 people this week, games played as follows. I don't think I recall a game of Thurn & Taxis being so one sided as that one.

23/10/2013
Suburbia - 90 Mins.
Posn.	Player	Score
1	Dave F	130
2	Jaime	105
3	Isabel	92
Vegas - 20 Mins.
Posn.	Player	Score
1	Dave F	360000
2	Isabel	340000
3	Jaime	320000
Vegas - 20 Mins.
Posn.	Player	Score
1	Isabel	360000
2	Dave F	360000
3	Jaime	290000
Saint Petersburg - 100 Mins.
Posn.	Player	Score
1	Dave D	142
2	Mark R	123
3	Steve W	109
Thurn & Taxis - 50 Mins.
Posn.	Player	Score
1	Mark R	31
2	Dave D	11
3	Steve W	10
Tzolk'in: The Mayan Calendar - 150 Mins.
Posn.	Player	Score
1	Dave G	68
2	Mark W	40
3	Mike	39
4	Andy T	25

Games Played 16 October 2013

I missed the weekly meeting as I was away for a few days that week, but 11 were there. These results were supplied by Mike and Dave F.

16/10/2013
Ra - 90 Mins.
Posn.	Player	Score
1	Phil	52
2	James S	43
3	Mike	18
China - 45 Mins.
Posn.	Player	Score
1	Mike	38
2	Phil	37
3	James S	36
Navegador - 140 Mins.
Posn.	Player	Score
1	Steve W	102
2	Scott	88
3	Dave G	81
4	Gordon	73
Lords of Waterdeep - 120 Mins.
Posn.	Player	Score
1	Andy S	161
2	Dave F	154
3	Steve H	145
4	Mark W	118
7 Wonders - 40 Mins.
Posn.	Player	Score
1	Andy S	49
2	Mark W	47
3	Dave F	46
4	Steve H	45

Games Played 9 October 2013

15 players this week and Dave C paid an unexpected visit, although not staying to play any games. The evening saw further runouts for the two most played games of the year.

After carrying the same collection of boards around for about a year, I had reshuffled the contents of my Power Grid box and so this evening the game saw play on the China board which is one of my favourites. The fixed order of the early power plants make the game a bit more predicatable until step 3 and the build up is slower as your won't see an end game plant turn up early as often happens with the random appearance of the other boards. This game was notable for featuring a tie for one of the placings as Mike and I finished joint third and the tie breaks were also level.

Full listing of games played is as below.

09/10/2013
Power Grid - 140 Mins.
Posn.	Player	Score
1	Dave G	16
2	John H	15
3	Dave D	15
3	Mike	15
5	Isabel	15
Tzolk'in: The Mayan Calendar - 120 Mins.
Posn.	Player	Score
1	Gordon	67
2	Steve Pe	63
3	Andy T	49
4	Dave F	44
Kingdom Builder - 40 Mins.
Posn.	Player	Score
1	Gordon	68
2	Dave F	61
3	Andy T	42
Strozzi - 80 Mins.
Posn.	Player	Score
1	Steve H	175
2	James S	170
3	Phil	155
4	Jaime	145
5	Mark R	135
6	Steve W	105
7 Wonders - 60 Mins.
Posn.	Player	Score
1	Steve H	65
2	James S	53
3	Steve W	46
4	Mark R	45
5	Phil	45
6	Jaime	40

Games Played 2 October 2013

13 in attendance this week. Lords of Waterdeep got another run out with the expansion and again that seemed to add a fair bit to the play time as Gordon commented on the last post. Also in the news this week farms were built and Tokyo was victim to many attacks by strange monsters.

Meanwhile in Whitechapel, Jack the Ripper continued to baffle the police.

Jacks's Journeys

02/10/2013
Letters from Whitechapel - 150 Mins.
Posn.	Player	Score
1	Dave D	0
2	Steve W	0
2	Phil	0
2	James S	0
Lords of Waterdeep - 160 Mins.
Posn.	Player	Score
1	Dave F	189
2	Steve H	153
3	Gordon	138
4	Andy S	131
5	Mike	128
Agricola - 70 Mins.
Posn.	Player	Score
1	Isabel	37
2	Mark R	34
3	Jaime	32
4	Andy T	16
King of Tokyo - 20 Mins.
Posn.	Player	Score
1	Andy T	0
2	Isabel	0
2	Mark R	0
2	Jaime	0
King of Tokyo - 20 Mins.
Posn.	Player	Score
1	Andy T	0
2	Mark R	0
2	Isabel	0
2	Jaime	0
King of Tokyo - 20 Mins.
Posn.	Player	Score
1	Mark R	0
2	Andy T	0
2	Jaime	0
2	Isabel	0

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