Haven't been feeling so well so wasn't in the mood to write anything up but I will try to tackle it as best I can.
First game of the evening was "A Touch of Evil" hosted by Marc. We had 5 players (Ran, Ed, Bob, Marc and myself) and played the competitive version rather than cooperative. I had played a coop game earlier in the week and I was not horribly impressed although we did get a couple rules wrong and had the "wild card" character Isabella in the mix. I call her a wild card due to the fact that she can either be very weak or very strong. None of the other characters are that way inherently on their own - give her 10+ investigation and she is an unstoppable force. Anyway I was anxious to try a competitive - and Isabella didn't get drawn so I didn't get to see if she became more balanced in the competitive game. We played the advanced rules. I was in an odd move this evening and not really in the mood for serious gaming. When I say that I mean I wasn't necessarily in the mood to WIN - I was there to relax and enjoy some games and have a good time. Due to this mood I took some chances I probably shouldn't have (taking on some minions where I really wasn't at an advantage) and suffered due to poor dice rolls. In every case I lost to the minion, which made me lose my investigation that I had just obtained. I pretty much sat on 4 or less investigation the entire game, which doesn't allow for you to look at town secrets OR locate the bad guy. I did get some good equipement in the outer areas though and had a blunderbuss and two rifles. At the time the first boss encounter occured I actually had 10 combat. It just didn't do me any good because I couldn't locate the boss to take him on. Marc's wife was on the way so I wasn't as mean as I could have been when Bob went into the final battle with Dracula. Had we had some more time I think we could have caused him to lose. As it was Bob won just as she came into the store. This is a good competitive game - looking forward to trying it again. I imagine Ran will judge it poorly due to the fact that the board wasn't very easy to read and there was a lot of text ;) During our game both Nates and Andrew walked in. They started up a second game of Touch of Evil. I think they played a cooperative game and won. While that game was finishing up we played a quick game of Red Dragon Inn (minus Marc who left). This game fit my mood perfectly since I really wasn't out to win. There really isn't much strategy to this game as chance plays a MAJOR factor in how well you do as well as what the OTHER players decide to do. You could simply be at the end of a "group think" round where all three other players decide to get you insanely drunk, or they ignore you and go for another. You simply can't go into this game with enough ability to win. It is, plain and simple, probably a lot like Galaxy Trucker where you are at the whims of chance - and you have to play the game with that in mind. It is in the playing that is fun, not the winning. There was plenty of smack talk and we had a good time. We wrapped up at the same time as the other Touch of Evil and Andrew needed to play a game for a report in school so Ed, Andrew, Nate and I played a game of Taj Mahal. The other group split off and played a game of Witches Brew, joined by someone else that had come into the store to play along with his girlfriend (I never caught the name). It is a good thing I was in the mood I was because I totally bit it in Taj Mahal. I got the first location and decided to save my cards for certain strategic rounds - but it was a gamble I shouldn't have taken because I ended up losing in those rounds and was left holding nothing. I came in a distant fourth place. Andrew pulled out a victory as he was able to make some rather large chains of palaces and was scoring 7-8 points a round from them - whereas I was lucky to get 1 point. Ah well, so it goes. We played another round of Red Dragon Inn afterwards and then a few of us finished the evening with a game of Colossal Arena. I had a great time - just what I was needing. An evening to relax, enjoy a few games, and some good company. On Oct 7, 10:11 am, "Casey Rogers" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Yeah, wasn't anyone touched by evil? > > On Tue, Oct 7, 2008 at 11:08 AM, Mark Tyler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > So no comment on Friday night gaming? Must have been extremely boring. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "utah county boardgamers association" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/ucboardgamers?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
