Unlike last session where I was able to squeeze in six games in our standard evening this one went the opposite direction – yet was still as enjoyable. After waiting well over two hours for Mark Tyler to show up - all the rest of us decided that more than likely he was going to be a no-show and we dove in. I'm not sure about these Tuesday night sessions going on at BGR - it must be scratching his itch and he and Ken decided to abandon ship... ;)
SMALL WORLD: After waiting, in reality, about 15 minutes to make sure everyone that was going to show up was here we split up. Josh, Alison, Rich, Andrea (hope I got the spelling right on all those!) and I split off and decided to give Small World a go around. I thought I was more likely to get other games to the table so I wasn't as brushed up on the rules as I would normally have been and had to refer a few times but we managed to fumble through. My biggest mistake was putting the mountains on the tunnel spaces ;) My first play through was quite enjoyable. With so many races and never having played Vinci I just chose the top race and went for it to get a feel for things. Andrea came out of the gate with a good combination race where she could take water as if it was land, and when the race went into decline all the characters stayed on the board. We also had invasions of Ratmen, Amazons, Dwarves and merfolk. I went into decline first as my ratfolk really had no power and has stretched themselves into oblivion quickly. I ended up doing this a total of twice and came out in second place in the end thanks to some flying humans. Scores were all competitive at the end of the game but Andrea came out on top thanks to some dang sorcerers with forts and her previous race. I will enjoy playing this one again. We wrapped up about the same time as the other group that played a game of Goldbrau we shifted around again. NateT and Mark joined me in a three player game of Le Havre (woohoo! finally got to play it!). I know another group was able to get Pandemic in (which Andrew taught) and there was another game going on as well but I can't remember what it was. I enjoyed LeHavre. It is certainly going to take a few games to wrap my head around everything. Getting to know the standard buildings will be one of those important things as we were pretty much learning them as they came up after building or purchasing other buildings. This is a game that builds up - starting out quickly but once about 15-20 buildings are out there the decisions get much more agonizing and can take longer as you decide what it is that you want to do. I am sure it will play faster next time, but even with only three players it took us over three hours to finish. In the end that last special building couldnt' have played into my hand better as it was the smokehouse and I already had a bunch of meat from my slaughtered cattle and a bunch of wood which I quickly turned to charcoal and got myself 24 gold. I will have to play a few more times through as there is some initial concern that a card like that could really throw the game to someone that happens to have the right stuff when it comes up. A great evening as always. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
