Well, I was planning to come, but since I was hit by a cold (I think it is not A(H1N1) that I got), my wife do suggested me to stay home that night.
Looks like there is a lot of good game being played (I am interested in playing SMALL WORLD too, since it is a wargame :) ). And looks like there is a lot of new faces, I do not recognized the name that you type in: Alison, Rich, and Andrea? Seems like this is a good bunch of players. And they like Wargames?? Anyway, The Mark you mentioned in your Le Havre game, I bet that is not Mark T? So is that Mark C? I hope to join you guys later in the month. --- Ken --- On Sat, May 2, 2009 at 9:46 PM, Sylvus <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
