We only got two games in as the morning was spent fixing some items that decided to break and we had the BBQ first.
We first played a game of Last Night on Earth. My wife and I were the heroes and my brothers were the zombies. I enjoyed mocking my brother when he played "Last Night on Earth on my two characters (I had the prom queen and the jock) but they were in different spaces. He discarded the card and I then moved them together in order to trade some items around. Wouldn't you know it but he drew the second copy of the card and I missed my turn while my characters had a tryst in the high school. Then the next turn he played "Bickering" which had me lost yet ANOTHER full turn - I guess their special moment didn't work out to well. After the delay however I drew the invincible shotgun from Hades and blew away everything in my path. Must have shot that sucker 11 times and it never ran out of ammo. One roll killed three zombies in one blow - super nice. In the end our weapons were too much and we were able to destroy three spawning pits in time and win the game. Then we ended up playing a game of Kingsburg. Each time I play I decide to max out a different track if it works at all and this time I had every building that added to combat (I think I had a +7 in all) but it simply can't keep up with the massive points the top track gives you. For all the extra little points I got for being the winner FOUR of the combats - that +4 points doesn't even make up for two of the buildings in the top track. Ah well - still had a good time. On May 26, 10:31 am, Jeff Bowers <[email protected]> wrote: > We started at 8:00 a.m. with 8 people. One group played 1832, and I played > Small World and Age of Steam. Small World is a lot of fun. I'm not sure > how much depth is there, but I'm still enjoying playing it. For my second > race, I paid 5 vp's to get the Commando Amazons. Total blast. It was a > close game all around and I tied for 2nd. > > Age of Steam I don't much care for. It's supposed to be the type of game > that's right up my alley, but I don't enjoy it for some reason. I finished > last. > > At this point some people went home, my son joined us, and we shuffled > groups a bit. The other players started 1861 while Aaron, Bart and I played > Le Havre and then Small World again. I won Le Havre, although it felt like > I was being thwarted on whatever I needed to do. Small World was very > close. I would have won if I'd gone after Aaron on my last turn instead of > Bart. Oh well. > > Most everyone bailed at this point, so Chris, Aaron and I played a game of > Cutthroat Caverns. Chris has all the expansions now, so we did the first > Adventure. They've written up some set encounters it a "choose you own > adventure" format. It is not role-playing by any means, but it adds some > narrative structure to a series of engagements. Took about 2.5 hours and > was pretty fun. Definitely worth trying if Cutthroat Caverns appeals to > you. > > So, I had a very fun day. Played from 8:00 to 7:00. > > > > On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 10:08 AM, NTengine <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Hey guys, > > I'm just curious how all the Memorial Day gaming turned out. I didn't > > manage to pull any board games out yesterday, but I was invited to a 4- > > player session of Left 4 Dead, and extremely violent, ultra-gory > > zombie apocalypse first-person shooter that my wife would never > > approve of. So naturally I joined in and had a blast. > > > I saw that Bob won a bunch of games--congrats to him and all those who > > helped him--but how did everyone else's holiday go? If you'd like to > > report on it, I'd love to hear about it.- Hide quoted text - > > - Show quoted text - --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
