Well, it was a small crowd, just 7 of us. Jeff, Chris & Aaron played LaHavre
The rest of us (Mark T., Ran, Ken & I) started with Automobile. In Automobile You try to make the most moey--harder said than done. You build from among 3 types of factories (economy, mid-range or luxury), decide how big you want your factories to be (small, medium, large), and produce cars that can only be sold that turn based on a hidden demand of which you only know a little. There are lots of other little things like role selection and executive decisions which make for a lot of twist and turns in the plot. I started out great after turn 1, but just did mediocre on turn 2 & 3. The math calculations in my head (about $4,300) told me that I wouldn't win just plugging along at the same pace, so the last turn I took out two loans and manufactured way too much in a bid to win the game. Well, ended up not selling 6 cars and took huge losses and took last. But I did stunt the income growth for Mark & Ken by flooding the market! :) Ken who started out small, but built into a manufacturing mogul, managed to sell everyone of his cars the last turn, while Mark got stuck with some losses. That made the difference and Ken won by a good margin. It was now 9:30 PM and the store employee was planning on closing down in about an hour, or I think we were up for another game of Automobile. Instead we played Scripts & Scribes. I really like the mechanics and flow of this game--just not the theme. In the end, Ran won 2 colors & I won two colors and he edged me out 6 to 5. I'm working on retheme-ing (sic) :) this as a detective game. :) That was it. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
