Nate Tingen and I had to chuckle the next day at the difference between games played that evening. Nate played two games (Steam and Galaxy Trucker) while in the meantime I was able to squeeze in 10 games being part of the other group.
While waiting for more to show up we started a game of Witches Brew with Bob, Jeff (my brother-in-law visiting from Texas), Josh (not the Josh playing Steam) and Alison (hope I spelled that right!). While we were playing this game they started up Steam which pretty much left us with our current players for the bulk of the evening as nobody else showed up. Witches Brew, as always, was quite fun and I ended up winning by a couple of points. I went with the strategy of using the three potion brews in the first round as usually most people pick the cards to collect more ingredients in the first round and sure enough this time it worked as I was able to pick up all three of the first potions uncontested. It took me another couple of rounds to recover but in the end I barely held on to the lead. Next came Shadow Hunters in which the Hunters (Bob and Alison) slaughtered the rest of the players around the table. We had a lot of friendly backstabbing even before we knew what each other were so it was just a fun session - regardless of the win/loss. At this point I introduced Dominion as they were all interested. Being a four player game I simply bowed out and taught for a while and then they went at it. Jeff become the combo master and at one point had a chain of almost 14 cards. Alas he didn't have much by way of gold however and for all the cards he played he could still only pick up a 5 copper cost item. Bob on the other hand started grabbing VP cards in earnest and was doing all he could to shut down the game as quickly as possible. In the end Bob was able to get a province (feeling that would give him the game) and then Josh, Alison and Jeff had one round to try to to the same. I can only speak from Jeffs view as I was helping him but he ended up drawing 2 moats a VP card and two action cards that didn't help at all. Thus he was shut out of being able to buy VP cards. Bob had calculated correctly and won the game. Steam was looking close to end so we played a couple of games of scripts and scribes while waiting. Luck was on my side and I was able to win both of those games. I can't say it was due to any skill. Steam wrapped up so we swapped players around and for the rest of the evening I played with Ran and Jeremy while Nate, Jeff, Josh, and Alison played Galaxy Trucker (the rest of the players left at this point). First up was a game of Finca which I simply did NOT do well in. I enjoyed the game as a three player game but I was investing in the wrong fruits at the wrong time and simply locked myself out of the game by stubbornly trying to get certain tiles only to wait a turn to long and have them bought out from under me. I could not recover and came in a distant third. Still a good game though. Next we played a quick game of "Get Bit" Although I didn't win I started getting the concept about half way into the game and at least was able to stay alive into the last round having lost one of the two characters I was playing rapidly. Last we played three games of Slide 5 while waiting for Galaxy Trucker to finish up. The first game we played with random cards from the deck which made it interesting but while playing we found out we should have only been playing with the cards numbered 1-34. The second and third games were played with the correct cards. Ran still kicked our butts all three times. I had a great time as usual. On Jul 5, 10:45 am, "M. C." <[email protected]> wrote: > Whoops, sorry I misunderstood. It should probably read: > > Me: played AoS twice, RRT once > Ran: played RRT 2-3 times > Josh: Aos twice > Jeremy: RRT at least once, a long time ago. > > I guess my point is that a five player game played pretty quickly > given our relative inexperience > > On Jul 4, 10:43 pm, Ran <[email protected]> wrote: > > > If I'm the guy who had played Steam twice, then this is inaccurate > > (that was my first play). I've played RRT 2 or 3 times. It's probably > > been a year or more since my last play of it, though. > > > On Jul 4, 10:06 pm, "M. Crane" <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > So I finally played Steam last night with my group. We had five > > > players. One of us had played Railroad Tycoon four years ago (my first > > > eurogame experience), one had played Steam twice, another was new to > > > the game,I had only played Age of Steam twice in addition to a single > > > game of RT, and our final player had two games of Age of Steam behind > > > him. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
