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Gary Heidenreich
United States
Milwaukee
Wisconsin
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April 12th
Another Tuesday, another evening of games and beer. This week, Mr. Modelo's brother came to visit him. Negro Modelo. Also some tasty Potosi Cave Ale and some Capitol Brewery Supper Club.
We also gamed. Timm and I started the evening off with a game of Aton. It was a punch/counterpunch type of game and quite possibly the longest one we had played (game time, not real time). We almost went through the deck twice. I started out jumping into the lead by pushing the points in the first section. By the time he countered, I had switched over to other strategies. It took awhile to get to the first scoring as neither of us were plucking pieces from the board. I think we even had the board just about filled after the the first scoring (which had me in the lead by about 8-9 points). The second scoring round wasn't going as well for me as I was trying to push to get to forty before a second scoring round would go as I knew Timm would have me if it got to that point. I was one point shy of that and Timm did win pretty handedly on points after that. It was a tight, tense game, as they always are. This is one I want to play down in St. Louis in May with some different people.
Three of us from the game group are heading down to the Geekway to the West in May for a few days of gaming convention goodness. Looking forward to it and meeting some more of the wonderful people on the Geek and gaming with some I had met previously.
Chris and Jeff arrived around the same time and I had been reading the rules to Don so we played it. Heh, two Queen Games in a row. Those and the alea are two of my favorite publishers. Anyways, Don is a little card game filler that plays 3-6. It's an auction/set collection game with a closed economy. Except, the bidding is weird as it's based on what cards you are collection and you play people based on what cards they might have too. I don't want to go into it too much but I thought it was a different type of auction and works well for this quick game. Lesson learned - Bid aggressively. Timm had 25, Jeff 23, Chris had 5 and I had 3. I want to play again and whomever won the copy at the Game-a-Thon in March, you really should play it.
Timm and I were talking about perhaps over the next 13 weeks playing each of the big box alea games. But, I'm not sure if we all want to do that (I don't know if I want to do that). We still broke out Puerto Rico as it had been awhile (and I just love this game). It was quite a tough battle in this one. Timm was working the quarries, Jeff was shipping, Chris was working money and I was doing my thing. In the second to last round, Jeff took the
Captain hoping to end the game that round. We were two victory points short and that was the game. The next round, Timm and Chris were each able to buy another big building and get it manned (or was that the turn before?) Regardless, Timm won this one, too. He had 60, Chris had 58, I had 52 and Jeff had 43. Always a fun game for me.
We had time for one more so we grabbed Glen More from the shelf. This is such a good game from anywhere from two to five players. All those numbers work well. I started out rough and then I tried the push the boundries and see if I can get everyone to lose points game. Yeah, not so much. I did want to give it a shot but my lack of development really hurt. Timm won this one, as well, with 47 (he had -15), Chris had 41 (-3), Jeff had 27 (-24) and I had 26 (0). I blame the Potosi Cave Ale for that loss. LOL
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