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Cliff
United States
Western Great Lakes - Owashtinong Aajigaaning
Michigan
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What a great day with everyone and I still have plenty to play with I haven't played with in forever (or ever).
I came in planning on seeing Dad sometime later and possibly getting in a game with Caylus with a friend and someone who posted to the Midwest forum on our gameday if we came across him. In the meantime:
-Two copies of Railroad Dice showed up, but they didn't get played. Yet! So, I figure they get the Coincidental Obscure Showing - Unplayed Category
-A few of us opened up with San Juan but it was with expansion. My whole total-immersion boardgame initiation came with San Juan when a friend loaned me his copy. The whole family played and played and I thought we'd be gamers... together... forever. But my wife dropped out post-San Juan and over the next couple of years so did the kids (though they theoretically could be found over at videogamegeek).
-We couldn't find the third person interested in Caylus so we hooked up with a couple of others and played Homesteaders. Another gamer friend recommended that getting that ol' western theme rolling with Carson City would be a good way to go. I mentioned that Carson City: A New Beginning was on its way.
-On to an introduction to a chemistry game by a chemistry professor - Organic Soup. I really can't ask for much more of a better introduction. And all the chemical puns everyone was throwing around? Greatness! We got a couple of those games in.
-It's been many, many moons since I had played my sophomore game of Battlestar Galactica. I was kindly invited as the seventh player in the latest expansion. It was a sprawling board that included the Pegasus expansion board and the Exodus stuff. Incredible wonderfully laid-back pace and freakish Cylon assaults. I had to go cylon after "parsec" 4, but still took a shot at missing killing a couple of centurions that were one step away from ending the game. Then the humans unfolded all sorts of +2 bonuses and made me shoot my toasters. It was time to go for the cinematic flourish so I visited Admiral Cain, whispered conspiracy and Kat was lethally ended smokin'! I wasn't planning on Starbuck replacing her, though. President Roslyn revealed as a Cylon and then the Crossroads phase and it seemed like suddenly there were slugs (trauma tokens and temblors) ricoheting everywhere. It was a done deal for the humans. ]
-We finally rendezvoused with my dad and got a late start with Caylus that didn't finish. Man, I was rusty with the rules and hadn't played in sooo long, but it was a nice reunion. Only got the scoring the castle walls though.
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-On to an introduction to a chemistry game by a chemistry professor - Organic Soup. I really can't ask for much more of a better introduction. And all the chemical puns everyone was throwing around? Greatness! We got a couple of those games in.
