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Sharon Khan
United Kingdom
Shefford
Bedfordshire
Games, games and more games!
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On Friday there were 6 of us, but they arrived quite gradually! We started with just 2 of us, so pulled out Quarriors!, which we bought the previous week. We played one game 2 player, then James arrived, so we explained the rules to him briefly and played another game with 3. By the time that had finished Richard and Marion had arrived, and the first game of the evening was chosen as If Wishes Were Fishes!, a game from The Works. James won, so was given the choice of the next game, and as none of our new purchases did 5, suggested a few options, among them Outpost – at which point I remembered we’d bought the new edition of that, so he was keen to try that.
The new version of Outpost is nicely produced; certainly much nicer than our home-made cardboard version that we usually play with (despite eventually acquiring an old edition). The only downside is the inability to see easily across the table what cards are. The game started with James going heavily into the Outpost strategy, buying two Heavy Equipments. I picked up the third, while Marion and Richard split the data libraries. Colin went for the slightly bizarre strategy of buying two Nodules, paying an exorbitant amount to get the second one, just to deny it to anyone else (I’d picked up the first one cheap, as usual!). This meant we hit Phase 2 fairly soon, with Marion being the only player to have hoarded any amount of cash. This worked massively in her favour, with her picking up lots of useful stuff, and her income went through the roof. She then managed to do the same going into the third phase, and a Moon Base came out as the only large building, which she bought easily; then skipped a turn, hoarding income, and bought two more Moon Bases in the remaining two turns to win comfortably! The rest of us were scampering for points and income behind her, and it was quite close between all the remaining four of us.
Sami returned from London just as we finished, so we were 6 players for the final hour and a half. We decided to play as a group of 6, so I started listing 6 player games for Marion to choose from. I got to Schrille Stille, and she confused it with Show Manager, and that’s what we ended up playing. This time it was Richard’s turn to get the gift game – by the midpoint of the game he had the top two productions in the two most expensive locations, and neither was realistically possible to beat. He had to play the rest of the game out with minimal money, but the rest of us were also in that position; without the mega-points already, so that didn’t especially hurt him. We finished with Incan Gold, where Sami seemed to be able to predict was coming next in the deck, actually leaving early a couple of times!!!! (I’m surprised he even knew what that card meant, it’s so long since I’ve seen him use it!).
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