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Sharon Khan
United Kingdom
Shefford
Bedfordshire
Games, games and more games!
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We were 5. We started with a 3 player game of Empire Builder, which had to be aborted as everyone arrived earlier than expected, and the kids had stopped us getting much played anyway, having to be sent to bed early for being naughty! The first proper game of the evening was therefore Outpost, 5 player. Richard went mega-science, which meant the rest of us had to split Titanium in the early game, Marion missing out on the Heavy Equipment. However, all the science cards came out in clumps, and he couldn’t get all of them! Marion had a bit of a disaster, so when we finished asked if she could play a game she was good at. We looked at her stats, and so picked her best game stat-wise, Peloponnes, only for her to have a disaster in that too!!!!
Next we went for King of Tokyo – quite an amusing game, as I picked up cards that allowed me to buy 1 cheaper, and sell unwanted cards, so was cycling through lots of cards. I then got a card that gave me an extra turn if I rolled 3 1s, Colin hurriedly bought the one that got me 2 extra VPs for rolling three 1s, and so instead I got an extra head. Colin had been doing us all damage, spending most of his time in Tokyo up until that point, and Sami killed him off in his turn and went into Tokyo himself, with much more health than everyone else. I used my ability to go into Tokyo, then immediately damaged everybody for 3 with my re-roll. That took out Marion and Richard, who were both on 3 health! Sami healed himself on his turn, without doing much damage to me, and on my next turn I managed not one, but two re-rolls, which gave me enough points for the win. Very odd game!
As it was my choice next, after a bit of discussion we went for Fauna, one of my favourites! We rolled for the side of the card and played with the green side, the more familiar creatures. James wasn’t here, so I pulled away to an early lead, while the others were all in a bit clump a reasonable distance behind me, despite me losing a lot of cubes in one round due to mis-judging the size of an animal rather. I also didn’t know which country the Springboks came from, so Colin to my left got a gift there from his sporting knowledge. When it got back to me as start player the next time a Kiwi turned up – instant points for me for location, and Colin for adjacency, and no location points for anyone else! After that I just needed a few points from its size to go past the finishing post, and Colin jumped past all the rest by also guessing its exact length.
After that I looked at my list again, and came to Bohnanza, which we don’t play that often nowadays, but is a game I enjoy. As usual it was fairly close at the end, for everyone except Colin, who somehow had a really bad score compared to the rest of us – although it didn’t seem he was doing badly mid-game. We then played 7 Wonders, with Marion having another disaster – she had a reasonable number of resources, but not much access to science, and just didn’t seem to get any points. We then finished with two quick fillers – High Society, in which Richard rapidly spent all his small change, leaving himself with just the 20 and 25. However, he hadn’t spent the most at end-game, and it then came to a three-way tie, which is apparently broken by the most valuable tile, which Richard had for the win. He chose Escalation! to finish with, and proceeded to win that too!
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