[Recap 2008-05-16] FCBG - Springtime Gaming (#21)
Don Sutherland
United States
Connecticut
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Fairfield County Boardgames met Friday evening for the usual havoc and mayhem.. I mean boardgames.
Here are the games i was given that were played. Comments and additions are welcome and encouraged.
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Don Sutherland
United States
Connecticut
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This was going when I arrived a bit later than usual.
Ricardo 57
Dana 48
SteveZ 40
Mona 38
Sara 23
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Don Sutherland
United States
Connecticut
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Players Don Lisa Leslie Trish
I had gotten this the week prior and was looking to get a second play in. I started off grabbing some good support, and then picking up some of the cheaper airships. The bonus airship floated around the board a bit, with Leslie controlling it most of the time.
Leslie set herself up early with some black power and ran through grabbing what she could with it. When the hindenberg opened up she grabbed the top two competetions on it, and was working on getting the 3rd, but her red support wasn't as good.
Lisa ran into some problems with slightly lacking support, combined with bad rolls making hard for her to grab support cards and airships. She'd ever roll 3 3's on white to get a 2 die 4, or roll 3 1's
Trish had some good plays, but kept having what she wanted taken by Leslie. Partway through she realized you could stack airships ( i guess i didn't explain that part very well) But what she did grab was worth points, nearly giving her the game.
I ended the game keeping the hindenburg incomplete to limit Leslie's scoring and hopefully help me. It worked out in combination with the ones I grabbed early kept me above Leslie and tied with Trish, but i had more ships.
Don 13/5
Trish 13/2
Leslie 12
Lisa 12
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Don Sutherland
United States
Connecticut
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Players Don Trish SteveZ
Trish had mentioned earlier in the evening the she hadn't played this, and when there were just three of use looking for a game i suggested it and we set it up.
Trish and I ended up lined up near each other after the first round or so and i started bringing in water, only to have Trish define how we'd be playing by detouring away from one of my 3 house developments. Well the led to some interesting water paths as we worked on getting ours fed, with out helping the other.
Steve meanwhile built up a few areas and supplying themselves outside of our little war.
By the end of the game, we had the usually spread of houses, but some interesting water paths going on. Steve ended the game when he made sure one of his 4 house developments got water, giving trish a chance to roll and earn a few more points.
In the end i had managed to get the most supplied.
Don 32
Trish 27
Steve 29
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Don Sutherland
United States
Connecticut
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Players Trish Mona Mark SteveZ Don Alan
Alan had picked this up and wanted to give it a try. None of the rest of us played it. After fumbling through the directions we managed to get the hand going with only minor mistakes.
I managed to score a bunch of places early while the board was setting itself up. I also had been dealt a very good hand with one void suit and one with just one card. So i stacked my end of round money there.
In the end of the hand i had the most. We decided we weren't overly impressed and didn't play a second hand.
Don 40
Trish 15
Mona 25
Steve 30
Mark 13
Alan 35
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Don Sutherland
United States
Connecticut
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Players Don Mark Trish Alan SteveZ
We wasted some time waiting for Ra ( i think ) to finish up and player a couple hands of Escalation.
I was it for the game, and kept getting stuck with the big sets of cards.. Repeatably...
Don 73
Mark 13
Trish 28
Alan 22
Steve 16
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Board Game: Vikings
[Average Rating:7.32 Overall Rank:159]
Don Sutherland
United States
Connecticut
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Players Don Mark Matt Alan
Alan wanted to give this another run, i liked it and was interested in doing so again.
I started off making sure i had some money, and well money was the course of my game, in the end i was pulling in 15-20 gold on the scoring rounds. I played the game trying to make sure i completed islands and was up with the longest. I got both of these bonuses by myself. The one place i was short was defending ships for VPs. All three of mine were fended off, but two of the three were worth money only.
I did still pull out the win, though Mark was pretty close, if i hadn't earned all the bonuses i could, he would have had it.
Don 47
Mark 43
Matt 24
Alan 18
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Don Sutherland
United States
Connecticut
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Did Race come out?? Of course it did, would it be a FCBG meetup with out some race.
Alan and Mark were playing a two player game when i arrived
Game 1
Mark 29
Alan 28
And at the end of the night we got a few more games in.
Game 2
Don 34
Mark 39
Alan 33
Ricardo 36
Game 3
Don 29
Mark 40
Alan 34
Ricardo 18
The next two we played with out Ricardo, the first started as a "speed race" as we thought we were running out of time. Speed Race being when Alan keeps going "go go go go" limiting the time we have between actions.
Game 3
Mark 36
Don 31
Alan 42
And the last game, only sort of counts. Ricardo commented that we all got a bit punchy. We played it as a new, created on the spot alternative where we shuffled all of our action card and dealt them out and each person could take the bonus off one of them each turn. So it was really random which actions you could to. Was interesting, but not something i'll look to do again 
Game 4*
Mark 48 / 14
Don 48 / 11
Alan 40
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Board Game: Ra
[Average Rating:7.60 Overall Rank:48]
Don Sutherland
United States
Connecticut
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Steve and the "L"'s (Lisa Leslie Lis) played a game of Ra
Lisa 49
Leslie 32
Lis 40
Steve 27
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Don Sutherland
United States
Connecticut
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Adam apparently dominated this game of Glory to Rome
Adam 46
Ricardo 16
Ed 11
Greg (the boy) 13
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Don Sutherland
United States
Connecticut
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Ricardo pulled this out, but didn't seem to do very well.
Ricardo 6
Greg (the boy) 11
Ed 13
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Don Sutherland
United States
Connecticut
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Matt 227
Greg (the boy) 140
Ed 159
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Trisha Loter
United States
Connecticut
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We played a nice 5 person game of this. It was me, Steve, Steve, Lisa, and Lis if I remember correctly. I can't remember for sure who won but I think it was Steve (Wood.) It was an interesting run through, and was played much more politely than what I am used to, but it was still a lot of fun!
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Matt Loter
United States
New Haven
Connecticut
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Steve and I played one of the beach scenarios and added in a little air support from the Air Pack. We each took a turn leading Germany to a comfortable win over the invading Allies. In both games the air support got killed off early and wasn't much of a factor. But man, that run up the beach is treacherous and the German sandbag bunkers were just shredding.
I think the second round was a little closer as I had a much better idea of what might work after seeing what totally failed for Steve when he played the Allies. I totally ripped off his excellent air plan only to see my stupid plane get shot down far before its time. So it goes...
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Trisha Loter
United States
Connecticut
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Some of us wrapped up the night with this game. Steve, Steve, me and Lisa played this. It was my first play and I felt it was a great little filler. I just barely took the win.
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Mark Delano
United States
Norwalk
Connecticut
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Players: Mark, Alan, Dana, Mona, Mike
Only Alan and I had played before. I think everyone enjoyed themselves, although I probably should have given a bit more advice on some of the early decisions.
I'm not sure of the final scores, but I think the positions were:
Mark
Alan
Dana
Mona
Mike
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Adam Skinner
United States
Chippewa Lake
Ohio
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I saw Ralph, Matt, and a couple of other people playing this. How did it go?
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Dave Hamson
United States
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Players: Sara, Winter, SteveZ and Dave.
Winner: The Black Death (Ran out of black cubes  )
Cures Found: 2
Love this game, but boy can it be rough.
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Dave Hamson
United States
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Players: Greg, SteveZ, Sara, and Dave.
Winner: Dave
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