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Indy Boardgamers Meetup, August 3, 2008
Todd McCorkle
United States
Anderson
Indiana
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Extra large group today requiring 5 tables. I guess people didn't want to miss their final chance to game before GenCon.
I do have a request for all the people who preordered Agricola and are receiving it this week. Please do not burn out on playing the game by over playing it during GenCon. I would like to play the English copy sometime. 
What did we play this week?
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Board Game: Yspahan
[Average Rating:7.25 Overall Rank:171]
Todd McCorkle
United States
Anderson
Indiana
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Todd 104
Max 78
Jeff C 68
I was a mean mean person this game. I focused on getting as many buildings as possible during week 1 and then filled up the entire caravan by myself. This was the first game I used Shea's trick of moving the supervisor 0 spaces to move 2 guys to the caravan multiple times.
Max did a good job filling up the color groups on the board to get lots of points, but he never had a chance to build most of the buildings. I kept taking the camels from him.
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Todd McCorkle
United States
Anderson
Indiana
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Game 1 Game 2
Brian 205 Ross 193
Brent 193 Shea 166
Kevin 86 Todd 175
Morgan 73
No clue what happened in game 1. In game 2, we twisted Shea's arm to play with us. I have a feeling it might take actual torture to get him to play again. Shea focused on getting lots of people and green backed civ cards. He went with a psuedo starvation strategy feeding his guys VPs 3-4 turns. The other turns he got most of his food through cards I believe. He ended the game with all 8 symbols and a 2nd set of 3-4 symbols.
Ross went heavy with the tools maxing out at 12. He managed to get 7 of the tool builders for big points. I was actively trying to take tool builders from him but only managed to grab 1. The rest I was hoping to wait a turn for them to get cheaper since I was unwilling to pay 3 resources for them. Ross had no problem paying 3-4 resources for such cards.
I mostly went food production, getting 4 farmers * 7 farms, and hut builder, 5 builders * 6 huts. I think I goofed near the end of the game spending most all of my resources on a 1-7 tile thinking there was only 1 turn left in the game. Turns out there were 2 tiles under the 1-7 tile, not 1. I was really hurting for resources to do much of anything on those last 2 turns. Didn't help that I rolled 4 1s using 4 people on one of those turns. (OH NO!)
One of these days I'll beat Ross at this game. Until then, I'll just blame my losses on always being the start player.
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Todd McCorkle
United States
Anderson
Indiana
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Max 25
Jeff C. 29
Ken 31
Todd 52
First time playing for all of us. I think I won because the other guys let me get away with murder. My secret goal cards were blue and completing bridges so I just focused on getting the blue regions connected to a bridge and then later completing the bridge.
The end game kind of snuck up on us. We thought it ended when everyone ran out of buildings or the board was full. Jeff was looking through the rules and noticed it ended when 1 player was out of buildings. I only had 2 left at the time (4 and 5). Jeff was saving up most of his buildings to do a final rush at the end when everybody else was out. He quickly changed tactics and got most of his buildings out before my last 2 could be played.
Somehow I managed to win tallest building in 2 of the regions. I wasn't paying that much attention to it. Everyone else only won 1 region.
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Todd McCorkle
United States
Anderson
Indiana
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Ross - W s(?) *scribble*
Dave K.
Denise
Chris
Zoe
I know Ross won this game. I think that's what these strange markings mean, but I may be missing something.
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Todd McCorkle
United States
Anderson
Indiana
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Denise 39
Chris 27
Zoe 40
Dave K. 43
Ross 56
I believe there was a forgotten rule in this game. Something about the bank having limited money I think.
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Board Game: Tikal
[Average Rating:7.40 Overall Rank:107]
Todd McCorkle
United States
Anderson
Indiana
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Morgan 94
Brent 117
Kevin 111
Those look like some really high scores. Of course, I think I've only played this game 4 player. I don't know if they played the auction variant or not.
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Board Game: Tsuro
[Average Rating:6.47 Overall Rank:818]
Todd McCorkle
United States
Anderson
Indiana
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Kevin 1 win 1 tie
Morgan 1 loss 1 tie
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Todd McCorkle
United States
Anderson
Indiana
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Game 1 Game 2
Mike 3 Shawn 5
Shea 6 Shea 6
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Todd McCorkle
United States
Anderson
Indiana
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Max 90 - won tie breaker
Dave K 90
Shawn 80
Dave D 80
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Todd McCorkle
United States
Anderson
Indiana
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Brian 111,000
Jeff C 107,000
Ken 76,500 (tie breaker)
Diane 76,500
Whoever wrote the scores for this game down would have won the "neatest handwriting in the group" award, but you left off an 'n' in the game title.
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Todd McCorkle
United States
Anderson
Indiana
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Shawn 28
Dave K. 30
So Dave, what does "consume" mean?
They played the simplified 2 player game choosing only 1 role instead of 2. I think I was only asked 3-4 questions the whole game. 1 of which was strategy related (Why would anyone play destroyed world?). Hopefully this means they are understanding the game better.
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Todd McCorkle
United States
Anderson
Indiana
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Ross 52
Todd 48
Kevin 31
We did things a bit different this game and only added the points for buildings at the end of the game. I tried an embassy rush strategy, getting the embassy the first part of year 3 (I think). I spent a good chuck of resources and 2 pt doohickeys to the town hall and was really close to 30 points before counting the buildings. Unfortunately, I was the only player to lose the final monster battle which cost me my newly built wizard guild which was enough to lose the game.
Ross went with a farm/merchant guild, then wizard guild, then top row strategy. Kevin went military (I think he's scared of the monsters) eventually building a fortress, but I think it only took effect in 2 battles.
Ross got a bit lucky the first year getting the emissary since everyone was tied on buildings and he had the fewest resources. After that, Kevin kept winning the emissary but would forget to use him before losing him.
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Indianapolis
Indiana
I thought you were making it to GenCon via the game rental deal? Did I mix that up?
Carmel
Indiana
Indianapolis
Indiana
Great list again!
Really appreciate your efforts.
Don't be worried.
Think we are going to be playing Agricola for a long time in the group.
See you after the show.