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These are games that I know were played at Metro Seattle Gamers, http://www.dragonflight.org/index.php?page=16, in July 2009.
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1. Board Game: Airships [Average Rating:6.47 Overall Rank:909]
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Two games of this were played on Friday, July 3d. People seem fascinated by the dice.
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I like funny dice.
 
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  • Posted Tue Jul 7, 2009 10:15 pm
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2. Board Game: Agricola [Average Rating:8.25 Overall Rank:2]
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After a membership meeting, game play for July 4th started with the first of two games of Agricola. After playing several games, my impression is that, in part, your success depends on which occupations and minor improvements you're dealt. People can get carried away with these cards, though.

Following the second game (played as the last game of the day), group consensus was that fewer commodities would make the game more manageable without detracting from the play experience.

Oh, and Scot McConnachie finally won a game in a tight finish - two people were just one point behind him.
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3. Board Game: Steam [Average Rating:7.90 Overall Rank:19]
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A learning game for most of the players, so it will take a few more plays to get a firm sense of the game. The mechanism for gaining money is interesting but it seems difficult to improve your train size given the length of the game. And, as always, I find the track selection a bit limited compared to 18xx.
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Delight is to him – a far, far upward, and inward delight – who against the proud gods and commodores of this earth, ever stands forth his own inexorable self
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I think it would be worth trying the basic game. It is plenty thinky with just the route planning and getting cubes.. The economic aspect is unnecessary anyway.
 
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Worth considering, but the route and cube planning seemed reasonable and more dependent on train size than anything else.
 
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  • Posted Tue Jul 7, 2009 5:44 am
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4. Board Game: Wellington [Average Rating:6.95 Overall Rank:965]
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While Euros dominated one side of the club, Scot (Spain), John (Britain) and Victor (France) whipped out a game of Wellington. From the chatter, the two battles of Madrid didn't go well for the French.
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5. Board Game: Glory to Rome [Average Rating:7.56 Overall Rank:75]
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In a moment of indecision as to how long a game various people were looking for, a quick game of GtR took place. I still haven't made up my mind about this game, but I'm not convinced it's so much better than Race.
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I don't think it's better than RFTG (a full 2 points lower, IMO), but the feel of the game is similar and less passive-aggressive. I'd play 2-3 games of Race over Glory any day (the length vs. randomness of Glory to Rome are my big negatives), but I'd happily play either.
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It'll be interesting to compare the two games once the most recent Race expansion has hit the table.
 
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6. Board Game: Agricola [Average Rating:8.25 Overall Rank:2]
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Monday we played Agricola again. I had Wood-fired Oven, Baker's Oven, Turnwrest Plow, and some card that gave me grain and vegetables, so I went for a baking strategy. I never cooked an animal (and never could) but I maxed grain and veggies, and I had a lot of animals at the end.

Victor had Charcoal Burner which gave him food and wood when anyone built an oven and Bread Seller which gave food when anyone baked. He got a lot of food off my actions and those of others, but I had an easy victory. Final score was something like 37-28-26-25-22.
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That's a really good combination of cards. Between the two Saturday games, I had most of those cards as well as Breadseller and was able to score 30+ both times.
 
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7. Board Game: Steam [Average Rating:7.90 Overall Rank:19]
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Gaming on the 11th started off with another game of Steam. Players had a better handle on what they were doing, so there were no disasters as in last week's game. Some very heavy bidding for turn order as players fought for selection of train upgrade and urbanization.
 
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8. Board Game: Axis & Allies Anniversary Edition [Average Rating:7.62 Overall Rank:257]
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John Edwards and friends got in playtime on a couple of different games of A&A, one continuing session and one new game.
 
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9. Board Game: The Drive On Metz, 1944 [Average Rating:6.17 Overall Rank:3706]
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Scot McConnachie and Jim played a quick game of Drive while other games were in progress.
 
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10. Board Game: Agricola [Average Rating:8.25 Overall Rank:2]
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Another five-player game of Agricola broke out, where none of the players really ever had a firm course of action. On the other hand, no-one wound up begging for food and final scores were reasonable, so something worked out.
 
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11. Board Game: Saint Petersburg: New Society & Banquet Expansion [Average Rating:7.51 Unranked] [Average Rating:7.51 Unranked]
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The evening finished up with a four-player St Pete's.
 
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12. Board Game: Steam [Average Rating:7.90 Overall Rank:19]
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Tuesday July 7 we played Steam
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13. Board Game: Steam [Average Rating:7.90 Overall Rank:19]
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Tuesday, July 14, a four player game of Steam. It appears that the player who capitalizes the the most finishes first or second and the player who capitalizes the least finishes last. Not that you can't kill yourself taking too much, but we are still taking too little.
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14. Board Game: Race for the Galaxy [Average Rating:7.88 Overall Rank:13]
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Tuesday July 14. The usual filler
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15. Board Game: Dominion [Average Rating:7.96 Overall Rank:10]
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Tuesday July 14. I was at the next table, but I believe they played two games of Dominion.
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Dominion's a great game. Can't wait for my copy of Dominion Intrigue to arrive.
 
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16. Board Game: Catan: Cities & Knights [Average Rating:7.54 Unranked] [Average Rating:7.54 Unranked]
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Tuesday July 14. Then the Dominion players played Cities and Knights
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17. Board Game: Power Grid [Average Rating:8.09 Overall Rank:5]
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On Saturday July 11 we played Power Grid
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Given that I played in that game, you'd think I'd have remembered to enter it. OTOH, I also don't remember if you won or I did.
 
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18. Board Game: Glory to Rome [Average Rating:7.56 Overall Rank:75]
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On Saturday July 11 we played Glory to Rome.
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19. Board Game: Battlestar Galactica [Average Rating:7.86 Overall Rank:18]
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Played this again the other night. Humans came within 1 turn of making their final jump away from Kobol but the damn Cylons managed to prevail by utterly crushing our morale.
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20. Board Game: Ca$h 'n Gun$ [Average Rating:6.75 Overall Rank:449]
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What can I say? This game is just crazy fun.
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21. Board Game: Thebes [Average Rating:7.26 Overall Rank:166]
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Played this for the first time and really enjoyed it. Beginners luck was on my side and I walked away with a commanding win
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22. Board Game: Race for the Galaxy [Average Rating:7.88 Overall Rank:13]
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Saturday the 18th started with a couple of three player games of Race to fill the time.

Later in the afternoon, the three people not playing wargames got at least one more game in. But maybe they played two. It's hard to tell sometimes when you're busy berating someone in The Napoleonic Wars.
 
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23. Board Game: Glory to Rome [Average Rating:7.56 Overall Rank:75]
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Then a slightly different group of three played a couple of games of Glory. Boy, but Bill ran away with that second game.
 
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24. Board Game: Axis & Allies [Average Rating:6.87 Overall Rank:461]
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An entirely different group of three broke out A&A and were still beating away at it when I left at 9:30 p.m.
 
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25. Board Game: The Napoleonic Wars (2nd Edition) [Average Rating:7.55 Overall Rank:527]
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Five of us spent most of the day engaged in a game of Nappy Wars. It ran four turns until a second appearance of Europe Exhausted brought an end to the game through the peace die-roll. For the first two turns, Russia held a slight lead, though by the end of the second turn the forward Russian army group had gotten eviscerated. Then in the third turn, Prussia entered the war on France's side. This is usually very, very good for France and not so good for Prussia. In this case, some good fortune in die rolls and lack of Russian troop strength allowed Prussia a lead at the end of turn three. He had managed to grab Grodno, Lublin and Krakow. France hadn't been able to make as much progress in central Europe as might be expected. However, things went down-hill for Prussia and France in turn four, which ended with the conquest of Prussia due to a Russo-Swedish army group in Berlin and British and Austrian flags littering the western end of the board. Britain wound up winning the game.
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