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Sacramento Boardgamers Meetup @ Crepeville 8/4/09
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Davido
United States
Mather
California
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Well, first time to meetup in a month and all I got in was 2 games  Too many long games, too many "I'm not up to learning" games, meant too much time playing pocket pool. So I kept track of the others and called it an early night. Still, 24 folks got their games on in various forms. Since I left early, I KNOW I missed out on some later action. Details please. http://www.meetup.com/sacramento-boardgamers/
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Posted Wed Aug 5, 2009 5:34 am
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Board Game: Dominion
[Average Rating:8.05 Overall Rank:6]
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Davido
United States
Mather
California
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DK and 3 others were building away as I arrived. This was the basic game.
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Davido
United States
Mather
California
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This add-on was definitely the rage of the night. Two seperate groups got in at least one play.
JeffW (Cinnabar), Flynn L. and 1 other
Dwayne, MikeH. and 2 others
The groups later consolidated for yet more Intriguing action 
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Davido
United States
Mather
California
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Joe, Lori (?) and 3 others took advantage of the relatively cool, calm (e.g. delightful) weather to play this classic euro at one of the OUTSIDE tables. Gotta say being able to play outdoors as Sacto walks by is just too cool for words.
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Davido
United States
Mather
California
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Jason, Chris, Aaron (?) and 2 others played the expanded version of this popular die-roller.
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Davido
United States
Mather
California
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GregL. and two others got in a couple of plays of this popular add-on to Race for the Galaxy. Hmm, quite the night for expansions, no?
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Davido
United States
Mather
California
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With most of the 6 players being n00bs, DK led a learning set and then settled everyone in a rousing game of BSG. Details of who was who and who was Cylon, please.
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Board Game: Domaine
[Average Rating:7.21 Overall Rank:169]
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Davido
United States
Mather
California
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Jason, Chris, and one other played this after Kingsburg/Forge a Realm.
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Davido
United States
Mather
California
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Placeholder to indicate that Karen, Matt, Robert, Vicki, and Nick took it outside to play some good ol' D&D or at least some sort of FRPG.
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Davido
United States
Mather
California
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Janet, SeanM., and 2 others got in their weekly C&K fix.
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Board Game: Blokus
[Average Rating:7.23 Overall Rank:127]
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Davido
United States
Mather
California
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With C&K at a comfy quartet, Honoree and Angel elected to sit out and play this classic abstract instead.
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Board Game: China
[Average Rating:7.17 Overall Rank:175]
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Davido
United States
Mather
California
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Well, I DID in fact get SOME gaming in. Nick, Vicki, and Bryant were looking for a quick boardgame, and were willing to let me teach them my fave 'go to when you got 40 minutes' tweener. Nick quickly caught on to using two colors as wild cards to do well in the house scoring. Vicki glommed on to the 'finish second to get points w/ little effort' and also worked the emissaries pretty hard. Bryant focused on houses. Nick also managed to get a couple of roads going. As for me, I dabbled in houses, but with new players took advantage to secure emissaries.
Scores (end of 2 decks, roads, emissaries/final)
Davido-24-31 (1 long road)-51
Nick-37-46-46
Vicki-20-20-45
Bryant-27-31-31
Nick admitted that like most area majority games, it takes a play or two to really wrap one's head around the various options. Vicki, with her strong emissary presence definitely appeared to enjoy it more.
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Davido
United States
Mather
California
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With Puerto Rico finished, Joe and Lori were looking for some RFTG action. I HAVE to play this more than once every 3-4 months. Joe and Lori, frankly, left me flat-footed in the dust. Starting w/ Epsilon Erandi, I half-heartedly tried a military strategy. I really didn't get much of anything going, but gamely gave it my best shot.
Joe-40
Lori-21
Davido-10
And so ended my night. Only two games, but one a fave and good to get out and game once in a while...
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Jeff Wood
United States
Davis
California
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This one was brought out as a new game that wouldn't take too long with myself, FlynnL (from Davis), and 2 others.
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Posted Wed Aug 5, 2009 4:58 am
Davis
California
Ah well.
Mather
California
Ah well.
Too bad you were in Dominion: Intrigue while I was there. Space Alert has been on my radar for a while. Too bad we're both pretty irregular these days. Next time, maybe