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Sacramento Boardgamers Meetup @ Crepeville-9/29/09
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Davido
United States
Mather
California
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A relatively light turnout this Tuesday at Crepeville Midtown. Nevertheless, I tally about 20 or so gamers at the tables.As always, please update/correct anything I missed/goofed up on. For more information about gaming in Sacramento: http://www.meetup.com/sacramento-boardgamers/
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Posted Wed Sep 30, 2009 7:54 pm
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Davido
United States
Mather
California
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Chris continues to table this recent retheming of Vinci. He was joined by Jason and two others
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Davido
United States
Mather
California
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This expansion to Pandemic hit the tables, replete with petrie dish containers for the disease cubes. Nick, Vicki, Karen, Seth and 2 others successfully fought off the epidemics at the Normal level.
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Davido
United States
Mather
California
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Phil and I were hankering for some Power Grid, and Conny was kind enough to join us. We chose the Benelux "fast board". Conny had played PG once or twice, but needed a refresher. I overbought early, and could not always synch my houses with the plants. Still, I had a good infrastructure in the middle of the board, hanging in the middle of the turn order. Conny led us into Step 2, so I began gearing up for the end game. I overbought (60 or so) the coveted 50/6 fusion plant. I also had the 3-->6 garbabe and finished with the 5 Wind plant. So I could power 17, 11 for free and with the only Garbage plant, was in good shape. Conny kept up the pressure, ending the game and powering 16 cities. At the game end I had and powered 14.
Conny-16
Davido-14
Phil-13
Still, Benelux is a fun board and it's good to snag some of the other plants that don't make it through in classic PG.
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Davido
United States
Mather
California
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Matthew, Robert, Dwayne, and one other battled amongst the Lands.
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Davido
United States
Mather
California
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Janet, Honoree, GregL, and Tedd got their Catan on.
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Davido
United States
Mather
California
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Most of the Pandemic: On the Brink group played this classic twist on the Haunted House riff.
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Board Game: Caylus
[Average Rating:7.98 Overall Rank:10]
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Davido
United States
Mather
California
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Robert, Dwayne, and one other played this popular worker placement resource game.
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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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Looking for something quick after Power Grid: Benelux, I suggested my fave go-to Tweener, China. Conny has played a few times, and Phil once before. The emissary jockeying was brutal, and fill connected a couple of roads. I tried to be efficient with 2nd place scoring and except for Conny putting 2 houses in Purple (to Phil's 4 or so and my 1), I succeeded. Phil's roads made the difference.
Scoring: End of Game/+ Roads/ + Emissaries/Total
Phil:29/+10/+5/44
Davido: 23/+4/+12/39
Conny: 23/0/+4/27
As always, a tense, but fun 45 minutes 
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Davido
United States
Mather
California
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Not quite ready to wrap it up, we opted for a fun game that we all (well, all but Tedd) knew and didn't have to think too hard to end the night. We played the "I don't feel like sorting them out, so let's play with all the tickets" version of 1910
I kept Phoenix-Boston, Denver-El Paso, and Montreal-Chicago. THe West was won first, but I managed to get the core tickets done. I drew 4 crappy tickets, keeping Winnipeg to Houston. I had to work to avoid blockage. I succeeded in snagging a 4 green route from Tedd, but ended up a blue or a locomotive from completing the route.
Phil and Nick went ticket crazy and it paid off in spades.
Globetrotter bonus-Phil
Transamerica bonus-Robert
Phil-142
Robert-128
Nick-121
Tedd-88
Davido-72
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Posted Wed Sep 30, 2009 7:37 pm
