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San Antonio Board Gamers Monster Session 12/19/11
Brian Bankler
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By my count at one time (near 8pm), we had no less than twenty-seven members at our SABG meeting tonight (and a few more may have drifted in and out). That's a monster session by any count! We practically ran Dragon's Lair out of space (OK, not really. The Go club had a table, a few tables of Magic players, a role playing session or two in side rooms, and a side room of Warhammer. It's a great store!)
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1. Board Game: 1st & Goal [Average Rating:7.32 Overall Rank:1836]
Brian Bankler
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The opener. I managed to fall down 21-0 before tying the game at 24-24 before losing 31-24. Not bad. I'd tweak this a bit if we played it a lot, but it's not bad. A less serious version of football strategy. (Actually, I think there's a great crossover game potential, ditching the cards and using FS for timing and building a chart for dice). Got played several other times, I think
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Frederic Bush
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Yeah, this got played a lot. It's fun!
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  • Posted Tue Dec 20, 2011 7:09 am
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I like that IF you're playing with strategy, there's definitely influence there. But if you're just wanting a brainless dice fest, you can play it that way too. Really good gateway game in that sense, and it *feels* correct to the theme. I mentioned a few times that I feel like the coach on the sideline calling great plays but having a penalty or a bad dice roll mess it up, and want to yell at my players coming off the field - "You can't be taking stupid penalties at this point in the game! You cost your TEAM a first down with your immaturity!"
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  • Posted Tue Dec 20, 2011 3:08 pm
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I think you should yell at your dice to motivate them in any game.
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  • Posted Tue Dec 20, 2011 3:10 pm
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2. Board Game: Walnut Grove [Average Rating:6.98 Overall Rank:998]
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I played in one game, I think it got played again.
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I've heard people are receiving their correctly-punched counter and coin replacements in the mail, so I should have those soon. I'm glad to see people liking this one - I like it, and think it fits the bill ESPECIALLY in fun/time ratio...
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  • Posted Tue Dec 20, 2011 3:09 pm
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3. Board Game: Panic Station [Average Rating:6.54 Overall Rank:1044]
Brian Bankler
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We played with a homebrew set of rules -- The bugs are smart (don't move if they can attack, automatically move towards people if adjacent) but humans can burn gas to kill a bug. (Seriously, the lack of ammo is stupid). This was pretty good, except the map randomly shut us all up so everyone without a keycard was stuck. And one key card was buried. Still, I managed to infect one person (who failed and alerted two others) and still spread the sickness again.

The game ended with everyone losing -- The humans had no gas but the parasites killed all the infected...

Better, but still needs more house rules. One idea -- dead people's cards go back into draw deck (drawn infections and host card have no effect, and are discarded). And I think the androids should get one free punch a turn (maybe only against humans). Perhaps spending a gas should let a human clear a room. Too many changes, probably.
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These house rules are creeping into "Just make a better game already" territory. Take a crack at it! You can put bullets in the guns!
 
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  • Posted Wed Dec 21, 2011 8:55 pm
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4. Board Game: Survive!: The Giant Squid [Average Rating:7.10 Unranked] [Average Rating:7.10 Unranked]
Brian Bankler
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Squids feasted on tasty humans.
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5. Board Game: Race for the Galaxy: The Brink of War [Average Rating:8.08 Unranked] [Average Rating:8.08 Unranked]
Brian Bankler
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A quick two player game of this happened while we were waiting for a game to break up...
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6. Board Game: Fauna [Average Rating:7.20 Overall Rank:346]
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Love, love, love the adjacent rule meeple If only that mechanic could apply in Tichu!
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Frederic Bush
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I heart silky anteaters
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  • Posted Tue Dec 20, 2011 7:17 am
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I firmly believe that Fauna is merely one group pulling a joke on outsiders by trying to convince them this is an actual game and then laughing at those who fall for it.

Like Cricket.


I have to say it's great to watch people's faces when I tell them "It's an animal trivia game by Friedman Friese". It sounds horrible... even I thought so when someone roped me into a game of it at the con.
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  • Posted Tue Dec 20, 2011 6:14 pm
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I quite like it. And I was mad at Sean when he guilted me into playing last week. It's a fun game. There's enough gamery mechanics there to make it more than just a trivia game. I'd play this over Wits and Wagers any day of the week.
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  • Posted Tue Dec 20, 2011 6:26 pm
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I keep missing this, despite the fact that I am probably one of the few people who would put "Guessing the size of animals" near the top of my Idea of a Good Time list.
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  • Posted Wed Dec 21, 2011 8:51 pm
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oldgregg wrote:
I keep missing this, despite the fact that I am probably one of the few people who would put "Guessing the size of animals" near the top of my Idea of a Good Time list.


There were a couple that skunked all guessers; the worst was the one where the picture on the card was bigger than the actual animal, a "slow worm" or something -- no one was even close. The pygmy sperm whale is also surprisingly petite.

 
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7. Board Game: Chaos in the Old World: The Horned Rat Expansion [Average Rating:8.17 Unranked] [Average Rating:8.17 Unranked]
Frederic Bush
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This started up while I was playing Fauna. I should have my own copy soon to bring :-)
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8. Board Game: Ingenious [Average Rating:7.33 Overall Rank:129]
Frederic Bush
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Taught this one at the end of the night
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9. Board Game: Olympos [Average Rating:7.27 Overall Rank:394]
Frederic Bush
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I think the Mortal Kombat symbols were winning
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I want to play this.
 
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When I saw the board all setup, I had flashbacks of Colosseum for some reason, and I shuddered.
 
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  • Posted Tue Dec 20, 2011 6:27 pm
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10. Board Game: A Few Acres of Snow [Average Rating:7.96 Overall Rank:41]
Frederic Bush
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Canada can apparently be found in Room 3
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Minor raiding happened, but all in all it was more of a cold war (especially in Canada during the winter) as both sides spent their time building up their cities. I triggered end game by building my last upgraded city and when the VPs were tallied, I barely won by owning Detroit.
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  • Posted Tue Dec 20, 2011 2:24 pm
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UncleLothar wrote:
I barely won by owning Detroit.


Nobody wins by owning Detroit.

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  • Posted Tue Dec 20, 2011 6:28 pm
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I was looking for a good joke about Detroit and couldn't think of one, so I just left it to SABG to fill it in for me. Glad it worked! cool
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11. Board Game: Magical Athlete [Average Rating:6.70 Overall Rank:1271]
Frederic Bush
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I believe Mr. Bankler was patient zero on this one
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12. Board Game: Blood Bowl: Team Manager - The Card Game [Average Rating:7.67 Overall Rank:134]
Scott Awesome
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We got a good 4-player game of this in.
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13. Board Game: Down In Flames: WWII-Guns Blazing [Average Rating:7.61 Overall Rank:3374]
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Campaign session 2. The Allied Ace Pilot manages to down the Japanese bombers before they can Kamikaze the carrier, but he is the sole Allied survivor of the skirmish. The remaining Japanese fighters bug out as theirs is a lost cause.
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And it's a good thing too! I'll take you all together! I'll bite your kneecaps! Don't give me your "numbers superiority" and "4 against 1" bunk...
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  • Posted Tue Dec 20, 2011 3:05 pm
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Brian Bankler
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Have you considered decaf?
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  • Posted Tue Dec 20, 2011 3:11 pm
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Bankler wrote:
Have you considered decaf?


That's not a good career move. arrrh
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14. Board Game: Alea Iacta Est [Average Rating:6.65 Overall Rank:739]
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I saw Juan and a few others playing this when I left....
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Victoria, John, Ryan 1.0 (back from oblivion!), Ana Maria and myself. Victoria won by being agressively into the "forum" followed by John who amassed quite a bit of provinces. I had never played with the "fortuna" tokens, and tried that to find that you really need a lot of those little tokens to make a difference.
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15. Board Game: Space Hulk: Death Angel - The Card Game [Average Rating:7.06 Overall Rank:291]
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The Marines managed to clear the Space Hulk and the genestealers were defeated. My entire chapter was wiped out, but Brother Leon will be remembered. For the Emperor!
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It's the holidays, and even though I have to work through wednesday, (my school district gets extra days off after new years) I wasn't going to miss holiday cheer, and hope to make Thursday night as well at Gamelot, though Saturday night is out because of "family" obligations.
Walnut Grove makes it to my hot list after one play, I did horribly!
First and goal needs investigation. I enoyed the three games I got to play and the chance to talk to Scott about the new hotness.
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