Friday, September 21, 2007

September 20, 2007 Session Report

Attendees: Paul, Doug, Stan, Eric, Sarah, Clayton and myself (7 total).

Games Played: Qwirkle, Sequence (4x), If Wishes Were Fishes, Winners Circle, Lost Cities, Twilight Struggle, Amun-Re, TransAmerica.

Highlights: Three of us got there are few minutes early and we played a game of Qwirkle using the interesting homemade bag brought by Doug who also supplied the game. The scores were very close: Paul 131 John 127 Doug 121. Doug got the 6-point bonus for ending the game but Paul and I got more of the 6-point bonuses during the game.

Clayton and Eric arrived and played a game that seems to be Clayton's new favorite, Sequence. Clayton and Eric split a pair of two-player games and were joined by Stan in a couple of three-player games, of which Clayton and Stan were the two winners. Meanwhile, at the other table, Sarah joined the earlier trio of Doug, Paul and myself in a game of If Wishes Were Fishes, and ran away with what started out as a fairly close contest. Final scores in that one were Sarah 86, John 76, Doug 60 Paul 53.

At this point there was a bit of chaos as Eric, Stan and Clayton had started up a game of Winners Circle, while Doug took on Sarah in Lost Cities. Stan and Paul took a bit of a break, so I filled in for a round in the Winners Circle game, then Paul finished up the game while Stan and I started up Twilight Struggle. The final totals of the Winners Circle (a remake of Royal Turf that uses the names of real-life champion horses) was Eric 2700 Stan/John/Paul 1950 Clayton 1150. The Lost Cities game was a high-scoring affair, Doug 171 to 120 for Sarah (I assume they played three hands).

While Stan and I relived the Cold War with Twilight Struggle, Eric, Doug, Paul and Sarah went back to ancient times for a game of Amun-Re. The Twilight Struggle game ended with an automatic victory for the Russians (me) as I pushed the VP marker to 20 on Turn 4, with the world tottering on the brink of nuclear war at Defcon 2 for much of the game. The Amun-Re game lasted close to the 10 PM closing time, with a win for Eric (48) ahead of Doug (44) Paul (41) and then Sarah (32).

The Cold War ended earlier than expected so Clayton joined Stan and I for a quick game of TransAmerica using the new variant where each player gets to lay three sections of track that only they can run on. (Forget the name of it -- we used some Settlers pieces to represent the special track sections.) I believe I won after about 3 rounds or so over Stan when Clayton went off the ledge.

All in all, a fun session, hope to see everyone back next week in addition to a few of you who missed out this week!

1 comment:

Eric Haas said...

The TransAmerica expansion is called “Vexation”.