Tuesday, January 31, 2012

January 26, 2012 Session Report

There were six of us for this session -- it was Mike, Greg, Neville, Tim, Rembert and myself. We played a quick game of Cloud Nine as a starter, followed by two longer games: Agricola (which Tim had been hoping to play for some time), Power Grid with the new Robots expansion, and finally Lost Cities.

The Cloud Nine game was a four-player as we were hoping for more people to show up. Final scores were Mike 50, Greg 35, Neville 34, John 33. Mike got to 50, bailed out, and waited for the balloon to crash -- which it did. Good strategy there.

The Agricola game was also a four-player, with Tim and I introducing two new players (Neville and Rembert) to the game. We unfortunately were a couple of harvests from finishing, but it was clear that Tim, who had expanded twice early on with one action, was off to a big lead. Neville seemed to pick up the game and was probably second, while Rembert and I were playing catch-up.

Mike and Greg took on the new Power Grid expansion with the Robot as a dummy third player. It was mostly a case of figuring out how to apply the robot special abilities. No word on who won the game, except that the two human players did outperform the robot. Mike and Greg played a couple of hands of Lost Cities after that, which ended with a big margin in Greg's favor after Mike went negative on hand #2 after trying to close a fairly solid lead that Greg had from the initial hand.

Missed some folks this week, hope to see more of you next week.

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