June 21, 2012 Session Report

Apologize for being a bit late with this report, as it's been a busy past few days.

Last session we had attendance of 11, including two first-time attendees (Jack and Kristina) along with Tim, Jay, Mike, Doug H, Patrick, Ben, Eric K (whom we haven't seen in awhile), Rembert and yours truly.  We had three games going most of the time.  We played the Blood Bowl card game, Helvetia, Ticket to Ride 1910, Ingenious (twice) and Cheeky Monkey.  Here's a few details on the games we played.

First up were two games that took most of the evening.  One, the Blood Bowl card game, turned out to be a rout for Kristina, who outdistanced Patrick, Jay and Doug.  Final scores were 48-33-31-24 in Kristina's favor.  The other "long" game was Helvetia, which Mike had brought.  I joined in and one of the two new players, Tim, managed to edge me for the win.  Scores were:  Tim 24, John 22, Mike 17, Rembert 13.

Eric, Jack and Ben played a couple of shorter games.  One was 1910 Mega, using the US map with the newer version.  No scores available, but the report I got had Eric winning with Jack second and Ben third.  This trio then played Ingenious, which Ben won.  Eric was second, Jack third.  Then Ben took his leave, and Eric and Jack played a two-player Ingenious.  That one was won by Eric.

Still there was time for one more game, and it was Cheeky Monkey.  Doug and I cleaned up as the other three players had problems building a stack to withstand the numerous steals and forced trades.  Doug won most of the bonuses to take the win, 49 with my 36 (usually a winning score with 5 players) only good for second.  Rembert, Jay and Kristina collectively had nine animals at game's end and no bonus points.