October 25, 2012 Session Report

Sorry for not posting this report sooner, as the rush of EuroQuest prep items took priority in recent days.

We had a total of nine in attendance for this session:  Mike, Ben, Tim, John B, Rembert, Matthew Martin (a first-timer at the club) were joined later in the session by Helen and Stan.  We only played a couple of games, both new Essen games that Mike and I were planning on demoing at next week's EuroQuest convention:  CO 2 (designed by Portugese game designer Vital Lacerda) and CopyCat (designed by Friedemann Friese, German game designer best known for Power Grid).

The CO 2 game saw global pollution reach a high of 480, just short of the all-players' lose scenario at 500.  With five players, plus a huge learning curve for a rather, long meaty game, it was quite challenging.  I sat out and tried to keep things moving, in addition to responding to any questions.  We finished four of the five decades and then tallied the score as if the game had ended.  The result was a three-way tie between Rembert, John B and Matthew, each with 43 points.  The tiebreaker (most plants built) favored Rembert, three to two for the others.  Tim (at 39 points) and Ben (at 35) trailed.  Everyone seemed to find the game challenging and interesting.

Mike split off from the group to take a look at Copycat.  Helen arrived later in the session and joined in.  Stan arrived even later but did not play any games.  Mike was able to get the rules down well enough to conduct a teaching demo at EuroQuest.

There will be no session report for Thursday, November 1, as Mike, I and many of our attendees were at EuroQuest, so regular reports will begin with the November 8th session.