March 3, 2016 Session Report

We had a good crowd of 11 tonight, so there were three games going for most of the session. Attendees: Mike, Eugene, David, Ben, Alex, Greg, Arnold, Moon, Rembert, Lina and myself. Games played: BrewCrafters, Seeland, Pax Porfirana, Power Grid Deluxe: North America and Legendary.

BrewCrafters was a 4-player. Everyone had played before, so the game ran fairly smoothly. Final scores: John 101, Eugene 87, Moon 76, Alex 64. We played with the same rules used at the recent PrezCon tournament, using one extra marketplace tile (the Trader's market) and random draw for the Workers and Recipes. Moon went first and got the Brewpub Manager; I took Holiday Help in the second round (Summer of year 1) and I believe Eugene got the Storage Coordinator. Anyway, things worked well for me as I had an Advanced Lab that led to additional actions in the Winter, got an early Tasting Room and worked that along with Hops-Infusted ales. Eugene tried the Double Batch/bottom row strategy which did not quite work as well (points-wise). Moon posted a decent score to come in third while Alex did not fare as well as in prior games.

Seeland was also a four-player. Scores: mike 179 Greg 171 Ben 151 Lina 115. Comment on the game: Greg and Mike kept leapfrogging until Lina was forced to end the game, giving the win to Mike.

Pax Porfirana was our one three-player game, no scores but final standings were: David 1st, Arnold 2nd Rembert 3rd.

Power Grid was played with the Deluxe edition on the North America map. Scores were fairly close: Ben (the winner) had 16, then Mike, Greg and Lina followed, all with 15, second-third-fourth determined by the money tiebreaker.

Finally, Legendary was played by Arnold and Rembert. Don't believe the game made it to the finish line.