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BEWC Meeting Recap 11/19/11

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Attendees: John Boyle, Dan Carey, Chris Cregan, Aaron Farmer, Rachel Farmer, Michael Feinberg, Ryan Frans, Michael Kelly, Dave Olson, and a brief appearance by Alex Wright.

Club Business: None

Games Played:

1) Ryan and Dave played Space Empires 4X. Dave tried a more defensive posture with mines, which worked OK a couple of times, but Ryan was able to research Mine Sweeper technology and Dave’s mines ended up being fairly ineffective in the end. Ryan was victorious.

2) Michael F and Chris played 2 rounds of Lost Cities, with Michael winning.

3) John, Dan, Chris and Michael F started up a game of Alien Frontiers, with Michael K taking over for Michael F part of the way through. Chris came away with the win on that one.

4) John, Dan, Chris and Michael K played a game of Citadels, with Chris taking the win on that one, too.

5) John, Dan, Chris, Aaron, Rachel, Ryan, Michael K and Dave played Shadows Over Camelot. Things were looking OK for the loyal knights with the white swords on the table outnumbering the black. Then Aaron revealed himself as the traitor, playing a card that made the rest of us discard a bunch of cards. We were still hanging on, but the catapults were starting to accumulate, and every evil Excalibur and Grail card added another one to the field (since those quests were over). We were up to 11 catapults in play, with a fading glimmer of hope for the good guys, when Rachel elected to place a catapult for her Progression of Evil phase, revealing that she was also a traitor, winning the game for the traitors.

6) Aaron, Rachel, Ryan, Michael K and Dave played Citadels. Rachel ran away with it.

BEWC Meeting Recap 11/5/11

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Attendees: Dan Carey, Tom Dunford, Michael Feinberg, Ryan Frans, Joe Kauffman, Michael Kelly, Dave Landon, Karen Landon, Jesse Lute, Jason Molstad, Lane Taylor, Alex Wright, Elaine Wright

Club Business: None

Games Played:

1) Dan, Michael, Dave, and Jason started off with a game of Pandemic, but were fairly quickly overtaken by outbreaks and lost when we ran out of black disease cubes

2) Tom, Dave, and Ryan then spent most of the rest of the day playing Space Empires 4X. Ryan spent his efforts beating Tom back most of the way to oblivion, allowing Dave to sweep in for the victory.

3) Dan, Michael F, Jason, and Lane played Merchants & Marauders. It was the first time playing for everyone, but Michael had gone through the rules and we picked it up pretty quickly. Dan got off to an early lead striking it rich as a merchant, while Michael has some early success as a pirate picking off NPC merchant ships. Michael thought he had achieved victory when in two turns he picked up 4 (of the 10 necessary) glory points through completing a mission, selling 3 good in demand, proving a rumor true, and sinking a French naval frigate, and he needed only to get back to his home port and stash his gold to win. Just after he made it to port, but before his next turn when he could stash his booty, Dan cashed in his own earnings and won the game.

4,5) Joe and Michael K teemed up to play Attika, which Joe won, then played Axis & Allies: D-Day, where Joe upturned history, successfully defending as the Germans.

6,7) Karen, Alex, and Elaine played a round of 7 Wonders and then were joined by Jesse for a second round with the leaders expansion. Alex won both games, with impressive scores of 67 and 72.

8) Michael F, Karen, Jesse, and Alex played Ra, where Alex just edged out Karen, 47 to 46.

9) Michael F, Joe, Jason, and Alex Galaxy Trucker. Joe always seemed to take the longest to assemble his ships, which is usually a significant handicap, but this time perfection paid off and let him haul home big cargo loads in the second and third rounds and win the game.

10, 11) Michael K, Jesse, and Elaine played two games of Dominion Seaside with Elaine winning both.

12) Joe, Karen, and Jason played Metro with Karen wining.

13) Dave, Karen, and Elaine played Guillotine, where Dave was victorious.

14, 15) Joe, Michael K, Jesse, and Jason played two games of Ca$h ‘n Gun$ (the second with the advanced rules) where Jason won the first and Joe the second.

16) Michael F and Alex finished up with a game of Twilight Struggle. It was Michael’s first game and he was completely unable to overcome the experience disadvantage, with Alex’s US achieving complete domination over the Soviets by the 5th turn.