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BEWC Meeting Recap 2/15/14

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Attendees: Michael Feinberg, Jim Halloran, Victor Liu,Scott Harris, Alex Jordan, Chris Cregan, Maria and Matt Willey

1) The Game of Thrones was the first game opened.  Jim took control of the Starks in the north, Michael as the Greyjoys in the west with Alex immediately below him as the Lannisters, Chris controlled the Baratheons in the east, Victor had the Tyrells in the south west, and Scott had the Martels in the south east.  At the start the Greyjoys made pacts with both neighbors as did the Martels and Baratheons. The Tyrells expanded quick but were unable to draw in reinforcements and was beaten back forced back to The Reach. The event deck had a profusion of Supply cards but no Musters or movement on the influence tracks had everyone off to a slow start, especially the Tyrells and Grayjoys.  Influence was plentiful though and by the halfway point the supply was almost exhausted for some.  The Starks had marched south progressively and a four way stand off was set up around the neck.  Southward the Martels slowly took territories uncontested by any other house.  Finally, both muster and bid cards were drawn and the stalemate ended.  The Greyjoys had saved the most and bid cunningly to be top or near top of all the tracks with the Baratheons close behind.  Using the new troops and power they struck at Winterfell and soundly defeated the few Stark troops still in the north.  At the same time the Baratheons struck at the Starks fleet, effectively cutting off their army to the south from reinforcing.  The Martels built and consolidated a large host to strike at the Tyrells but held back till victory was assured.  The Starks threw their effort into retaking Winterfell abandoning the fortresses they had taken on their journey south.  Finally, the Baratheons took two of these undefended keeps and the undefended Stormsend from the Martels for a victory in turn 8. Michael had the 2nd most keeps follwed by Alex and Victor who were tied.

2) Next up was Catan with the Cities and Knights expansion and the six player expansion.  Michael won with a heavy commodity driven economy.  Chris was second in the end with 10 points entirely from settlements and cities.  Alex had 9 with a balanced strategy (with one road shy of having longest road).  Matt ended with six after finding himself cut off early game but managing to build an extensive network or roads to compensate.  Jim and Maria both ended with five.

 

Club Business: The club voted to buy Exodus with the early year dues.

BEWC Meeting Recap 2/1/14

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Attendees: Dan Carey, Michael Feinberg,Chris Cregan, Bruce Clark, Brandan James Alex Jordan, Victor Liu Dave Landon, Karen Landon, and Alex Wright

Club Business: None.

Games Played
1) A game of Medici started the day off.Dave ended up winning with 84 to Bruce’s 71 Alex W. at 74, Victor had 61 and Michael ended in 2nd with 76.

2) Bruce had brought his new copy of Caverna and a game was quickly set up.  Michael dominated with 88 points in the end.  Alex W had 65 followed closely by Bruce at 64 and Victor at 59.

3) Alex, Jim, Dan and Chris played a couple rounds of Warparty with a turn limit of 12, though neither game got that far.  The first game had Chris and Dan on a team as Dwarves and Humans respectively.  Jim played the Undead and Alex the Goblins.  Jim immediately got out his hero and levied a magic tax on the Dwarves to slow them down.  Chris moved in on Alex quickly trying to capitalize on his quest to kill goblins.  Alex pulled his entire army and all his heros to defend his outposts which let the dwarves teleport into a mountain range boardering his stronghold and promptly end the game prematurely for a Good Forces victory.

The 2nd game had Dan playing the Goblins with Alex on as the Undead while Chris played the humans with Jim on as the Dwarves.  This game saw a lot more dungeon interactions with heroes scooping up relics or allies from explorations.  The undead and humans both gained mobile forces, the undead with a powerful wizard and bone dragon duo and the humans with a stable of knights backed by mage and priest.  Both Goblins and Dwarves massed large armies and feilded all of their heroes, though at the cost of their more advanced units.  Both Undead and Goblin heroes joined together to take on the dungeon in Goblin territory and were rewarded with a powerful unit.  However, this was within striking distance of both Human and Dwarven armies who converged in an attack.  It was a decisive victory for Good whose heroes jumped in level and power.   With this power the dwarves expanded out and built their third outpost.  Evil conceded after it was clear they could not destroy a good outpost and the goblins could not match the Dwarves (humans and undead already had built their outposts).

4) Brandan Won Castles of Burgundy with 243 just edging out Michael at 229.  It was the Landons first time at the game with David ending at 181 point and Karen with 174.

5)Airlines was brought out with Michael winning at 82, Dave at 71 and a three way tie for 64 between Chris, Brandan and Karen.

6)The night finished off with two games of Unspeakable Words.  In typical Lovecraftian fashion everyone went insane for the first game.  In the 2nd game insanely only Michael went mad after getting to 82 points.  Chris, at 91, was the only lucid one not to break 100.  Brandon won at 106, Karen at 105 and Dave at 102.