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BEWC Meeting Recap 6/21/14

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Attendees: Michael Feinberg, Jim Halloran, Dave Olson

1,2) Michael, Jim and Dave started off with two rounds of Dave’s new game Space Maze. In the first, Jim was the first to get one of his explorer’s to the relic and despite Michael and Dave each stealing it once, Jim was able to get it back and make it back to his ship with it. In the second, some good luck with cards and dice let Michael make a quick dash to the relic before anyone was close and make an easy escape back to his ship.

3,4,5) They then moved on to Dominion, using a mix of the base game, Intrigue, Seaside, and,Prosperity. In the first game, Michael managed to rack up 11 VP tokens through the use of the Bishop, but it wasn’t enough for him to catch Dave who won 42 to 38. The second game was also close, with Michael wining with 41 points to Dave’s 35 and Jim’s 32. The third game was a bit odder, with Platinum and Colony’s from Prosperity coming out, but very few cards that gave additional money and nothing giving multiple actions. Early in the game Michael was able to Throne Room Sea Hag several times, clogging up Jim and Dave’s decks with curses, after which the game settled into a long slog. Few provinces or colonies were bought and everyone’s decks had close to 50 cards by the time three of the supply piles were empty. Michael had managed to throne room Monument several times for VP tokens and align his cards to buy two colonies, giving him a 49 point win over Dave’s 28.

6) They finished off with Thurn and Taxis, where Jim just plowed through the carriage cards giving him a quick win with 15 points. Michael had accumulated a large number of bonus tiles, but they only added up to 13 points.

BEWC Meeting Recap 6/7/14

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Attendees: Brandon James, Michael Feinberg, Scott Harris, Victor Lui, Alex Wright, Chris Cregan, Karen and Dave Landon

1) Scott, Victor, Alex and Chris all pretended to be giant monsters destroying a city in Rampage.  They began the game by ignoring the buildings, people and objectives and instead focused on knocking each other’s teeth out.  Only after the majority of players had two teeth left (the minimum) did they focus on taking down the buildings.  Until it was discovered that you could steal people from other monsters by attacking them at which point they continued their monster brawl, ignoring the last standing building until it was destroyed by accident.Scott ended with the most people and a score of 33.  Alex ate the most floors and ended with 26.  Chris had the most teeth and ended with 17.  Victor destroyed the most building but only ended with six points.

2) Michael had completed his all-in-one box for his Dominion set.  They, Michael, Victor, Scott and Karen then played a heavily seaside influenced deck with both sea hag and the pirate ship.  It came down to the tie breaker (turn order) with Victor just edging out Scott both at 27.  Michael had 22 and Karen had 11.

3) Alex, Chris, Brandon and Dave all played Coup d’etat.  Alex won with 15300 after a succesful Coup against Dave in the first few turns of his rule.  Brandon was 2nd with 11700 managing to hold his entire reign Coupless.  Dave managed to regain some points due to his lost director ship by couping Chris and got back to 10000 evenly.  Chris ended with 2900.

4) Chris, Karen, Alex, Brandon, Dave and Michael then played 7 Wonders with Leaders.  Dave won at 70, Michael 65, Alex 63, Chris 49 and Brandon and Karen at 44.

5) Chris Karen, Dave, Michael and Brandon played a game of Robo Rally.  Everyone jumped on a giant conveyor belt to carry them to the first goal. As expected everyone was pelted by lasers for several turns as they were all following each other.  Dave managed to get off first successfully at the goal, while only Chris found himself falling into a pit due to getting bumped.  Dave got close to the final goal but found several of his tracks locked and this made progress slow.  Chris managed to not only catch up but pass ahead to victory due in large part to a clean deck and a fairly open board.

6)  Finally Chris, Dave, Michael, Brandon and Karen played Snowdonia.  Michael won with 135 points, followed by Dave at 101, Chris at 99, Karen at 75 and Brandon at 74.