Meeting Recap 4/19/26

Attendees: Matt Ackerman, Michael Feinberg, Ryan Frans, Chris Gronau, Alex Jordan, Jessica Steinmann, Dave Olson, Chad Willard

Matt, Chris, Dave, and Chad attempted to save Middle Earth in Lord of the Rings: Fate of the Fellowship, but lost when they left Helms Deep undefended and a single shadow troop moved in and conquered it.

Michael, Ryan, Alex, and Jessica played Viticulture with the Bordeaux expansion, where Ryan won with 33 points, followed by Michael at 24 and Jessica just behind at 22.

Chris, Dave, and Chad gave Lord of the Rings: Fate of the Fellowship another try and this time were able to destroy the One Ring, though with only 2 hope remaining.

Michael, Ryan, Alex, and Jessica moved on to Monsters On Board, with Michael just edging out Jessica 202 to 200.

Michael, Ryan, Alex, and Jessica played two rounds of Flip 7. In the first Ryan pushed out his luck in the final round and got more than the 47 points he needed to beat Michael 236 to 229, despite Michael getting a 2x card in the final round. In the next game Alex was leading when they called it quits.

Michael, Ryan, Chris, Alex, Jessica, and Dave finished up with Bang: The Dice Game. Ryan, Jessica, and Alex won the first game as outlaws and the outlaws were again victorious in the second game for Ryan, Dave, and Jessica. 

Meeting Recap 1/17/26

Attendees: Chris Cregan, Michael Eisenberg, Michael Feinberg, Jim Halloran, Alex Jordan, Luciano Maffei, Jessica Steinmann, Ari Taylor

Games Played:

Chris, Michael E, Michael F, Alex, and Jessica played Bang: The Dice Game where Alex won as the renegade.

Chris, Michael E, Michael F, Jim, Alex, and Jessica played Shadow Hunters with Chris and Alex as the hunters winning.

Michael E, Jim, Alex, and Ari moved on to Lords of Waterdeep with Jim winning.

Chris, Michael F, Luciano, and Jessica played SETI where Chris had a powerful final round to defeat Michael 220 to 213.

Michael E, Jim, Alex, and Ari played two rounds of Splendor with Jim winning the first and Michael the second.

Chris, Michael F, and Jessica played The Fox Experiment. Chris won with 55 points to Jessica’s 41.

Michael E, Alex, and Ari finished up with Space Base where Michael won.

Meeting Recap 08/16/25

Attendees: Matt Ackerman, Michael Eisenberg, Brandon Garfield, Jim Halloran, Alex Jordan, Luciano Maffei, Dave Olson, Corlis Russell, Matt Skilton

Games Played:

Matt A, Alex, and Corlis played Dinosaur Island. Matt won.

Michael, Brandon, Jim, Luciano, Dave, and Matt S played Shadows Over Camelot. The knights were victorious (No traitor).

Brandon, Jim, and Dave played Cry Havoc. Brandon won.

Michael, Luciano, and Matt S played Nemesis: Retaliation. It was a quick loss for the good guys.

Alex and Corlis played Super Boss Monster, but were unable to complete the game.

Michael, Brandon, Jim, Alex, Luciano, Dave, and Matt S played Bang! The Dice Game 4 X. It was a good day for the law.

Meeting Recap 6/18/22

Attendees

Chris Cregan, David Olsen, Jeramee Scherer, Matt Ackerman, Michael Eisenberg

Games Played

Dave, Jeramee, Matt, and Michael started with a quick game of Bang The Dice Game that was won by the outlaws!  After Chris arrived a game of Ankh was played that was close, Jeramee managed to edge out Matt for the victory.  Matt had to leave afterward, so Chris, Dave, Jeramee, and Michael played two games of Nidavellir.  Michael won one and Jeramee won the other.

Meeting Recap 1/18/20

Attendees

Matt Ackerman, Chris Cregan, Michael Eisenberg, Michael Feinberg, Jim Halloran, Alex Jordan, Dave Olson, Ben Samuelson, Jeramee Scherer, and Wolfie Tuk

2020 Officers Elected:

  • President: Jim Halloran
  • Vice-President: David Olson
  • Treasurer: Michael Feinberg
  • Secretary: Jeramee Scherer

Games Played

Matt, Michael E, Michael F, Jim, Alex, Dave, Ben, Jeramee, and Wolfie started with Bang! The Dice Game. Alex was the sheriff, but took a lot or arrows, and some lucky rolls on Michael F’s second turn did 4 damage to him, leading to a quick outlaw victory for Michael, Michael E, and Dave.

Michael E, Jim, Alex, and Dave played Twilight Imperium, 4th Edition.

Chris, Michael F, and Ben played Ben’s new deluxe edition of Suburbia. Michael took an early lead on the star track, which helped him to a strong finish with 103 points to Ben’s 80.

Matt, Jeramee, and Wolfie played Blood Rage, with Wolfie winning.

Chris, Michael F, and Ben finished up with Bargain Quest, where Ben won with 17 points, followed by Chris at 15.

 

Meeting Recap 7/20/19

Attendees

Mary Bos, Chris Cregan, Michael Feinberg, Alex Jordan, Dave Olson, Wolfie Tuk, Carlo Torrella, Kasey Webster, and Kate Webster

Games Played

Mary, Alex, Carlo, and Michael started with Carlo teaching Gonuts for Donuts. Carlo finished first with 24 points, followed by Alex at 19.

Chris, Alex, and Carlo teamed up against Mary, Michael, Dave, and Wolfie in two rounds of Captain Sonar. Michael’s team sunk Chris’s in the first game, but they got revenge and won the second.

Mary, Chris, Michael, Alex, Dave, Wolfie, and Carlo then moved on to Between Two Cities. It was a well balanced game with all eight cities ending between 54 and 58 points, but Mary was victorious with her lowest city being 56.

Chris, Dave, Kasey and Kate played Elysium, where Chris won with 65 points followed by Kasey at 61.

Mary, Alex, Wolfie, and Michael played a successful game of Clank! In! Space!, where everyone made it back to the hanger, though Mary was knocked out before reaching an escape pod. Michael raked in the most loot with 125 points, followed by Alex at 102.

Chris, Michael, Alex, Dave, Wolfie, and Kasey then played two rounds of Downforce. Chris easily one the first race with $26 million, while Michael won the second with $25 million, both taking advantage of their first place position to get out ahead.

Chris, Alex, Dave, Wolfie, and Kasey then played two rounds of Bang! The Dice Game. Game 1: Alex (Sheriff) and Chris (Deputy) won against Wolfie (Outlaw), Dave (Outlaw) and Kasey (Renegade).  Game 2: Wolfie (Sheriff) and Chris (Deputy) won against Dave (Outlaw), Kasey (Outlaw) and Alex (Renegade)

Meeting Recap 6/17/17

Games Played

Castle Panic with the Wizards Tower expansion

Played by Jim, Alex, Mike, Chris and Mark

Cooperative Victory

Star Trek Ascendancy

Played by Matt, Mike, and Mark

Mike won

BANG! The Dice Game

Played by Jim, Selwyn, Jay, Chis, Alex, Dave and Marni

Shadow Hunters

Played by Jim, Selwyn, Jay, Chis, Alex, Dave and Marni

Chis won the 1st game, Dave won the 2nd

Coup

Played by Jim, Mark, Dave, Jay, Chris and Selwyn

Stone Age

Played by Alex, Mike and Chris

Alex won.

Legends of Andor

Played by Selwyn, Dave and Jay

New Purchases

Club voted to purchase Shadow Hunters and the Old Saloon expansion for BANG! The Dice Game.

Meeting Recap 3/18/17

Lords of Waterdeep

Played by Mike, Jim, Alex, Ben, Rob and Matt

Mike won

Blood Rage

Played by Chris, Dave O, Jay and Jeremy

Chris won

Assault of the Giants

Played by Jay, Dave O, Matt and Jim

Jay won

Power Grid

played by Chris, Vince and Alex

Chris won

Scythe

Played by Ben, Mike and Jeremy

Mike won

Kingsburg

Played by Mike, James. Ben, and Jeremy

James won

The day ended with several quick games of Coup and Bang

BEBGC Meeting Recap 11/19/16

Attendees

Matt Ackerman, Phil Davenport, Jim Halloran, Dave Olson, Ben Samuelson, Jeramee Scherer

Games Played

Jim, Dave and Jeramee played Hero Realms in the cooperative mode and were quickly defeated.

Jim, Dave and Jeramee played Hero Realms PVP. It was a close game, but Dave was able to hang on for the win.

Matt, Jim, Dave, Jeramee and Ben played Scythe. Jeramee got out to an early start and was able to play his sixth star first – ending the game – but in the end Ben pulled off the win with 52 points, followed by Matt with 50, Jeramee with 46, Dave with 39 and Jim with 35.

Phil, Jim, Dave, Ben and Jeramee played Ticket to Ride: Europe. Final scores: Dave had 119, Ben had 111, Phil had 106, Jim had 100 and Jeramee had 96.

Phil, Jim, Dave and Jeramee played Shadows over Camelot. The knights got out to a rocky start, with black swords outpacing white swords in the early game, but the knights were able to complete a few quests, getting a slight edge. That’s when Jim decided to accuse Dave of being a traitor. Dave proved his loyalty, but Jim’s accusation immediately threw suspicion on himself. On Dave’s next turn he accused Jim, who revealed himself to be the traitor. In the end the loyal knights were able to barely pull off the win, 7 white swords to 5 black.

Jim (Sheriff), Jeramee (Renegade), Phil (Outlaw), and Dave (Outlaw) played Bang! The Dice Game. The outlaws won taking out the sheriff.

Jim (Sheriff), Dave (Renegade), Phil (Outlaw), and Jeramee (Outlaw) played Bang! The Dice Game. Once again the outlaws were victorious.

Dave (Sheriff), Jim (Renegade), Phil (Outlaw), and Jeramee (Outlaw) played Bang! The Dice Game. Outlaws took another win!

Club Business

None

BEBGC Meeting Recap 05/21/16

Attendees

Matt Ackerman, Michael Feinberg, Jim Halloran, Robert Gohl, Ed McGran, Alex Jordan, Dave Olson, Jay Olson, Ben Samuelson, Jeramee Scherer

Games Played

Alex (Sheriff), Jeramee (Deputy), Jim (Renegade), Robert (Outlaw), Ben (Outlaw) and Michael (Outlaw) played Bang! The Dice Game. The outlaws won after an Indian attack killed the sheriff.

Michael (Imperials) and Ed (Rebels) played Star Wars: Rebellion, and the empire won.

Jeramee (Imperials) and Ben (Rebels) played Star Wars: Rebellion, and the empire won.

Overlord Jim went up against heroes Alex and Robert in Castle Panic, and the heroes won.

Dave and Jay played Star Realms, and Dave won.

Robert, Ben, Matt and Alex played Firefly: The Game and Matt won.

Jim, Dave, Jay and Jeramee played Samurai Swords and Dave won.

Robert, Michael and Alex played Firefly: The Game and Robert won.

Club Business

None