Attendees
Chris Cregan, Michael Feinberg, David Landon, Zoe Landon, and Gerald Power
Games Played
Michael, David, Zoe, and Gerald played Isle of Cats, where Michael just beat out Zoe for the win 106 to 101.
Chris, Michael, David, Zoe, and Gerald than played Istanbul where David readily won, gettings his 5th ruby while everyone else had only 2 or 3.
Chris, David, Zoe, and Gerald finished off with a game of Ca$h ‘n Gun$
Attendees
Aimee Clare, Chris Cregan, Michael Feinberg, Scott Harris, Brandan James, and David Landon
Games Played
Aimee, Chris, Michael, Scott, and Dave started off with a four hands of Love Letter, where Aimee was the most successful suitor, winning 2.
They then moved on two games of 7 Wonders with the Armada expansion. Michael won the first game with 75 points going heavily into both blue cards and blue ships, followed by Chris at 72. The second game had much higher scoring, with Chris winning with 89 points, largely from guilds, follow by Michael with 85.
Brandon then joined them for two rounds of Ca$h ‘n Gun$. In the first game only Chris, Michael, and Brandan survived, with Brandan having the most cash at $110,000. In the second game, Brandan was again the winner, though this time only with $70,000, followed by Dave with $65,000 while Scott and Michael had amassed $75,000 each but were killed in the final shoot out.
Chris, Michael, Scott, Brandan, and Dave tried out five player Dinosaur Island. Chris ran away with the game, ending with 131 points, but everyone else was extremely close with Dave at 99, Michael at 98, Scott at 96, and Brandan at 92.
Attendees
Eray Aksit, Dan Carey, Chris Cregan, Michael Feinberg, Scott Harris, Dave Landon, Karen Landon, Ben Samuelson, Alex Wright
Games Played
Chris, Michael, Dave, Karen, Ben, and Alex started out with Ca$h ‘n Gun$ where Michael was the best gangster, just edging out Karen with $85,000 in loot to her $80,000.
Everyone then tried out the club’s new copy of Captain Sonar. Ben started as the captain of the blue submarine with Scott, Dave and Karen on his crew. Michael led the yellow submarine with Chris and Alex. The first game was played with the turn-based-rules and was closely fought, but the yellow team managed to sink blue. For the second game, Eray joined the crew of the yellow submarine and Alex took his turn in the captains chair. We switched to the chaos of the real time rules and this time blue was victorious. For the final game, Dan stepped in for Dave on the blue team and Chris took his turn as yellow captain. Chris’s rapid fire commands kept blue guessing and yellow was able to find a sink them.
Eray and Dave refought history with 1960: The Making of a President, but history largely repeated itself with Dave winning the election as Kennedy with 308 votes in the electoral college.
Dan, Chris, Scott, and Ben played Kemet with Chris taking the victory with 10 points over Ben’s 9.
Michael taught Viticulture to Karen and Alex and ended up as the most successful vintner at 28 points, but Alex was close behind at 23/
Chris, Michael, Scott, Dave, and Karen finished up with Airlines Europe. Karen was by far the most successful business person, amassing 89 points with Michael in second at 68 and the rest of the table close behind.
Attendees: Chris Cregan, Michael Feinberg, Scott Harris, Brandan James, Dave Landon, Karen Landon, Angela Li, Ed McGran, Kerri Olson, Byron Varin, Alex Wright, Phillip
Games Played
Michael, Scott, Ed, Byron, and Phillip tried out the club’s new copy of Dead of Winter. They played the introductory “We Need Samples” mission, but inadvertently selected the hard core difficulty. The group lost from moral, but with more statistically likely rolls on collecting samples after killing zombies, probably could have won.
A second game of Dead of Winter was played, with Chris replacing Scott, this time the “Raiding Party” scenario, also on hard core. It started off with a player dead from a bite on the first move and went downhill from there, with the group soon lost.
Brandan, Dave, and Alex played Five Tribes, with Dave winning.
The three of the moved on to XCOM: The Board Game and defeated the aliens.
Brandan and Dave played 7 Wonders: Duel, where Dave won again after Brandan was stuck in a swamp.
Chris, Brandan, Kerri, and Angela played Castles of Mad King Ludwig with the Secrets expansion with Angela building the most fantastical castle.
Chris, Brandan, Dave, Karen, Kerri, and Angela faced off in Ca$h ‘n Gun$ where Kerri was the most successful gangster.
They finished up with Mister X with the investigators finding Kerri’s Mister X.
Attendees: Dan Carey, Michael Feinberg, Scott Harris, Brandan James, Dave Landon, Karen Landon, and Alex Wright
Club Business: None.
Games Played
1) Dan, Michael, Scott, Karen, Dave, Karen, and Alex started off with Unspeakable Words. Michael won with 109 points with Dave behind the 100-point threshold with 99. Alex and Scott went insane.
2) Dan, Michael, Scott, Brandan, Karen, Dave, Karen, and Alex then moved on to 7 Wonders with both the Cities and Leaders expansions. Nobody could stop Alex’s science machine and his 81 point victory, Dave came in second with 69, with the rest of the pack close behind with only five points separating 2nd and 5th places.
3) Michael, Scott, Dave, and Karen split off for Star Trek Catan where Michael made good use of McCoy’s support to go through the development deck and get the cards he needed for largest star fleet, edging out the win from Dave 10 points to 9.
4) Dan, Brandan, and Alex played Castles of Burgundy, which Alex one with a commanding 236 points over Dan’s 191 in second place.
5, 6) Dan, Michael, Brandan, Karen, Dave, Karen, and Alex played two rounds of Ca$h ‘n Gun$. In the first Dan one with $85,000 and Alex just behind with $80,000. For the second game, individual player powers were added, leading to a more brutal game iwht both Dave and Dan dying and Michael sneaking in with a $105,000 win with Alex in second at $95,000.
7) Dan, Michael, Brandan, Karen, Dave, and Karen hunted Alex in Scotland Yard, and despite a nice early breakout by Mr. X, Alex was hunted down in round 10.
8) Michael, Brandan, Karen, and Alex played Smash Up with victory being snatched from Michael’s Alien Zombies when Alex broke a base one round for Michael could break his. Alex’s Ninja Dinosaurs were victorious with 17 points, with Karen’s Robot Wizards in second.
9) Dave, Karen, and Alex finished up with a game of Samurai.
Attendees: Dan Carey, Karen Deitrick, KC Deitrick, Tom Dunford, Michael Feinberg, Linda Galperin, Lionel Galperin, Joe Kauffman, Michael Kelly, Dave Landon, Karen Landon, Alex Wright, Elaine Wright, Shawn Yoon
Club Business: None.
Games Played:
1) Dan, Tom, Michael F, Joe, Michael K, Dave, and Karen L started with a full 7 player game of 7 Wonders with the Leaders expansion. Joe took advantage of his Babylon wonder to acquire 3 full sets of science cards and then Aristotle’s bonus to get 3 extra points per set for a whopping 57 science related points and 70 total points, just edging out Dan’s 69 points (fairly evenly split between blue cards, military, and wonder points.)
2) Dan, Tom, Michael F, Michael K, Dave played Mare Nostrum. The game was fairly balanced but minor border skirmishes between everyone except Dave’s Roman empire kept everyone distracted with the military side of the game. Michael F’s Carthaginians had just managed to acquire the first of three wonders/leaders needed to win the game when Dave’s massed armies swept in, stealing a rich province before it could be reinforced. Those additional resources gave Dave the Director of Commerce title and allowed him to steer the trading phase so he could acquire all 12 unique resources and built the pyramids winning the game.
3) Lionel, Joe, Alex, Elaine, and Shawn played Kingsburg with the To Forge a Realm expansion. Alex just edged out Joe for the victory, winning by 3VP.
4) Karen D, KC, Linda, and Karen L played Galaxy Trucker where Karen L ran away with the win.
5,6) Linda, Lionel, Dave, Karen L, Elaine, and Shawn played two rounds of Ca$h ‘n Gun$, with Linda and Lionel winning one each.
7) Michael F, Joe, Michael K, and Alex played Innovation using the Echoes of the Past expansion for the first time. The game settled down into a fairly balanced game with Michael F, Joe, and Michael K all acquiring 3 of the 5 necessary achievements and Alex having just caught up with 2 when Joe dogma’d Fission and a red card was revealed destroying the world and removing all of the accumulated score, tableau, and hand cards from the game. With most of the low age cards eliminated, we rebuilt from the ground up, drawing and melding trying to work back up to the largely untouched age 9 and 10 decks. Joe managed a few combinations to accumulate a decent score and likely would have one if the game ended from exhausting the age 10 deck, when Alex comboed stem cells and bioengineering to leave him with the most leaf icons and satisfy bioengineering’s special win condition.
8) While the game of Innovation rebuilt from the stone age, Dave and Shawn finished up with a game of Lord of the Rings: The Confrontation. Shawn controlling the forces of Mordor managed to wipe out almost all of Dave’s fellowship, but Sam sacrificed himself to the cave troll, allowing Frodo to sneak past and make it to Mordor and win the game for Dave.
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.
Attendees: Chad Willard, Dave Olson, Jay Olson, Scott Harris, Ryan Frans, Josh Lichti, John Boyle, Jack McNaughton, Michael Feinberg, Dave Landon, Scott Makowksy, Jeff Bowen, Josh Bowen, Jason Bowen
Club Business:
New officers elected:
President: Dave Landon
Vice President: John Boyle
Treasurer: Dave Olson
Secretary: Michael Feinberg
2011 dues should be paid to Dave Olson – $10/member + $5/family member up to a max of $20
The club accepted copies of Axis & Allies Europe 1940 and Axis & Allies Pacific 1940 from Jack McNaughton in trade for 5 years of dues
Games Played:
1) Chad, Scott H, Ryan, and Josh L played a curse heavy game of Dominion, which Josh won with Chad and Scott having negative scores.
2,3) Dave O and Jay joined them for a game each of Zombie Dice and Cthulu Dice, with Dave winning Zombies, and Jay winning Cthulu.
4) Michael, John, and Jack played Citadels, with Michael winning.
5) Scott H, John, Jack, Chad, and Michael played Descent. Scott had an overlord win with the party only about halfway through the dungeon.
6) Dave O, Jay, and Ryan played War of the Rings with Ryan leading the Free People to a victory
7) Dave L and Scott M played Twilight Struggle, with Dave having a win for the communists
8,9) Jeff, Josh B, Jason, Ryan, Dave O, and Jay played two games of Ca$h ‘n Gun$ with Jeff and Jason winning one each
10) Jeff, Josh B, Jason, Dave O, and Jay played Betrayal at House on the Hill, with the party just barely defeating Josh’s Zombie Lord.
11) Dave L and Scott M played Dominion with Dave winning
12) John, Dave L, Scott M played a high scoring game of Dominion Prosperity with John winning
13) Michael, Chad, and Scott H played Dominion Intrigue with Chad winning