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BEBGC Meeting Recap 01/16/16

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Attendees

Matt Ackerman, Michael Feinberg, Lionel Galperin, Robert Gohl, Jim Halloran, Alex Jordan, Gary Pearson, Ben Samuelson, Jeramee Scherer

Club Business

2016 Officers were elected:
President: Chris Cregan
Vice President: Jim Halloran
Treasurer: Michael Feinberg
Secretary: Dave Olson

Games Played

Michael, Robert, Jim, Alex, and Ben started with Castle Panic, where they succesfully defended the castle with only two towers destroyed.

Matt, Lionel, Jim, and Jeramee played Cosmic Encounter. Jeramee’s Traders tagged along with Lionel’s Misers for the shared victory.

Michael, Robert, Alex, and Ben played the Desperadoes mission of Firefly with the Kalidasa and Pirates and Bounty Hunters expansions. Michael and Robert both suffered heavy setbacks at the hands of the reavers and it seemed like Ben had won the game when he was first over $15,000 and announced last call, but Alex swept in and sold all of the cargo and contraband he had been collecting through salvage ops and won the game with $18,800 to Ben’s $18,000.

Matt and Lionel contested their fleets in Star Wars Armada with Matt’s rebels emerging victorious.

Jim, Gary, and Jeramee ran two races of Formula D with Jim winning the first and Jeramee the second.

Lionel, Jim, and Gary played several rounds of Tsuro with Jim winning three times, Lionel and Gary one each, and one tie between Jim and Gary.

Michael, Alex, and Robert finished up with 7 Wonders, where it looked like Michael was in the lead, but Alex topped him 64 to 58 from his 36 points of science.

BEBGC Meeting Recap 11/07/15

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Attendees

Chris Cregan, Michael Feinberg, Jim Halloran, Brandan James, Alex Jordan, Dave Landon, Karen Landon, Ben Samuelson, Tim Sanker

Games Played

Some people may have played Kingdoms.

Chris, Brandan,  Dave and Karen played Betrayal at House on the Hill.  Karen turned on the group and managed to kill everyone except Brandan before she was banished.

Chris, Brandan,  Dave and Karen played Castles of Mad King Ludwig.  Dave was the most mad-king-like and won.

Michael, Chris, Brandan and Dave played Terra Mystica and Dave stumbled his way into a solid win.

Ben, Jim, Alex and Michael played Dominion.

Next Brandan, Chris, Tim and Dave played XCOM: The Board Game and soundly trounced the aliens.

Michael, Ben, Chris and Jim played Firefly: The Game – the Harken’s Folly scenario – and Mike won.

BEWC Meeting Recap 01/17/15

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Attendees: Chris Cregan, Anthony Eaton, Michael Feinberg, Jim Halloran, Alex Jordan, Dave Olson, Jeramee Scherer and Matt Walker

Games Played

1) Jim, Matt, Jeramee and Dave started with a game of Defenders of the Realm.  The group was not successful in defending the realm.

2) Alex, Michael and Chris played the King of all Londinium story of Firefly with the Blue Sun and Pirates and Bounty Hunters Expansions. Michael won.

3) Jim, Matt, Jeramee and Dave took another run at Defenders of the Realm.  Dave had to leave before the conclusion, but Tony took over for him.  The defenders were once again unsuccessful.

4) Jim, Michael, Chris, Jeramee, Tony and Matt played 7 games of Coup. Michael won 4, Jim 1, Jeremy 1, and Matt 1

Club Business

New officers were elected for 2015…

President: Chris Cregan

Vice President: Jim Halloran

Secretary: Dave Olson

Treasurer: Michael Feinberg

The club also voted to purchase King of New York and Level 7: Omega Protocol for the collection.

BEWC Meeting Recap 11/15/14

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Attendees: Michael Feinberg, Jim Halloran, Chris Cregan, Dave Olson, Alex Jordan, Jay Olson, Ken MacArthur, Jeremee Schrear, Ed Magran, Ryan Frans, Anthony Eaton, Maria and Matt Willey

1) The meeting started with a game of Seven Wonders with Alex managing to just squeak out a victory as Alexandria with 59 points.  Jay was next at 56 with Giza, Micheal got 47 with Babylon even with missing a couple science buildings, for his first game Ken got 44 as Halikanarsis, Jim was just behind him with 43 as olympia, Dave got 37 as Rhodes and Jeremee got 32 as Ephesos.

2) While that was finishing up Ed set up Fire on the Lake.  Matt and Maria started off as the Veit Con but were later relieved by Ryan when they left.  Ed played as the Americans and Jim played as the US allied Vietnamese.  Things started off well for the Americans as they demolished the NBA but near the end the were getting surrounded by new forces and were trying to pull back from the War before they started racking up casualties.  Unfortunately the game did not end up getting finished.

3) Another long game was going on at a different table.  Ken, Jeremee and Jay all delved into a dungeon in Descent.  Despite Dave, an experienced and cruel Dungeon Master, the party managed to survive long enough against Giants and other monsters to win out in the end.

4)The third and final long game was Firefly.  The captains were tasked with a series of highly deadly jobs, each one likely to kill one or more of their crew.  It was a game of riches, as good characters and ship upgrades were easily drawn at the start of the game.  Anthony got off to a very quick start, a crew of hill folk and Jane as well as an assortment of firepower.  He was the first to grab up the first Goal token but was harassed by a Reaver on the way to the 2nd.  He lost several crew and more importantly turns allowing Micheal to pass him, grabbing the 2nd token and making his way to the final objective overcoming some Reaver road blocks.  Alex had a good game but got poor luck on the objective cards and ended up being a few turns behind Micheal.  Chris was probably playing a different game.  He spent the game in the slow freighter ship collecting cargo and finishing log haul trucking missions.  He ended up being incredibly wealthy and in dead last.  Micheal won the game with both Anthony and Alex close behind.

5) To end the day off three games of Bang the Dice Game were played by Chris Jeremee, Mike Jay Alex and Anthony.  It was a bad day for the law as the outlaws proceeded to get a hat trick.  Chris Dave and Jeremee won  the first game, Micheal Anthony and Jay the 2nd, and finally Dave Chris and Jeremee won the final.

BEWC Meeting Recap 9/6/14

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Attendees: Jim Halloran, Brandon James, Dan Carey, Alex Wright, Dave Landon, Chris Cregan, Jay Olson, Dave Olson, and Micheal Feinberg.

1)Kingdoms started off the day as Jim Brandon Dan and Alex waited for others to arrive.  Alex just edged out Jim for the victory, 181 to 178.  Brandon ended with 138 and Dan ended with 93.

2) Arkham horror was the main entree, with Brandon, Chris, both Dave’s, Mike trying to fend off Asteroth from consuming the world… atleast for a little while.  The only expansion that was added was The Curse of the Dark Pharaoh.  Good was fortunate at the start and managed to shut down three gates with little going wrong.  Though shortly after this, the few open gates on the board had a series of monster explosions and the heroes were forced to try and quell the numbers before responding to gates.  Some were wounded, more driven insane but they bounced back, and a lucky gate closer removed a nearly invincible beast before it could wreck much havok.  After this it was fairly smooth sailing.  and in the end Good managed to win by closing and sealing enough gates.

3)  Those who did not play in the Arkham horror game decided to play something more realistic, but still with the threat of extinction of all life on earth.  Jim and Dan squared off in Twilight Struggle and in both games Jim managed to out politicize Dan.

4)  Dave, Chris, Micheal, Brandon and Jay all played a game of Dragon Slayer.  Dave managed to win with 47 with a last round gamble that really paid off.  Chris, earlier in the round played it safer with only 45, Micheal, starting the final round had only 30 while Branodn and Jay ended with 24 both getting eaten in the last round.

5)Firefly was played with the expanded map.  The mission had the captains trying to economize their missions, with only three available from each contact and the game ended with three contact piles exhausted.  Chris managed to get off to an early lead, stacking up on engineering and successfully boarding Micheals ship, stealing several of the covetted Jobs.  In the end Chris won at 19700, followed by Brandon at 3600 and Micheal at 2500.

6)Domain was the final game, Chris ended with 40, Dave at 39, Brandoon at 17 and Micheal at 11.

BEWC Meeting Recap 5/3/14

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Attendees: Alex Jordan, Michael Feinberg,Chris Cregan, Scott Harris, Jim Halloran, Alex Wright, Dave Landon, and Karen Landon.

1) Alex W. and Jim fought it out in Twilight Struggle.  Alex’s America won out in the end over Jim’s red menace.

2) Alex J, Chris, Michael and Scott played Firefly.  It was a money grab mission, Chris won with 12700 with a salvage op heavy strategy, Alex J was closest with 8400 managing to finish up most of his missions to avoid the penelty.  Michael and Scott managed to stay positive with 3100 and 3000 respectively.

3) Alex W., Dave Karen and Jim played a round of Smash Up.  Alex W won in the end with his Ghost Bears edging Dave out by a point (16/15).

BEWC Meeting Recap 1/18/14

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

1) Victor Michael and Jim started with a game of Haggis.  It was mearly played through in order to learn the game.

2) Flux came with Michael Victor, Ryan, Jim and Alex.  It was a slow game but eventually Michael had a good turn, able to play both keepers and plot card for a victory.

3) The first of two games of Firefly had Victor, Michael, Alex and Chris racing around the galaxy for money.  Victor spent the game ferrying passengers back and forth and neglected crime and crew a like and so ended up easily getting to the required cash value before anyone else ending with 12,400.  Michael had the fewest active missions and a large stack of cash reserves to end with 410 after subtracting his missions value.  Both Chris and Alex finished well into the red due to some high value, uncompleted missions.

4) Ryan and Jim had the longest and closest game of Twilight Struggle in club history.  Ryan managed to triumph with just a few points after the final turn though it required snatching enough points away from Jim in the last hand.

5) It was only fitting that the next game, Guillotine, was the shortest in club history.  With both the first and second days line ups getting cut short after only a couple executions each, Michael was just edged out by Ryan in the final day.  Ryan won with 12, Michael 10, Jim and Chris had 6 and Alex had 5.

6)Planet Steam was one of the two last games played.  Chris and Ryan had played before, with Chris edging out Ryan 464 to 433.  Matt ended with 254 and Maria 207.  (Scores were calculated with all lowest common value ignored)

7) At the other table Michael Alex and Jim played their last game of Firefly.  The mission this time was Harkons folly with Alex managing to finish first.

Club Business: The club voted in alignment with nominating committee from the meeting before.  The new President is Jim Halloran, the new Vice President is Michael Feinberg, the new Treasurer is Dave Olsen and the new/old secretary is Chris Cregan.