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Meeting Recap 11/5/22

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Attendees:

Chris Cregan, Michael Feinberg, Amanda James, Brandan James, Dave Landon, Karen Landon, Zoe Landon, Cormac Power, Gerald Power

Games Played:

Michael, Dave, and Karen started with Metro, with Dave winning

Chris, Michael, Brandan, Dave, and Zoe played Castles of Mad King Ludwig. Michael had the best castle at 157 points, followed by Chris at 142.

Dave, Cormac, and Gerald played Starfarers of Catan, with Dave again winning

Chris, Michael, Amanda, and Brandan played Dinosaur World. Michael’s park was the most popular with 68 points, followed by Brandan at 60.

Dave, Cormac, and Gerald played a close game of Istanbul where Dave got to 5 rubies one turn ahead of either Cormac or Gerald.

Meeting Recap 3/26/22

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Attendees

Chris Cregan, Michael Feinberg, Brandan James, David Landon, Karen Landon, Zoe Landon, Ariana Power, Gerald Power, and Alex Wright

Games Played

Chris, Michael, David, and Alex started off with a game of Nidavellir where Dave just edged out Alex 209 to 207.

David, Zoe, Ariana, and Gerald played a close game of Ticket to Ride: Europe where before the longest route bonus, Zoe had 100 points over Gerald at 97 and Dave at 96, but then she also secured the 10 points from longest route to seal the win.

Chris, Michael, and Alex taught Brandan Terraforming Mars in another close game where Michael won with 67, followed by Chris at 65, and Alex at 62.

David, Zoe, Ariana, and Gerald played Love Letter and were happy that they each won 3 rounds to their daughter’s 1 each.

Chris, Michael, Brandan, David, Zoe, and Gerald played Mysterium with Zoe controlling the ghost, unfortunately they were not able to get everyone to solve their mystery in time.

They then played a second round with Karen sitting in for David and Brandan taking over as the ghost. This time they did get everyone to solve their individual mysteries with a round to go and just barely identified the overall mystery to win.

Chris, Brandan, Karen, Zoe, and Gerald finished up with a game of Metro with Zoe winning and Brandan coming in second.

Meeting Recap 1/4/20

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Attendees

Chris Cregan, Michael Feinberg, David Landon, and Karen Landon

Games Played

Chris, Michael, Dave, and Karen started with three hands of The Mind. They got to level 6 in the first two and the third was looking even better, but then they crashed and burned in level 5.

They then tried Chris’s new copy of Inis. It was a close game and everyone ended up having two victory conditions, but despite a last minute attack, Michael was able to hold on to both of his conditions and keep the Brenn, winning the game.

They finished up with a game of Metro, where Michael won with 65 points, followed by Chris at 61.

Meeting Recap 6/2/18

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Attendees

Eray Askit, Michael Feinberg, Scott Harris, Brandan James, Robin Kish, Jenna, Dave Landon, Karen Landon, Alex Wright, and Elaine Wright

Games Played

Eray, Dave, and Alex played Alchemists, with Alex winning.

Michael, Brandan, Karen, and Elaine started off with Metro, where Michael just edged out Elaine for the victory, 61 to 59.

Michael, Scott, Robin, Jenna, Karen, and Elaine played Between Two Cities. Michael had the best second best city at 57 points, with Scott just behind at 55.

Michael, Scott, Robin, and Jenna moved on to Clank! In! Space! where Scott this time overcame Michael to win with 114 points to Michael’s 110.

Brandan, Dave, Karen, and Elaine (with some tag team help from Alex) played Ticket To Ride India, which saw Karen trouncing everyone with 112 points followed by Brandon at 104. They wanted it noted for the record that Karen’s score was 50% higher than Dave’s.

Dave, Karen, Alex, and Elaine finished up with the Castles of Mad King Ludwig.

BEWC Meeting Recap 1/3/15

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Attendees: Jim Halloran, Brandan James, Dave Landon, Karen Landon

Games Played:
1) Brandan, Dave and Karen played Metro. Dave won.

2) Three Scotland Yard investigators (Jim, Dave, and Karen) were on the hunt for Jack the Ripper (Brandan) in Letters from Whitechapel, but Jack was able to escape.

3) Brandan, Dave and Karen played Vegas Showdown – Dave’s casino emerged as the most famous in Vegas.

BEWC Meeting Recap 4/5/14

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Attendees: Ryan Frans, Dan Carey, Alex Jordan Michael Feinberg,Chris Cregan, Brandan James, Dave Olson Scott Harris, Elaine Wright, Alex Wright, Dave Landon, and Karen Landon.

Club Business: None.

1) Dan, Dave L Scott, and Brandan began with a light game of Kingdoms.  Dave won with a resounding 195 followed by Scott at 152, Dan at 125 and Brandan at 103managed to get off to a solid lead after the first turn.  Despite narrowing that gap every turn, Dave still managed to cling to 1st place by two points.  Final Scores: Dave 198, Chris 196, Dan 132 and Kevin 118.

2) Michael, Alex W and Karen played a quick game of Haggis.  Alex won with 85, Michael had 42.5 (+/- .5)  and Karen had 24.

3) Brandan then took on the role of games master in Mansions of Madness.  Dan, Scott, Karen and Dave L all investigated the house of Lynch and despite a few members going insane, managed to solve the mystery and prevent evil from victory.

4) In Rhinlander Dave L was about to complete his hat trick but was Duke blocked in the end and fell one short.  Brandan and Karen tied with 34, Dave with 33, Elaine with 22 and Dan with 16.

5) Ra allowed Dave L to get his third victory.  Final Scores were Dave 42, Brandan 38, Karen 37, Ryan 30 and Elaine at 25.

6)Metro.  Dave L and Karen tied with 49, Ryan had 39 Brandan at 34 and Elaine at 30.

7) While, the rest of the members ruled ancient Egypt, conquered the Rhineland, saved the world from Cthulianic evils and even built up modern days system of rail lines, Chris, Alex J, Alex W, Michael and Dave O, from rise to fall, ruled their Civilizations (with Fame and fortune expansion).  It was an incredibly close game in the end.  Michael had devoted himself into a culture creating machine, Alex W used the Greeks free tech ability to great effect and outshone most of the world with his scientific prowess, Dave O had built the grandest city of them all, three harbor, along with mines, and markets and rotating wonders, Chris had built a military juggernaut, with barracks in several cities and a large hand of unit cards, Alex W played it quiet sitting alone on an island.  Chris made the first grasp for victory, using steam power and a large amount of resources he teleported his 5/6 of his army to the gates of Dave’s city.  In response, Dave carpet bombed all of Chris’ Barracks and built up his own.  Dave defended as best he could, and held off three attacks but was getting weaker.  Alex W saved him with a well placed spy, locking Chris’ final armies in place.  The start of the next turn almost saw Alex J sneak in with the victory.  He had spent his entire game gathering coins, forsaking culture, tech and military.  He was a few coins shy however.  Dave offered him a tech sharing which would have brought him closer, potentially to victory, but Alex came in again to stop the trade.  Michael managed to be one space away from a cultural victory on his turn, and cursed a previous turns error which denied him that last space.  Alex himself was one tech shy of victory, with enough money to buy it in the end.  However, Chris managed to exhaust Dave’s military on his turn and took his capitol.

8) The night concluded with Bang.  Chris, Michael and Brandan were quickly defeated as the outlaws only managing to take Dave L the Deputy with them. Dave O was a well defended sheriff and watched as the obviously deputy Ryan fought it out with Karen the obvious Renegade.  In the end Karen defeated Ryan in a drawn out struggle, only to reveal that Ryan was the renegade all the time.  We fought the Law and the Law won.

BEWC Meeting Recap 2/4/12

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Attendees: John Boyle, Dan Carey, Michael Feinberg, Ryan Frans, Brandon James, Joe Kauffman, Michael Kelly, Dave Landon, Karen Landon, Dave Olson, Jay Olson, Alex Wright, and Elaine Wright

Club Business: None.

Games Played
1) John, Dan, Michael F, Joe, Michael K, and Dave L played Battlestar Galactica with the Exodus expansion – using the new characters and cards, the cylon fleet board, and the final five loyalty cards. Even though it turned out there was no cylon in play at the beginning of the game, the system really beat up on the humans, but spread the damage out so that none of the dials were in the red at the halfway point, causing Michael K’s Boomer’s to side with the cylons when he received the sympathizer card. After the cylon fleet wreaked havoc on the civilian fleet and Dave’s Baltar revealed himself as a cylon things were looking quite grim for the humans. Suspicions were also also high, as there should have been one more cylon player, but almost miraculously the humans were able to hold on for the final jump to Kobol. The human victory was dependent on a really luck break though – with the exodus expansion the loyalty deck includes one extra card to account for possible executions and against the odds, it was the last cylon card that was not dealt out.

2) Brandon and Karen played three rounds of Wings of War: Dawn of War, with Brandon winning two and Karen one.

3) Dave O, Joe, Alex, and Elaine played Small World where Alex won with a commanding 107 points due to his pillaging gypsies.

4) Michael F, Michael K, and Elaine played Agricola, allowing Elaine to break her Agricola loosing streak when she beat Michael F by 1 point.

5) Joe, Dave L, Karen, and Alex played Ra with Dave winning.

6) Dan, Brandon, Dave O, and Jay broke in the club’s new copy of Ascending Empires, with Dan being the inaugural victor.

7) Lack of table space exiled Dave O and Alex to the kitchen for a head-to-head match up in Hannibal, where reportedly Dave’s Carthaginians marched all over Alex’s Romans.

8) Michael F, Ryan, Brandon, Joe, Michael K played a second round of Battlestar Galactica with the Exodus expansion, this time also adding in the personal goal loyalty cards. This games started almost the exact opposite from the first, with the humans having the easiest time any of us had seen, with resource dials actually going up instead of down. Things started to change after Ryan fulfilled his personal goal and had to draw a new loyalty card, which was a cylon. After some subtle working against the humans, he revealed himself, sending Michael F’s Starbuck to the brig, where he ended up stuck for the rest of the game. While it was unlikely any of the resource dials were going to be depleted, Galactica was accumulating damage and things were looking unexpectedly tight for the humans. Mike K then unexpectedly used Helo’s moral compass ability to force a bad choice on a crisis card, making it clear he was a cylon just before he revealed himself. With two cylons each using the basestar bridge to do two points of damage to galactica, plus potentially moving the jump track back, it didn’t seem like there was much change left for the humans who only had two players not in the brig. Some lucky rolls however allowed Brandon’s Adama to nuke most of the cylon fleet into oblivion and a well timed draw of a repair card allowed FTL control to be repaired, letting Joe’s boomer jump the fleet to Kobol just before the next cylon turn which would have destroyed Galactica.

9) Karen and Dave finished the day off with a game of Metro.

BEWC Meeting Recap 11/5/11

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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.