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BEWC Meeting Recap 6/1/2013

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Attendees: Chris Cregan, Michael Kelly, Michael Fineberg, Alex Wright, Brandon James, John Boyle, Bruce Clark, Joe Kauffman, Dave Landon

1) Chris, Michael F, Alex, Brandon, Dave and Bruce played a “short” game of Twilight Imperium.  It was most everyone’s first or second game, and turned into a big learning experience for all.  In the end it was a close race, with most everyone competing for the win the final turn mostly due to a stronger presence on Mecatol Rex for the majority of the game.  The 2nd to last turn Chris took the center planet using an army built up over the entire game.  Even then it took Dave invading Michael’s territory, taking his capitol planet to prevent a potential counterattack.  The next turn though saw Dave move in on Chris’ territorys in a bid to take two enemies home systems, which was an outright win condition.  Unfortunatly he only took half of the home planets, which was not enough for Dave.  It was enough to prevent Chris from achieving points from his Mecatol conquest.  Brandon, having played the entire game at peace with his neighbor Michael finally declared war attempting to get his secret objective complete.  Unfortunatly, a nebulus blocked his army from invading too far in and Michael was able to win with 9 VP.

2) In non-twilight related news: some people lost game, others won, maybe some ties…  I think a game of Power Grid happened.

BEWC Meeting Recap 12/01/12

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Attendees: Chris Cregan, Jim Halloran, Dave Slaby, Lane Taylor, and Alex Wright

Club Business: None.

Games Played:
1) Chris, Jim, Dave, Lane, and Alex played a quick game of Bohnanza while they waited to see if anyone else was going to show up. Dave proved to be the better bean farmer and won commandingly with 3 points over 2nd place.

2) They then brought out Twilight Imperium. The galaxy was not evenly distributed, with Dave and Chris’s side of the galaxy having the glut of planets. Jim and Lane bordered each other and quickly formed an uneasy alliance, dividing up what few planets they had. After several turns Lane had amassed a large fleet positioned near the center of the galaxy, well away from his original starting location. Jim took the opportunity break the alliance and captured Lane’s starting planets in one turn.

Alex advanced quickly colonizing planets up to and around Chris’s border, building up a fleet while at it. With the abundant starting planets though, Chris’s fleet was significantly larger with the excess money and when battle ensued his fleet was completely destroyed. Not without significant damage to Chris’s own fleet however, which Dave was more than happy to obliterate the following turn.

Dave had been slow playing it up till then, mostly making trade packs and slow advancement. Rather than press the advantage, his fleet returned to his space. Alex and Chris formed a truce with both armadas completely destroyed. Both nations rebuilt and moved towards Dave who, having not been attacked at all, was in a very solid position. Dave built up a large force but wasn’t able to join it with his main force before getting it destroyed by Chris’s new fleet. Alex however, changed direction and advanced into Chris’s unguarded nation, taking several planets effortlessly. Unfortunately for Dave, his fleet was out of position and Jim took the opportunity to strike at his home sector, finally making the long trek from the far side of the galaxy.

They were forced to leave after that, while Alex was the closest to victory, it was determined that it would take more than a turn for him to get there.