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Meeting Recap 11/4/17

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Attendees

Chris Cregan, Michael Feinberg, Scott Harris, Brandan James, Dave Landon, Karen Landon, Abigail Lichti, Josh Lichti, Ben Samuelson, and Alex Wright

Games Played

Chris, Michael, Scott, Dave, Abigail, Josh, and Ben started with 7 Wonders with the Leaders expansion. Chris’s Babylon plus strong leaders led him to 55 points in science and the win with 74 points, while Scott’s Giza was close behind with 70 points for second.

Chris, Scott, Dave, Abigail, and Josh played Mountains of Madness where they achieved a coop victory with no injuries.

Michael, Ben, and Alex played Great Western Trail which Alex dominated for a 124 point win over Michael’s second place 96.

Chris, Scott, Dave, and Josh were victorious (though by the skin of their teeth) in XCOM: The Board Game

Chris, Michael, Scott, Brandan, Dave, Karen, Abigail, Josh, and Ben played three hands of The Resistance with the spies winning all three.

Michael and Karen moved on to Carcassonne: Hunters and Gatherers, which Michael won.

Chris, Scott, Brandan, Dave, Abigail, Josh, and Ben finished up with three more rounds of The Resistance, the last two using the Merlin rules from Avalon, but the spies still won all three.

Meeting Recap 8/5/17

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Attendees

Eray Askit, Chris Cregan, Michael Feinberg, Mark Fritschen, Scott Harris, Brandan James, Dave Landon, Karen Landon, Selwyn Lane, Josh Licthi, and Ben Samuelson

Games Played

Eray, Chris, Dave, Karen, and Scott started with Sheriff of Notingham, where Josh was the most devious smuggler with 186 points over Dave’s second place 177.

Michael, Scott, Selwyn, and Ben played Five Tribes with Ben winning at 135 points and Michael just behind at 131.

Eray, Chris, Mark, Dave, and Josh played two games of Trans Europa, the second with the Vexation expansion. Josh won the first, just ahead of Mark, while Chris dominated the second game, winning in two perfect rounds.

Chris, Michael, Mark, Selwyn and Ben moved on to a close game of Caverna. Mark was victorious at 83 points, followed by Ben at 80, and Michael at 77.

Eray, Brandan, Dave, and Josh attempted to save the world in XCOM: The Board Game, but were handily defeated by the aliens.

Eray, Brandan, Dave, and Karen played The Castles of Mad King Ludwig, where Eray’s joy in winning through a tiebreaker were dashed when it was realized that bonus points for exhausted tiles hadn’t been included, putting Karen over the top 88 to 84.

Chris, Mark, Brandan, and Dave finished up with Galaxy Trucker with Dave dominating for the win at 82 points.

Meeting Recap 4/1/17

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Attendees

Eray Askit, Dan Carey, Chris Cregan, Tyler Eller, Michael Feinberg, Scott Harris, Brandan James, Dave Landon, Dave Olson, Kerri Olson, Ben Samuelson, Alex Wright

Games Played

After an abandoned teaching game, Dan, Chris, Michael, Ben, and Alex played Food Chain Magnate. Alex won commandingly with 550 points, filled by Dan with 295.

Eray, Scott, Brandan, and Dave L played Castles of Mad King Ludwig where Brandan one with 98 points.

Eray, Scott, Brandan, and Dave L then moved onto XCOM: The Board Game with the Evolution expansion but were unable to save the world from alien invasion.

Tyler, Dave O, and Kerri played two hands of Love Letter with Dave winning both.

They then played two hands of Coup with Tyler winning one and Dave the other.

Eray, Scott, Brandan, Dave L, Dave O, and Kerri finished with Avalon. Dave L and Eray’s forces of evil dominated, winning on the third mission.

BEBGC Meeting Recap 11/05/16

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Attendees

Chris Cregan, Michael Feinberg, Scott Harris, Brandan James, Alex Jordan, Dave Landon, Karen Landon, Alex Wright, and Elaine Wright

Games Played

Michael, Dave, Alex W and Elaine played a close game of A Feast For Odin. Alex came out on top with 98 points, but Elaine was just behind with 95 and then Dave with 93.

Chris, Scott, Alex J, and Karen started off with Castles of Mad King Ludwig, which Karen dominated with 140 points followed by Chris with 126.

Chris, Brandan, Alex J, and Karen were successful in saving Earth in XCOM: The Board Game.

Michael, Dave, Alex W and Elaine played Machi Koro, with Alex winning.

Chris, Michael, Brandan, Dave, Alex W and Elaine played one round of Coup where Brandan took down Elaine to be the last one standing.

Chris, Michael, Brandan, Dave, and Alex W finished up with a game of 7 Wonders with the Leaders expansion that Brandan won with 69 points.

BEBGC Meeting Recap 08/06/2016

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Attendees

Phil Davenport, McKenna Davenport, Aaron, Michael Feinberg, Jim Halloran, Scott Harris, Brandan James, Alex Jordan, Dave Landon, Ben Samuelson, Alex Wright

Games Played

Alex J, Dave, Ben, and Alex W started off with Sheriff of Nottingham, where Alex W was the best smuggler, amassing 169 points over Dave with 153 and Alex J just behind at 151.

Michael, Jim, and Scott tried Dragonwood. Scott captured the first dragon, but Michael was able to capture the second putting him over the with 24 points to Scott’s 21.

Michael, Jim, and Scott played one hand of Red7 that Michael won.

Brandan, Ben, and Alex W played Caylus, where Ben won with 86 points and Alex in second with 79.

Phil, McKenna, Aaron, and Alex J played the Switzerland map of Ticket to Ride, with McKenna winning.

Michael, Jim, Scott, and Dave tried out Star Trek Panic. With only three missions completed and two thirds of the enterprise destroyed, they admitted defeat.

Dave, Ben, and Alex W played two rounds of Dominion, with Alex dominating the first game and Dave the second.

Brandan taught Michael, Jim, and Alex J XCOM: The Board Game, where they were badly defeated. Dave replaced Brandan as Central Officer for a second round that went much better for the people of earth.

Dave, Ben, and Alex W finished with Caverna.

BEBGC Meeting Recap 05/07/16

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Attendees

Eray Aksit, Chris Cregan, Michael Feinberg, Jim Halloran, Scott Harris, Brandan James, Dave Landon, Karen Landon, Dave Olson, Jay Olson, Ben Samuelson, Byron Varin, Nicholas Varin, Alex Wright

Games Played

Eray, Dave L., Alex, Byron and Nicholas played Ra. Eray won with 42 points, followed by Dave with 40 and Alex with 39.

Michael, Ben, Karen, Scott and Chris played The Grizzled and won!

Red Team Jim, Chris, Byron, Karen and Scott went up against Blue team Alex, Michael, Nicholas, Dave O. and Brandan in three rounds of Codenames. The red team won two of the three games. Or maybe it was the other way around.

Jay (USA), Ben (East), Eray (South), and Dave L. (West) played Fortress America. It was a hard fought battle, but in the end the USA fell and the Eastern invaders (Ben) were the ultimate victors.

Michael, Byron, Nicholas and Brandan played Ticket to Ride with the UK map. Final scores: Michael – 85, Byron – 73, Nicholas – 68, Brandan – 60.

Jim, Chris, Scott and Dave O. played Andromeda. Final scores: Jim – 56, Chris – 54, Scott – 38, Dave O. – 26.

Jim, Nicholas and Dave O. played Smash-up. Final Scores: Dave O. – 14, Jim – 12, Nicholas – 10.

Michael and Chris played 2 games of Star Realms, winning one each.

Karen, Brandan and Byron played Sheriff of Nottingham, and Karen was the winner.

Brandan, Jay, Chris and Dave O. played XCOM: The Boardgame. They were able to band together and repel the alien invasion.

Karen, Michael, Dave L. and Eray played Castles of Mad King Ludwig. Final scores: Karen – 122, Michael – 102, Dave L. – 92, Eray – 81.

Club Business

None

BEBGC Meeting Recap 03/05/16

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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.

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 2/7/15

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Attendees

Chris Cregan, Anthony Eaton, Michael Feinberg, Frank and Robbie Fulton, Jim Halloran, Scott Harris, Brandan James, Dave Landon, Karen Landon, Dave Olson, Jeramee Scherer, Alex Wright

Games Played

Love Letter played by Dave O, Dave L, Jim, Karen with Jim emerging the victor.

Castles of Mad King Ludwig, Alex 105, Dave L 125, Scott 104, Mike 129

King of New York played by Jerame, Chris, Jim, Dave O. Jim won

Twilight Struggle Roberta & Frank America saved to world from communism

XCOM: The Board Game, Brandan, Jereme, Chris, Dave O and the human team beat the aliens.

Smash up, Anthony, Karen and Jim played, Karen won.

Lords of Waterdeep. Micheal 124, Jeramee 111, Anthony 107, Jim 104

Smash up, Micheal , Jim, Anthony, Jeramee. Anthony won

Game of Thrones with Feast of Crows expansion. Scotts Baratheons won against Brandan, Chris and David L.

Five Tribes Micheal 166, Jim 179, Anthony 161

A 7 player game of 7 Wonders with the new expansion and David L won with 57 points