Session Report March 26 2008 - Look Ma, we built a castle!

Pillars of the Earth - Collin, Beth, Dana, Pete - Winner Dana

-- fineltour won the game super. The victory was with 46 points. (59:57 min.)
Pete 39
Beth 35
Collin 33

That played Really quick! Very nice! I really think we should play this game more. I had a bit of trouble remembering everything, so I just built stuff for vps as much as I could, and upgraded workers along the way. I got stuck with endgame showing up before I expected it.

Dana played a nice 3 gold (6x) for 1vp. Then sold off his metal reserves at the market to clean up in end game vps.

Beth really had some excellent placement strategies. She always seemed to be plopping her master builders down where I wanted to go.

Collin complained on master builder draws, and something about being stupid in the end game. I didn't see it!

This was fun!

Looks like everyone's COW beta test accounts have expired to regular free accounts. You can play Catan there, but that's about it. The Beta test is shutting down, so this is not surprising.

The cow is about 8 bucks a month right now. I can't see the VBGG members subscribing. We're pretty happy with the Free games we are playing now, yes?

Pete played a brutal game of Diplomacy online the other week. Anyone up for web-based diplomacy? 1 turn a day, 0 on weekends?

Session Report - March 19 2008 - Catan Online Elasund

Greetings!

Brian, Beth, Collin and Pete played Elasund with great success on COW. We had a great time! The game definitely takes a little longer with 4 than it does with two. But, still fun!

The Bug List:

On rare occasion the dialog menu may be missing. Very odd obscure bug. Happened to us 3 times. Once when Moving the robber (The move ship icon was missing, stuck on a pointer), and once when an OK dialog was supposed to appear after placing a permit. If you type in the chat window, it should come back. That fixed it for use easy.

We don't see how you can rotate the big building.

We don't see that it lets you build same-size buildings over each other.

When a row is full, and you roll that row, it still gives you the option to build a building permit on that row.

Anyway, All looks good until someone builds over your building! Then there you are, scrambling to get back in the lead!

Final Score:

Brian: 7
Beth: 10
Collin: 8
Pete: 8

Beth played very nicely with good production across the board, and nice 1/3 of the Church. It was once again a close game as pete was ready to win on the next round (if the gold came!)



FUN!

Finished in about 2 hours, with a bit of analysis paralysis. Should be able to go a bit quicker with more plays.

Session Report - March 12 2008 - 100'th Post!

And wouldn't' you know, we played like 100 games of Transamerica!

Everybody won!

Session Report - March 5 2008 - Short and Sweet

Hi Pete,

Dana had a new strategy tonight, when you get the guild hall; you hang on to it to the end of the game.

This strategy got him 20 points in the final game, because of he had 10 production buildings.

-- Unparalleled, danar smashed the opposition's hopes with 42 points. (25:54 min.)

Gary Gygax, 'Father of D&D,' Dies at 69

Tis a sad day -

Gary Gygax pass away this morning, after suffering from poor health for some time.

http://blog.wired.com/underwire/2008/03/report-gary-gyg.html

Dungeons and Dragons was a key part of my childhood.
The Role-playing gaming world owes him a debt for gratitude - may the net sing praises of Gary Gygax!