Session Report - February 6 2008

Greetings!

Reports follow. Thanks so much for those that submitted!

Collin Magennis to pete 11:33 PM

While waiting for Bill to join up, Collin, Beth, Dana, Lisa, and Karen played a quick game of TransAmerica. While Karen won the first round, she ended up being happy that scores don't go into negative. Collin wins with 10, followed by Beth with 7, Lisa with 3, Dana with 2, and Karen, um, triggering the end of the game.

-- Gigantically, IceFire2112 won the game with 10 points. (20:44 min.)

Bill joined up, and we split into two tables of San Juan.

First game had Bill, Dana, and Collin at one table, and Karen, Lisa, and Beth at the other.

Bill and Collin both tried the guild hall strategy, while Dana started with the chapel strategy. Bill played it just a little better than Collin, and won the game. Dana's chapel strategy worked well, tying Collin for second.

-- IceFire2112 erreichte 31 SP, davon 15 SP durch Gebaeude und 16 SP durch grosse Gebaeude.
-- Lamork erreichte 36 SP, davon 22 SP durch Gebaeude und 14 SP durch grosse Gebaeude.
-- danar erreichte 31 SP, davon 19 SP durch Gebaeude und 0 SP durch grosse Gebaeude. Kapelle: 12
-- Heavenly, Lamork smashed the opposition's hopes with 36 points. (29:55 min.)

Game two we mixed up the tables, with Dana, Beth, and Collin on one table, and Bill, Karen, and Lisa at the other.

Collin went the guild hall route again, with Dana choosing that route as well. Beth went the chapel route. This game started slowly, with everyone making use of their original starter indigo plant. Collin ended up the game with 4 silver smelters, and eeked out a 1 point win over Dana and Beth.

-- magennis erreichte 40 SP, davon 23 SP durch Gebaeude und 8 SP durch grosse Gebaeude. Kapelle: 9
-- IceFire2112 erreichte 41 SP, davon 29 SP durch Gebaeude und 12 SP durch grosse Gebaeude.
-- danar erreichte 40 SP, davon 18 SP durch Gebaeude und 22 SP durch grosse Gebaeude.
-- The victory of IceFire2112 was planned in an exemplary fashion and ended with 41 points. (37:03 min.)

Good games all!
Collin



Karen Fitz La Barge to Pete 11:45 PM



While Transamerica wasn't Karen's game tonight, San Juan proved to be.

Utilizing the market hall, a plethora of silver smelters produced so many cards in the first game that she threw away over 15 cards --all due to the fact that a tower was no where in her cards. However Karen still managed to corner the victory by a slim margin of 34 points.

In the second game, the combination of four silver smelters with a guild hall and a palace produced 41 points and busted the competition (including Bill who had won his first game in the evenings tourney set up. )

The biggest hero of the night however proved to be Collin. He sent over Pete's Brettspielwelt client file so that Karen could reload it and get rid of her mini-screen problem. (See photo.) Thanks Collin! You are a true gamer and a gentleman as well!


--
Karen Fitz La Barge

Session Report - January 30 2008 - Snow train

Hello!

Transamerica

Collin 0
Karen 0
Beth 7
Pete 4
Brian 9

-- Wow, brian7 just put it away with 9 points. Greatly. (20:09 min.)

Carcassone - lots of expansions

We are playing laaaaate... game finishes at midnight.

-- IceFire2112 scored 50 points during the game, and in the final scoring 0 points for roads, 4 points for cities, 14 points for cloisters, 18 points with farmers, as well as 20 points for goods.
-- brian7 scored 93 points during the game, and in the final scoring 2 points for roads, 0 points for cities, 8 points for cloisters, 39 points with farmers, as well as 10 points for goods.
-- kayakpete scored 148 points during the game, and in the final scoring 0 points for roads, 9 points for cities, 0 points for cloisters, 0 points with farmers, as well as 0 points for goods.
-- magennis scored 76 points during the game, and in the final scoring 0 points for roads, 7 points for cities, 0 points for cloisters, 12 points with farmers, as well as 20 points for goods.
-- Amazon4God scored 103 points during the game, and in the final scoring 0 points for roads, 3 points for cities, 0 points for cloisters, 44 points with farmers, as well as 10 points for goods.
-- kayakpete as King of the game scores 23 points for all completed cities.
-- IceFire2112 as Robber Knight of the game scores 28 points for all completd roads.
-- But will kayakpete win the next game so famously with 180 points? (134:23 min.)

I am reminded why we don't play this game so much.

Session Report January 23 2008 - Two Trains

Snowing like crazy outside! Snow day?


Table 1 Game 1-
Ticket To Ride
Bill, Dana, Pete, Lisa

Lisa has like a Million games under her belt, so we expect her to win...

... But pete's feeling good tonight

Pete and Dana tie for longest track, but Pete nailed 6 tickets.

Pete - 144
Dana - 124
Bill - 96
Lisa - 111

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Table 2 Game 1 -
Ticket To Ride
Collin, Brian, Beth

Collin has 68 points of tickets, but Brian gets longest path, and wins!

Collin - 125
Brian - 138
Beth - 117

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Table 1 Game 2 -
Ticket To Ride
Bill, Dana, Pete, Lisa

Pete and Dana tied for longest again! Wow, that's a close game. Pete only had two cards.

Pete - 115
Dana - 113
Bill - 75
Lisa - 112

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Table 2 Game 2 -
Ticket To Ride
Collin, Brian, Beth

Collin - 76
Brian - 140
Beth - 91

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Table 1 Game 3 -
Ticket To Ride
Bill, Dana, Pete, Lisa

Pete - 138
Dana - 141
Bill - 133
Lisa - 129


Cheers!

Session Report - January 16 2008 - Good turnout

A great turn out! 9 players today!


Game 1 - Transamerica - Lisa, Brian, Karen, Pete - Winner Brian

-- brian7 achieved his goal.
-- Overwhelmingly, brian7 obliterated the opposition with 12 points. (20:32 min.)

Game 2 (table 1) Fist of Dragonstones - Dana, lisa, beth, paul, and Collin - Winner Paul

in fist of stones, Paul 3, collin 2, dana 1 and lisa 1

Paul won!



Game 2 (table 2) Caylus - Pete, Karen, Bill Brian - Winner Brian

Well, the game from the get-go was Brians. He seemed to lead the whole way! Karen and Pete were having an off night.... If you muck up in Caylus, well, there's no forgivness. Bill made a respectible play in the end, but the tower section was filling quickly on the castle.... not good!

Pete - 33
Bill - 43
Karen - 46
-- 72 points let brian7 grab the whole thing incredibly! (84:22 min.)

Click on the board for a larger image!

Game 3 (Table 1) Ticket 2 Ride - Dana, lisa, beth, Dawn, and Collin - Winner Lisa

Lisa 130, Collin 117 (both tied for longest route), beth 90, dana 78, and Dawn (Paul's wife) 75

Pete's Collection

I maintain my game collection online.

Pete's Game Collection

See a game you want to play? I'll be sure to bring it to our next face-to-face gaming session.

Cheers!

Conquer Club

Risk all your armies on a daring continent grab. Use diplomacy to coordinate a group assault on the game leader. Feel the thrill of victory as you eliminate your last opponent.

Welcome to Conquer Club, an online multiplayer variation of a popular world domination board game.

Designed for the casual gamer, playing Conquer Club is not a time consuming process. You can take your turn in 5 minutes with your morning cup of coffee or in between classes. A game typically lasts several days, but hardcore risk takers can play multiple games at once and stay up all night strategizing their next move.

In order to password-protect a game, you need to pay. Boo!

Session Report - January 9 2008 - Returing to Ticket to Ride

It's been a long time since we've played Ticket To Ride online. It was quite refreshing to get back to it! Dana opened his new shrink-wrapped copy of T2R just to get the online gaming code.

Brian showed his normal gaming prowess by whooping us yet again at a never before played (by him) online game.

Collin played well on table 2, taking two games as well. Next time Brian and Collin should be on the same table, yeah!

Session Report January 9 -

Ticket To Ride - Brian, Karen, Bill, Dana, Pete

Brian built long, and built fast

Dana 86
Karen 72
Pete 50
Brian 121
Bill 125

Brian and bill tied for longest train.


Ticket To Ride - Pete, Dana, Brian, Bill

We all pretty much finished together, but Brian comes out ahead.

Pete 121
Dana 86
Brian 138
Bill 125

Ticket To Ride - Karen, Beth, Collin

Collin stayed out west, letting Karen and Beth duke it out in the congested
railways out east. While Collin was a bit lonely out there, his strategy
paid off He took longest track, and completed all his tickets.

Karen 82
Beth 107
Collin 137


Ticket To Ride - Karen, Dana, Collin, Bill

Last game of the night - Bill, Karen, Dana, and Collin played. Just as in
game 2, Collin worked out west, picking up some long runs, and completed the
most number of tickets. Bill ran away with the longest run, and would have
won the game, except for forgetting to complete a two car length track that
resulted in a 20 point swing in his final score. In the end, Collin wins!

Collin 130
Bill 112
Karen 102
Dana 99

Session Report: January 2 2008 - Name-That-Game

Greetings to a new year!

Pete's off playing with his ukulele, so we have reports from Karen and Collin:

At karen's table, they played a mystery game. I'm taking guesses in the comments below. I bet someone who played it actually gets it right. Here's your clue:

-- Lamork erreichte 28 SP, davon 20 SP durch Gebaeude und 8 SP durch grosse Gebaeude.
-- Amazon4God erreichte 32 SP, davon 21 SP durch Gebaeude und 6 SP durch grosse Gebaeude. Kapelle: 5
-- brynna erreichte 28 SP, davon 23 SP durch Gebaeude und 5 SP durch grosse Gebaeude.
-- magennis erreichte 26 SP, davon 17 SP durch Gebaeude und 7 SP durch grosse Gebaeude. Kapelle: 2
-- But will Amazon4God win the next game so unparalleled with 32 points? (33:52 min.)

At Table 2, we have Collin reporting in:

And beer for the horses!"

Table two had Brian, Dana and Collin playing Thurn and Taxis. Dana and Collin had the upper hand with having played the game once before, but Brian quickly caught on. Both Dana and Collin tried to trigger endgame by placing all their milestones, instead of scoring the 7 length carraige first. Collin almost did it, but erred in his turn, allowing Dana to grab the bonus for triggering endgame. In the end, Dana wins with 29, followed by Collin with 26, and Brian with 23.

-- Now Fineltour has won pointedly with 29 points! (84:51 min.)

Long game, but with practice, I think this game could get down to about an
hour in length.

Collin

Session Report: December 26 2007 - What's Santa's favorite game?

TransAmerica (Bill, Karen, Dana) - Winner Karen

Report from Bill.


-- danar connected all her cities.
-- Without Lamork's 10 points, the game may never have ended so phenomenally. (13:18 min.)
- The opponents of Amazon4God had to concede, with 6 points the victory was simply overwhelmingly. (13:21 min.)
- The victory of Amazon4God was planned masterfully and ended with 9 points. (13:19 min.)
-- Amazon4God won the game in an exemplary fashion. The victory was with 6 points. (15:25 min.)

Session Report - December 19 - "Do you know the way to San... Juan?"

We have a fine pre-Christmas turn-out with 8 players showing up for another Virtual Board Game Group gamenight.

A quick split to two tables, and we're off!

Table 1 - Pete, Beth, Karen, Bill -

Karen suggests what is starting to become a favorite, San Juan:

Pete goes for the city hall strategy, but adds in a couple of handy buildings to get there, and a fully triumphant arch. Bill has massive production, but can't quite beat Pete -

-- kayakpete erreichte 42 SP, davon 24 SP durch Gebaeude und 18 SP durch grosse Gebaeude.
-- Lamork erreichte 39 SP, davon 27 SP durch Gebaeude und 12 SP durch grosse Gebaeude.
-- Amazon4God erreichte 28 SP, davon 17 SP durch Gebaeude und 11 SP durch grosse Gebaeude.
-- magennis erreichte 36 SP, davon 20 SP durch Gebaeude und 15 SP durch grosse Gebaeude. Kapelle: 1
-- If kayakpete hadn't gotten 42 points, then the game wouldn't have ended so in an exemplary fashion victoriously. (41:30 min.)


Pete bows out for the night, and the table caries on with a second round. And yet again the winner only wins by 3 points. Are close finishes a mark of a good/fun game? Maybe so.

Here are the second game results for San Juan.

-- Lamork erreichte 35 SP, davon 21 SP durch Gebaeude und 14 SP durch
grosse Gebaeude.
-- Amazon4God erreichte 27 SP, davon 27 SP durch Gebaeude und 0 SP
durch grosse Gebaeude.
-- magennis erreichte 38 SP, davon 16 SP durch Gebaeude und 18 SP
durch grosse Gebaeude. Kapelle: 4
-- Now magennis has won distinguishedly with 38 points! (39:08 min.)

Table 2 - Collin, Brian, Dana, Lisa, as reported by Collin:

Group 2 consisted of Dana, Lisa, Brian, and Collin

Game 1: Ra!

"Here comes the sun...."

This turned out to be a challenging game, with Lisa and Brian playing for
the first time, and Dana trying to recall his strategy. Lisa was strong out
of the gate and crushed everyone in the first epoch. Dana suffered with
bidding coins that did't allow him to win many auctions, in fact, he didn't
win any auctions in the last epoch. Brian was strong in the second round
with his Nile tiles scoring points for him. Collin used the monument
strategy, and, it was just enough to score a 2 point victory over Brian.

-- brian7 scores 8 points in the ancient age (2665 - 2155 B.C.).
-- IceFire2112 scores 0 points in the ancient age (2665 - 2155 B.C.).
-- danar scores 10 points in the ancient age (2665 - 2155 B.C.).
-- brynna scores 14 points in the ancient age (2665 - 2155 B.C.).

-- brian7 scores 11 points in the middle age (2130 - 1650 B.C.).
-- IceFire2112 scores 7 points in the middle age (2130 - 1650 B.C.).
-- danar scores 4 points in the middle age (2130 - 1650 B.C.).
-- brynna scores 4 points in the middle age (2130 - 1650 B.C.).

-- brian7 scores in the modern age (1555 - 1080 B.C.) 16 (Total: 45) points.
-- IceFire2112 scores in the modern age (1555 - 1080 B.C.) 30 (Total: 47)
points.
-- danar scores in the modern age (1555 - 1080 B.C.) -8 (Total: 16) points.
-- brynna scores in the modern age (1555 - 1080 B.C.) 4 (Total: 32) points.
-- The victory of IceFire2112 was planned extraordinarily and ended with 47
points. (50:04 min.)

Game 2

"Do you know the way to San... Juan?"

Brian decided to head off to "Z"land, so Dana, Lisa, and Collin played San
Juan. Another new learning experience for Lisa. With both Collin and Dana
trying to coach her on some of the finer points of the game, it was hard to
tell if they were more a help than a hindrance. Dana tried the chapel
strategy early on, and used the Guild Hall for extra points for production
buildings. Collin got the Guild hall early along with 2 silver smelters,
and was able to get the cards rolling often to build frequently. In the end
Collin's ability to build many times forced the game to end with both Dana
and Lisa with 3 blank spots in their field. It was enough to hold off Dana,
who scored 12 points off his chapel.

-- IceFire2112 erreichte 41 SP, davon 23 SP durch Gebaeude und 18 SP durch
grosse Gebaeude.
-- brynna erreichte 30 SP, davon 23 SP durch Gebaeude und 7 SP durch grosse
Gebaeude.
-- danar erreichte 39 SP, davon 17 SP durch Gebaeude und 10 SP durch grosse
Gebaeude. Kapelle: 12
-- The game went without equal, and produced IceFire2112 as the winner with
41 points. (50:35 min.)

Good games everyone, and Merry Christmas!

Session Report - December 12 - We got the Power!

Game Log Dec 12

Pete seemed to be really running away with the game, building low cost purples quickly then the purple multiplier. But, as you can see, this was not a strategy that worked:

San Juan, bill, karen pete

-- kayakpete erreichte 24 SP, davon 14 SP durch Gebaeude und 10 SP durch grosse Gebaeude.
-- Lamork erreichte 26 SP, davon 14 SP durch Gebaeude und 12 SP durch grosse Gebaeude.
-- Amazon4God erreichte 25 SP, davon 19 SP durch Gebaeude und 6 SP durch grosse Gebaeude.
-- The victory of Lamork was planned in an exemplary fashion and ended with 26 points. (29:38 min.)


Some of the subtle strategy and tactics is of Power Grid are starting to be uncovered. As seems is always the case, careful calculation in the final rounds will lead to victory.

Close game!

Powergrid
Karen, bill, dana, Brian, pete

-- Wow, Danar just put it away with 17 points. Outstandingly. (134:36 min.)
Danar: 17 Städte,
Städte, kayakpete: 16
Amazon4God: 14
Städte, ebri7: 14 Städte,
Städte, Lamork: 13

Session Report - December 5 - TrainsAmerica

Game Log - Dec 5

Busy time of the year! Didn't stop us from having some games on a Wednesday night:

San Juan:

-- kayakpete erreichte 31 SP, davon 21 SP durch Gebaeude und 10 SP durch grosse Gebaeude.
-- Amazon4God erreichte 27 SP, davon 20 SP durch Gebaeude und 7 SP durch grosse Gebaeude.
-- Lamork erreichte 26 SP, davon 21 SP durch Gebaeude und 5 SP durch grosse Gebaeude.
-- Wow, kayakpete just put it away with 31 points. Gigantically. (33:54 min.)

Trainsamerica

LadyCassandra verdichtet sich aus einer Wolke glitzernder Partikel.
-- Lamork achieved his goal.
-- kayakpete achieved his goal.
-- Amazon4God connected all her cities.
-- Amazon4God connected all her cities.
-- Masterfully, Amazon4God smashed the opposition's hopes with 7 points. (18:34 min.)

Transamerica

Wow! one round!

-- kayakpete achieved his goal.
-- Isn't it great how kayakpete won the game so without equal with 13 points? (5:24 min.)

transamerica

-- Amazon4God connected all her cities.
-- Lamork achieved his goal.
-- kayakpete achieved his goal.
-- Amazon4God connected all her cities.
-- Notably, Amazon4God won the game with 10 points. (19:42 min.)

Transamerica

-- Lamork achieved his goal.
-- danar connected all her cities.
-- danar connected all her cities.
-- danar connected all her cities.
-- danar won the game unparalleled. The victory was with 10 points. (20:47 min.)

Transamerica

-- brynna connected all her cities.
-- danar connected all her cities.
-- Amazon4God connected all her cities.
-- brynna connected all her cities.
-- Wow, Lamork just put it away with 6 points. Impressively. (17:27 min.)

Session Report: November 14 2007 - Thurn and Taxis First Go

San Juan: Paul, Dana, Bill, and Karen (Winner Bill)
Thurn and Taxis: Bill, Karen, Dana, Collin (Winner Bill)

San Juan: Paul, Dana, Bill, and Karen

Collin came in late and watched the game. Dana, Bill and Karen all completed their build tiles on the last turn. Bill played the monument strategy pretty well, and won the game.

-- Lamork erreichte 41 SP, davon 25 SP durch Gebaeude und 16 SP durch grosse Gebaeude.
-- fineltour erreichte 24 SP, davon 24 SP durch Gebaeude und 0 SP durch grosse Gebaeude.
-- Amazon4God erreichte 33 SP, davon 23 SP durch Gebaeude und 10 SP durch grosse Gebaeude.
-- G.t.Lion erreichte 28 SP, davon 16 SP durch Gebaeude und 12 SP durch grosse Gebaeude.
-- Lamork won the game impressively. The victory was with 41 points. (43:38 min.)

Thurn and Taxis: Bill, Karen, Dana, Collin

First time on this one, and the learning curve was steep at the start, but a few turns into it, we were doing fine. Paul had to duck out early, so Bill Karen, Dana, and Collin played. Bill got the hang of getting bonuses early, and raked in the points. Watch out, unused milestones at the end of the game penalize you! Bill wins for the seoncd time tonight!

-- The opponents of Lamork had to concede, with 24 points the victory was simply impressively. (94:10 min.)

Session Report: November 7 2007 - Where's the what?

TransAmerica - Dana, Bill, Karen, Paul - Winner Dana
Fearsome Floors - Dana, Bill, Karen, Paul, Beth, Collin - Winner Dana

Where's the beef?

With Collin, Beth and Pete nowhere to be found, Dana (despite his microphone
problems), Bill, Karen and Paul played a quick game of TransAmerica, hoping
the no-shows would just be late.

Paul had two bad rounds putting him close to death, but he won the third
round. Bill had bad last round, dropping him to third. Dana played it safer
than Karen, winning the game.

Beth and Collin show up, and a spirited game of Fearsome Floors ensues. We
all took a moment to refamiliarize ourselves with the game, and then some
serious munching occurs. With 18 characters on the board, there the monster
was never in short supply of players to eat. In the end with players
clowding around the door, the monstar gets close and goes on a rampage,
eating several people. Dana is fortunate, and pulls out the win.

-- If fineltour hadn't gotten 2 points, then the game wouldn't have ended so
distinguishedly victoriously. (77:04 min.)

See you next week!

Session Report - October 31 2007 - Of Course We Play Fearsom Floors!

Report From Collin -

Fearsom Floors - Beth, Paul, Collin - Winner Paul
Transamerica - Beth, Paul, Collin - Winner Collin

Happy Halloween!

3 brave players showed up for some ghoulishly delightful games in a Halloween edition of VBGG!

What to play while all the ghosts, goblins, and witches are about? Why Fearsome Floors, of course! What better way to spend our time than to dash about trying to avoid being eaten by the monster lurching around the dungeon. Beth, Paul, and Collin were our intrepid (foolish?) explorers, hoping to make it out alive! The monster found plenty to eat, unfortunately, most of the time it was Beth's characters who got chomped. Collin had a brilliant play where a couple of his opponents' characters were devoured, and had one of his characters escape the blood bath first. However, that was nothing compared to Paul, who was able to whisk his next three characters to safety very quickly. Nice job, Paul!

-- Fabulously, G.t.Lion, scores 3 points, leaving the opponents no chance. (71:09 min.)

Bill stopped in for a short chat in the middle of the carnage, explaining that the power had finally been restored at their house. Hard to do the VBGG without a steady supply of electrons running to your house. We're glad everything turned out OK!

With their nerves shot, and time running short, Beth, Paul, and Collin moved on to something a little more, um, "normal" - not to mention shorter. Wait! What's that sound? Some high pitched whistle! It's getting closer! It's.... it's.... Arrrrrgh! Oh, it's just a train whistle! Transamerica has rolled into town!

The first few rounds were pretty tight, with everyone within one or two points of each other. Suddenly, Beth had a bad round, and was on the verge of elimination. That round featured a brillant piece of misdirection strategy by Paul, and it worked very well for him. However, the next round was not in his favor, and he was close to elimination himself. Beth won that round, and held off the executioner for a short bit. However, in the end, it was all for naught. Collin played a solid, steady strategy, either winning the round or only being one or two track lengths from finishing, and ended up winning the game.

-- Now IceFire2112 has won unparalleled with 6 points! (44:31 min.)

Good games everyone! We hope to see more of you next week!

Session Report - October 24 2007 - German San Juans?

San Juan - Bill, Beth, Karen Dana - Winner Karen

While Pete was in Seattle (But not on the San Juan islands), the crew played Puerto Rico (But not in German).

But, here's the report, in German, anyway. :-)

On 10/25/07, Karen wrote:

Guten Morgen Pete!

Unser spiel var Puerto Rico. Es var fiele spass!

Meine Mann, Bill hat auch Risk gespielt im das geselbe ziet von wier haben Puerto Rico gespielt. Das is varum Bill hat nich gut getan.

Bis spater!

Karen

On 10/25/07, Pete wrote:

meine deutsch ist nicht so gut.

was spiel ist es.

tag von seattle

On 10/24/07, Karen Fitz La Barge wrote:
> -- fineltour erreichte 36 SP, davon 17 SP durch Gebaeude und 19 SP durch
> grosse Gebaeude.
> -- Lamork erreichte 35 SP, davon 22 SP durch Gebaeude und 13 SP durch grosse
> Gebaeude.
> -- Amazon4God erreichte 40 SP, davon 25 SP durch Gebaeude und 15 SP durch
> grosse Gebaeude.
> -- magennis erreichte 30 SP, davon 24 SP durch Gebaeude und 6 SP durch
> grosse Gebaeude.
> -- Super, Amazon4God, scores 40 points, leaving the opponents no chance.
> (56:20 min.)
>
> Sometimes being sick and not thinking too much about your strategy works.
> Build, build, build strategy takes the game again.
>
> K
>
>
> --

>

Session Report - October 17 2007 - Watching The Detectives

Hoity Toity - Beth, Collin, Pete, Paul, Dana - Winner Collin

Paul, Pete, Bill and Karen started a nice peaceful game of San Juan, only to have BSW totally crash. Bummer! We gave up as Beth, Collin and Dana showed up.

The web-based game team (Pete, Dana, Karen and Bill) have been playing Hoity Toity this week. We thought it would play much better real time, so we tried it out.

http://www.spielbyweb.com/game.php?games_id=34137

Karen, Bill, Pete and Dana played at Table 1 (Not really a VBGG Wednesday night game, so I won't mention that Karen kicked our butts on that one), and Beth, Collin, Pete, Paul, and Dana sat at table 2. Yes, you read that right. Pete and Dana played two games of Hoity Toity at once. It was not pretty, as in the end game Pete played a Detective, when he should have exibited, costing him the game.

Well, maybe he threw it, just to give someone else a chance to win. Yeah, let's stick with that.

SpielByWeb is a valid engine for Wednesday night VBGG sessions. We hope to play more of the games there.

Session Report - October 10 2007 - Caylus? Where's that?

Slow start today, with BSW acting weird. Well, at least we'll blame them.


Table 1 Caylus - Karen, Bill, Paul, Pete - Winner Karen
Table 2 Caylus - Collin, Beth, Dana - Winner Dana


Table 1:

Karen moved in on the standard two factory strategy. Bill held off the other one, but it was enough to keep her flowing. A couple rounds of good money, and she cinched it.

Pete booked good points on a couple building builds, and the castle, moving him from last to second.

Paul says he needed just one more turn.

Karen 65
Pete 58
Paul 51
Bill 46


-- Without Amazon4God's 65 points, the game may never have ended so without equal. (114:47 min.)


Table 2:

Close game! Dana picked up 30 points in the end scoring. Very handy. Collin's happy with his game, doing pretty well on earlier castle builds, and building buildings. He made it into the blue buildings.

Oddly, they didn't use the inn at all, and only used turn order change once!

Dana - 96
Collin - 95
Beth - 57

-- Classy, fineltour smashed the opposition's hopes with 96 points. (114:26 min.)


Note that the two games finished within 21 seconds elapsed time.

First SpielByWeb game Complete!

Greetings friendly Gamers!

The first VBGG sponsored pay-by-web game has been completed! Karen, Bill, Dana and Pete played a game of Tikal, and took 9 days to do it!

http://www.spielbyweb.com/game.php?games_id=32924

Dana scored very nicely in the last round to push Pete out of the lead:

Karen: 88
Bill: 77
Pete: 96
Dana: 107

We had a good time figuring out the game on our own for the first few days. The next game should be a little more interesting, as we all know how to play.

Tikal is a very nice game, with many decisions to make and strategies to follow. We think that the play-by-web system may work for a Wednesday night VBGG session. If anyone's interested in Learning and Playing Tikal, just let us know!

Go check out SpielByWeb. Playing games "offline" is sort of like communicating via Email instead of IM. It definitely has some benefits!

And now we have one more opportunity to play.

Anyone else interested in another SpielByWeb game? Tikal? Something Else?

Session Report: October 3, 2007 - Life of Brian

Transamerica (Brian, Dana, Karen) - Winner Brian
San Juan (Brian, Dana, Karen) - Winner Brian

Thanks to Karen for this session report!




The night belongs to Brian!

In a slow night where only three of the faithful decided to brave the fiber optic cables to join for VBGG, there was only to be one victor.

Brian put Dana and Karen away at Transamerica where he won overwhelmingly with 7 points.

Then Dana and Karen taught Brian San Juan. Brian caught on to the game strategy very quickly and built a quarry and a library in order to halve his building costs. Dana utilized the ever popular Chapel method, and tucked away a lot of the town's monuments in the chapel catacombs. The few monuments that slipped past Dana's catacomb collection tended to head over to Brian's corner, and he pulled off a triumphal arch trifecta with three monuments for an 8 point addition to his 40 point winning score. Karen's 37 points were made up of a couple of wandering monuments, a guild hall and palace that will come in handy as she heads inside to lick her wounds over this severe defeat!