1. 10
members attended this week, so we played on 2 tables. Table 1 started with 4
players in “SHADOWS OVER CAMELOT”, a
co-operative game with lots of wonderful bits and great presentation. Different
from many of the games we play because the players have to work together
to defeat the game, but perhaps one of the players has been secretly dealt the
Traitor card and they are trying to make the team fail. The 7 quests include
such things as Finding Excalibur, locating the Holy Grail, defeating Invading
Armies, conquering Black Knight etc and players play cards and move their
pieces to enable this to happen. The game system ‘plays’ siege engines to try
and defeat Camelot so sometimes players have to play cards to counter this,
providing of course they are not the Traitor!! As a result of resolving any
conflict swords are placed on the famous Round Table, these being coloured
Black or White. If at any time there are 7 Black swords on the table the team
has lost, but for every victory they add White swords to counteract it. This
all adds up to a neat gaming experience. The team of Lucy, Kevin, Luke and Tony
were ‘seiged-out’ of Camelot, but nobody was a Traitor so there was no
clear winner. However Luke was declared
the winner because of his contribution.
2. Table 2 saw 6 players playing “SHARK”, which has been played a lot recently. Jerry and Poppy were playing it
for the first time. Paul quickly built up a strong holding in 2 of the 4 shares
in the game, which he then sold to avoid major losses if the share price
tumbled. Mike had a balanced portfolio which gave him regular income each time
any share rose in value. Roger bought heavily into Yellow shares which then to
his dismay crashed. At game end Mike thought he had finally won a game, only
for Paul to declare greater wealth and snatch victory. With 6 players the game
took longer than expected so maybe it plays better with 4 players.
3.
Table 1 played a 4-player game of “SEISMIC”, in which players place
hexagonal highway tiles to build long, complete sections of highways, scoring
points for each tile as well as bonus points for the ending
"intersection" tiles in their routes. Scores aren't tallied until the
end of the game, because at any time, earthquakes can occur, destroying tiles
along the most-built direction leading out from the central "San
Andreas" tile. Players constantly need to be claiming as many long
roadways as possible while ensuring that their highways aren't the ones that
are going to be destroyed if and when an earthquake occurs. Much laughter
seemed to be generated by the players involved and it was Luke who smiled most
at the end as
he was the winner.
4.
Table 2
reduced to 4 players and played a couple of quick games of “GIRO GALOPPO”, a family horse racing
game which uses cards to move the contestants. A race takes around 15-20 minutes, and the
first game was won by Paul, the second game by Geoff.
5.
Table 2
then played a 4-player game of “DURCH
DIE WUSTE”, the game about extending your camel trains into the desert to
try and connect to water holes, which have VP’s of 1-3, to connect to Oases,
which have VP’s of 5 each, or to enclose a series of spaces, which will be
worth 1 VP each at game end. Game turns are simple enough, consisting of
choosing 2 camels from the general supply and extending your ‘network’, but
there are certain restrictions about where you can place, Players will often
thwart your plans, leading to frustration. Paul was obviously on good form as
he enclosed 2 large areas which gave him 18 VP’s at the end, Roger had
collected lots of VP’s from Water holes, whilst Mike and Geoff were some way
behind. Paul eventually won from Roger by 4 points.
6.
Table 1
finished their evening with 2 quick games of “GIRO GALOPPO”, the winner being Kevin and Luke, so surprisingly
Lucy was winless for once !!.
Games
played and Winners were:
Shadows over
Camelot Luke Williams;
Seismic Luke
Williams;
Shark Paul
Bulpin;
Giro Galoppo -1
Geoff Williams;
Giro Galoppo -2
Paul Bulpin;
Durch die Wuste
Paul Bulpin;
Giro Galoppo -3
Kevin Ward;
Giro Galoppo -4
Luke Williams.
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