CHIPPENHAM BOARDGAMES CLUB - 21/03/2013

King of Tokyo

Work commitments and cold weather meant that only 6 players made it tonight. Mike, Lucy, Tim, Jeremy, Jon and Kevin started the evening by playing Nottingham. Kevin pleased the Sheriff the most with his set collection to be promoted from Deputy to Chief Assistant at the end of the game. The same players competed as monsters to become King of Tokyo with Jon succeeding as the Kraken by combining his healing ray and poison spines to be the last monster standing. With Tim and Lucy leaving there were four people left to play the excellent El Grande with Mike finishing the game with the most control over the provinces of Spain.

Games played and winners were :

Nottingham - Kevin Shaw;
King of Tokyo - Jon Binden;
El Grande - Mike Oakes.

3 years ago this week only 6 people turned up (possibly due to work commitments and cold weather). Exploding mobster cakes were on the menu again...
1. With only 6 players tonight we stayed together as a group and played 3 games during the evening. First up was a re-run of "Don Pepe", the gangster game which was played last week. With 6 players early losses were inevitable and Geoff was soon down to just one mobster left. However he hung on until the last 3 mobs were left after some serious damage caused by cakes blowing up. Mike had a poor start but by staying in until the end he picked up some regular income, enough to enable him to pass Roger who had already been eliminated. 

2. Game Mike introduced the group to "The Boardgamegeek Game", in which players play the role of a games manufacturer who wish to sell their games in the 6 shops present on the board. They have a secondary objective to collect games from other players to form sets, which will score points at the end. The game is driven by placing tiles in shop windows and then using the roll of 3 dice to determine from which shops the players will purchase their games. Much manipulation of the dice ensues to satisfy this requirement and players can frustrate their opponents by doing this. The lead changed hands several times during the game but by collecting 3 complete sets Alistair scored heavily at the end for a comfortable win.

3. As it was Cheltenham NH Festival week we finished up with a horse racing game called "Turf Horse Racing". This is a betting game which uses a special dice to decide how the horses move. Much laughter arose from the game and it was voted a success. With a storming last 2 rounds Robert swept through to victory.

Games played and Winners were:
Don Pepe - Mike Oakes;
Boardgamegeek game - Alistair Gitting;
Turf Horse Racing - Robert Piesse.