CHIPPENHAM BOARDGAMES CLUB – 20/09/2012

1.       7 players tonight so we split into a 3 and a 4. Table 1 saw 3 players playing “CARCASSONNE”, in one of its many variants. From the scores I was given it seems as though Jerry dished out a thrashing, as the final scores were Jerry 205; Lucy 170; Roger 48.

2.       Lucy had to go after her game and with the non-arrival of Richard and his friends Jerry and Roger played a 2-player version “CARGO NOIR”, the black market smuggling game which has been played before, Jerry was in sparkling form again winning with 125 points to Roger’s 105.Well done Jerry !!

3.       On table 2 Mike and Paul introduced Kevin and Jon to the game  of “VILLAGE”, the game in which players have a family of 11 meeples which they ‘manage’ through their lives to perform certain jobs or activities to gain Prestige points. The game was played last week so the description is not repeated here. Paul once again tried to get plenty of his family into the council chamber and the Church. Mike trained Craftsman with a view to get good harvests, whilst Kevin was the only one to go travelling early on. Jon collected lots of influence cubes, so he was able to have a second go at the Market, which enabled him to build up an impressive number of customer sales. When the mass took place both Mike and Paul failed to get their novice monk drawn from the bag, whereas Jon was lucky each time so he built up a strong holding in the Church, which scored him PP regularly each turn. Meanwhile Kevin continued on his travels and turned lots of grain to Gold, which he used to buy PP’s via his high position in the Council Chamber. There was a late rush to get family members to die to occupy the final spots in the Village chronicle. Kevin managed 5 to score 12 PP, whilst Mike managed 4 to get 7 PP. In the final scoring we discovered that Jon had accrued 24 points for his customer tiles, as significant total. Kevin scored 18 for his travel exploits whilst Mike and Paul only picked up small pockets of points.  Final scores were Jon 76; Kevin 68; Paul 48; and Mike 42, in his usual last place. Both newcomers to the game enjoyed it, although it took nearly 3 hours to complete and we couldn’t fit in another game.

Games played and Winners were:

Carcassonne – Jerry Jabelman;

Cargo Noir – Jerry Jabelman;

Village – Jon Binmore.