This week 8 people turned up so it was a simple case of splitting into
two groups and choosing some games. Jeremy introduced Mike, Roger and
John to Xavier Georges’ future urban planning game Ginkgopolis
where players build a city in symbiosis with nature. It was Jeremy’s
tiles that contributed most to the new city so he won the game.
The same four players followed up their town planning with a touch of tax collecting. Vladimír Suchý’s 2007 game League of Six was won by the young ambitious aristocrat Roger who just edged out Jeremy to be given the chance to work with King Sigismund.
Tony patiently explained the rules to Vital Lacerda’s CO2
to Paul, Jon and Kevin. Players compete to make the most money whilst
joining forces to save the world from pollution. As a team the players
built enough green power plants to render many fossil fuel plants
obsolete. However, it was probably Paul’s strategy of building nuclear
plants in South America that won him the game. This is an unusual game
that went down well with most players. Personally, I struggled with some
of the concepts and having to remember to do some fiddly things on my
turn. Maybe I would enjoy it more if I played it again... and didn’t
finish a distant last!
Games played and winners were :
Ginkgopolis - Jeremy Hurault;
CO2 - Paul Bulpin;
League of Six - Roger Scull.
3
years ago this week it was all about the treasure. Geoff was digging up
chests full of it on the island of Tobago and Rob was evading snakes,
spiders, rock falls, fire and mummies to escape the temple with bags of
the stuff...
1. With 8 players again tonight we split into 2
tables of 4. On Table 1 we played the new game "Tobago", a game about
placing clues regarding the location of treasures and then rationing out
the loot once they are found. Not easy to play first time but we
eventually got the mechanisms and in a very close finish where we all
finished 1 point behind each other and Geoff prevailed.
2. The
other group played "Citadels" with the expansion pack of new characters.
Alistair was attacked and lost the highest scoring buildings so he just
concentrated on getting some small value buildings constructed so that
he ended the game when it reached 8 buildings and gained the bonus
points for doing so. This tactic meant he won with only 23 points, a low
score, but the second place player was on 19 points, so it worked out
well for him.
3. We revised the groupings and Tony showed Chris
and Roger the game of "Euphrat & Tigris", which they had not played
before. The game took the rest of the evening and was a very close
finish, with Tony winning by 1 point from Geoff.
4. On the other
table we played "Small World" as Robert had never played it. He then
proceeded to win the game by a margin of 10 points, 84, 74, 72, 71 being
the final scores.
5. As the other table were still playing we
filled in with "Incan Gold" yet again. Robert won the first game easily
for his second win of the night, so we played another quick game of it
and Robert won again for a memorable treble !!
Games played and Winners were:
Tobago Geoff Williams;
Citadels Alistair Gittin;
Small World Robert Piesse;
Incan Gold game 1 Robert Piesse;
Incan Gold game 2 Robert Piesse;
Euphrat & Tigris Tony Simons.
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