| Here
you can find recaps of our gaming sessions. It's a great way to keep track
of what games we've played and who has been victorious. As a note
to our visitors, any of our members can post session reports. Look at the
bottom of each entry to find out who wrote the report!
Previous
sessions:
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| October
5, 2001
Hosted by Matt Gardner Gamers in attendance: Matt G, John P, Dave E, Rick V Games played (winner listed first): Wyatt Earp
(Dave, John, Matt)
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| July
6th, 2001
Hosted by Matt Gardner Gamers in attendance: Matt G, Scott, Dale, Mike Games played (winner listed first): Bali (Matt,
Scott, Dale, Mike)
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| June
9th, 2001
Hosted by Dave Ehlers Gamers in attendance: Dave Ehlers, Matt Gardner, Rick Vonder Brink Games played (winners names listed first): Carolus
Magnus: Rick, Matt, Dave
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| May
18th, 2001
Hosted by Scott Tullis Gamers in attendance: Scott Tullis, Cheryl Tullis, Mike Rosal, Matt Gardner, Dale Yu, Dave Ehlers. Games played (winners names listed first): Tendix - Scott & Matt. Foamy rubber squares!! Medina - Matt, Scott, Mike, and Dave. Matt and Scott share the victory in this game of city building. Kohl, Kie$, and Knete - Dale, Matt, Cheryl, Dave, Scott, and Mike. Dale is the best dealer in this game of big cutthroat deals. Three-way tie for second place. Liars Dice - Dave, Mike, Matt, Dale, Cheryl, and Scott. Dave proves to be the best liar! Nicht Die Bohne - Dale, Mike, Matt, Scott, and Dave. Dale wins the "mean bean game". San Marco - Matt, Mike, Cheryl, and Scott. Very close game. Matt ends up with the biggest piece of pie in the game of pie splitting. - top |
| April
28th, 2001
Hosted by Dale Yu The gamers at this session were Dale Yu, Dave Stultz, Shelly Stultz, Mike Rosal, Chase Bramwell, Greg Doherty, and Matt Gardner. Games played: Elchfest, Metro, Evo, Ra, San Marco, Metro (again), Aladdin's Dragons, Politics and Dirty Tricks (Dale's prototype) - top |
| March
23rd, 2001
Hosted by Rick Vonder Brink Gamers in attendance: Rick Vonder Brink, Dale Yu, Mike Rosal, Matt Gardner Games played: Star Wars: Queen's Gambit, Ra, Onhe Furcht und Adel, (others?) - top |
| March
2nd, 2001
Hosted by Matt Gardner Gamers attending: Matt Gardner, Dale Yu, Scott Tulis, Tony Jones, Dave Ehlers, Mike Rosal, Rodney Varner, plus one person I have forgotten (Sorry!) Games played: Onhe Furcht und Adel, Bohnanza, Tikal, Frank's Zoo, Wildlife Adventure, Princes of Florence, (others?) - top |
| February
19th, 2001
hosted by Dale Yu A very very impromptu meeting. Dale and Rick got together for a quick game of Star Wars: The Queen's Gambit. Dale was the Trade Federation and gamely fought off Rick from Naboo. The game started out rather even with Rick taking the early offensive inside the Palace and getting Anakin thru the first three stages early. However, with some good card draws, Dale quickly took control of the Jedi battle (managing to defeat both QuiGon and ObiWan) as well as stonewalling Anakin with a multitude of Starfighter cards. The balance of power quickly shifted and Dale started to pick off the Palace Guards one by one leading to eventual victory. - top |
| February
9th, 2001
hosted by Scott Tullis For the records, games played were: Rosenkonig
Lord of
the Rings
Everything
was going well in this cooperative game until the final board. The players
had all cooperated well to pass most of the challenges faced in the first
three boards. They had even managed to make it thru a small snafu when
they passed out the wrong special action cards. Then, on the final board,
Mike (who usually has good luck with cards) managed to draw an unholy number
of sundial tiles in a row causing mass destruction to the poor Hobbits.
If memory serves me right, the Hobbits had to endure four events before
they took their first step on the main pathway for the board. This abrupt
ending left some (well, at least me) with a pretty hollow feeling.
Drahtseilakt
AKA Tightrope
Mike (who has a general prowess at all card games) quickly took the lead in this quicky/quircky card game and never looked back. Basically, this game is a trick taking game where positive points are awarded to the player who plays the highest ranked card and negative points given to the player with the lowest ranked card. Positive and negative points will cancel each other out so you have to balance your positive points with your negatives. After the three rounds in the game, Mike was in the lead (with a sizable margin). Medici
This simple bidding game got underway with the two newbies (Dale and Tony) pushing the bidding up way too far for the cards. At the end of the first round, Dale had managed to bid himself all the way down to 0 points (and didn't even have the 30 pt bonus in hand yet!). As the game progressed, Scott took a commanding lead after the second round as he had already managed to start collecting the bonus for being at the top of the Green pyramid. Onhe Furcht
und Adel
There was much interest in trying this game with more players as we had just played it with three players earlier in the weekend. The game did not disappoint, and the addition of the Assassin character to the game made for an even better game. While Mike and Tony appeared to be in the early lead (each had 6 or 7 buildings built out of the 8 needed), the other players ganged up on them which allowed Scott (again) to slip in and finish the city first. As has been the case in the other games I've seen, the four point bonus proved to be the difference again as Scott narrowly edged out Dale (who only had five buildings built but all of high value). Nicht Die
Bohne (The evil bean game!!!)
In this rather evil variant of the Bohn card game genre - the object of the game is to score the most points while avoiding the bad cards which can make your scores go to zero or even negative. At the end of 3 (of 4) rounds, Matt and Mike were separating themselves from the other four players with Scott firmly in 3rd place. As bottom three decided to gang up on Matt and Mike as they were in the lead, Scott slipped ahead in the final round to take the victory. Showmanager
In this game, you try to "cast" actors for roles in four big shows. The actors all have different point values which in turn make your plays more or less valuable. The catch is that you only have a limited number of cards that you can have in your hand before you have to put on a production. This can at times limit your options! You choose cards in a unique system. Four cards are placed face up on a ladder. You can have the lowest card for free or buy cards further up the ladder for 1000, 2000 or 3000 bucks. The catch here is that you have a very limited amount of money, so you can't always buy the cards you want. For 2000 bucks you could also choose to replace all four faceup cards with new ones hoping to find the right card for you. Anyways, you cast your shows and score points according to how powerful or popular your actors are. The better your shows are, the more points you score. At the end of this game, Cheryl was in a commanding lead as she had the best performance in two of the four shows and was second place in the other two. - top |
| January
20th, 2001
Hosted by Dave Ehlers Onhe Furcht
und Adel
In this remake of "Verrater" you try to build the most prestigious city. To do this, you are able to take the roles of different people during each turn. Each different role has special abilities that you can hopefully use to your advantage to build your city. At first, it seemed like the game would not be suited well for 3 (it is meant for 3-8 players), but as the game progressed, there was as much tension in this game as in any other I've played in a long time. This game basically boiled down to a battle between MattG and DaveE over who could build the 10th and final city district. DaveE won the race (barely) and, with the bonus he received for finishing first, won the game. Settlers:
Cities and Knights
In this new variant for Settlers of Catan many new rules and mechanisms are added in to the basic Settlers mix. (Too many to explain now). Suffice it to say that it makes the game much more complex (took us about 2hrs to play) and much less friendly (there are definitely more ways to screw your opponents over in this game than in regular Settlers). This was the first time playing the game for any of the players, so no one seemed to have a good initial strategy. Also, DaveE was basically pushed out of the game by a relatively long string of rolls where he didn't produce anything. At the end of the game, Dale had snuck ahead. Onhe Furcht
und Adel
As time was running short, we opted for one more game of this soon to be group favorite. DaveE again took early control and did not look back. He finished his city first again and needed the four point bonus dearly as he won by one point over Dale and two over Matt. - top |
| January
3rd, 2001
Hosted by Dale Yu Star Wars:
The Queen's Gambit
In this clever war/card game, two players take on the roles on good (Anakin, Queen Amidala, Obi Wan, Qui Gon, et al) vs. evil (Darth Maul, the masses of Droids, et al) to relive the final scenes of Star Wars Episode I. The game ends when either the good guys take control of the Throne Room in the Palace (need to have at least 3 people in the room) or when the bad guys kill enough good guys in the palace so that they can't take control of the Throne room. The board is split up into four different areas - 1) the outside battlefield where the Gungans fight the Droids, 2) the Space battle where Anakin tries to blow up the ship that controls the Droids, 3) the reactor core where Darth Maul has his deathmatch with Qui Gon and Obi Wan, and 4) the Palace Threed where Queen Amidala (and her doppleganger) attempt to regain control of the Palace. Play is controlled thru the use of two decks of cards. One deck allows play in either the outside battlefield or the space battlefield while the other allows play in either the Palace or the Reactor core. You have to choose your cards wisely because you need to balance your progress in all four battles in order to succeed overall. In this first game, Dale managed to get Anakin to the Droid control ship (rendering all the Droids useless) and effectively won the game. Star Wars:
The Queen's Gambit
As above, except this time, Brian managed to get Anakin to the Control ship just before Dale could kill the last few palace guards. Another victory for the good guys. - top |
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