2012 Round-Up

Here's what we played in 2012, sorted by number of plays. Game on!

Kingdom Builder (8)	7 Wonders (7)	No Thanks! (7)	Discworld: Ankh-Morpork (6)	San Juan (6)	Skull & Roses (5)
King of Tokyo (4)	Hansa Teutonica (3)	Ra (3)	Risk Legacy (3)	Acquire (2)	Ascending Empires (2)
Cards Against Humanity (2)	Castle Panic (2)	China (2)	Cosmic Encounter (2)	Dune (2)	Escape: The Curse of the Temple (2)
For Sale (2)	Glory to Rome (2)	El Grande (2)	Kakerlakenpoker (2)	Lords of Waterdeep (2)	Mr. Jack Pocket (2)
Neue Heimat (2)	Parade (2)	Pit (2)	Power Grid (2)	Quarriors! (2)	Saint Petersburg (2)
Stone Age (2)	The Adventurers: The Temple of Chac (1)	Alhambra (1)	Attika (1)	Belfort (1)	Betrayal at House on the Hill (1)
The Bucket King (1)	Can't Stop (1)	Carcassonne: Hunters and Gatherers (1)	Chicken Caesar (1)	Dice Town (1)	Dominion (1)
Dos Rios (1)	DungeonQuest (third edition) (1)	Forbidden Island (1)	Fortune and Glory: The Cliffhanger Game (1)	Galaxy Trucker (1)	GOSU (1)
Guillotine (1)	Hanabi (1)	Incan Gold (1)	Infiltration (1)	Ingenious (1)	Java (1)
Last Will (1)	Lords of Vegas (1)	Lost Cities (1)	Mord im Arosa (1)	Mr. Jack (1)	Pack & Stack (1)
Power Grid: Factory Manager (1)	The Princes of Florence (1)	Race for the Galaxy (1)	Roll Through the Ages: The Bronze Age (1)	Scrabble Slam! (1)	Seasons (1)
Sentinels of the Multiverse (1)	The Settlers of Catan (1)	Sheepland (1)	Star Wars: X-Wing Miniatures Game (1)	Steel Driver (1)	Taluva (1)
Tsuro (1)	Vegas Showdown (1)	Village (1)	Wiz-War (eighth edition) (1)

January 8 Game Night

Ring in the new year with gaming goodness at Valencia House.

Game on!

December 18 Gamenight (Yule Edition)

As predicted, there were cookies. Dangerous pecan-concealing cookies as it turned out.

Nonetheless, fun was had.

We were Alice, Anthony, Brian, Erica, Frank, Jeff, Paul, Shelly and Steve.

We played Escape from the something-something (x2), China (x2), Settlers, and Incan Gold. Maybe Mr. Jack Pocket also, but I'm not sure.

December 4 Game Night (Third Anniversary)

Another year has come and gone. What did we do to mark it? Played games!

Who's who: Anthony, Brian, Dagon, Erica, Jeff, Paul, Romeo, Shelly, and Steve.

What's what: Carc: Hunters & Gatherers, Roll Through the Ages, San Juan, Sheepland, and Steel Driver.

Game on!

November 20 Game Night

Just a couple of longish games played (at least by the time I left): Seasons & Chicken Caesar.

I suspect things were a bit slow because we spent a lot of time getting to know Doug (nee Bamboo).

We were: Anthony, Brian, Dagon, Erica, Jason Jeff (x2), Paul, and Shelly.

Happy Thanksgiving!

Nov. 6 (Election Night) Game Night

We had a combination game night and election watching party.

And I'm happy to report that the good guys won! (The X-Wing squadron wiped out three TIE fighters, while the fourth fled the field just short of destruction.  Lord Vader was heard to grumble about the luck of the dice.)

I won't comment on the real world contests that got resolved last night, since Davis Board Gamers is not of one mind on politics and it would be impolite to use this forum to offer a soley personal perspective.
 (Woot!) 

We had a smallish group (Anthony, Brian, Dagon, Erica, Jeff, Paul, and Shelly). We played Star Wars: X-Wing, Glory to Rome, and finished with Parade.

Game on.

October 23 Game Night

I'm told this was a small turn out -- Anthony, Dagon, Erica, Jeff, Paul, and Steve. They played Cosmic Encounter (x2), Kingdom Builder (x2), and Mr. Jack.

Sounds fun!

October 9 Game Night

Small turnout for this one: it was just Anthony, Brian, Dagon, Erica, Paul,  Shelly, and Steve.  We opened with two tables of hex-based 3d jungle building: Java and Taluva. Paul set a new record for longest turn ever, taking maybe 20 minutes on his final scoring in Java. Dagon and I chilled in the other room and played with the dog, so no worries.

Meanwhile, the others played Taluva and then Alhambra.

We closed with a six player game of Parade. (Hint, it's better with fewer players -- quicker, with more control.)

Fun was had.

(I'm still determined to play Liberte soon. Maybe I'll try to set up an extra session for it.)

Special Session: Dune (9/29/12)

Another six-player session of Dune. We only had five hours to explain the rules and play, so we cut it short after the sixth turn.

Players were Dagon (Atreides), Shelly (Bene Gesserit), Brian (Emperor), Cade (Fremen), Romeo (Guild), and Brain (Harkonnen).

The first alliance opportunity appeared early (turn 2?). Atreides, Emperor, and Harkonnen all had solid garrisons on one stronghold each, and the other two were lightly held, so I suggested a three way alliance and a quick push to victory.

Fearing the power of our combined prescience, money, and treachery, the three lesser powers allied to oppose us. We *almost* managed a turn three win, but Ro used the voice on my leader in the final combat and I came up one troop short of victory, leaving us with just four of the necessary five strongholds.

We'd pretty thoroughly depleted our troop strength going for the quick win, so the lesser factions were able to temporarily push us out of two of the strongholds. The remainder of the game was a more methodical crawl back toward control of the necessary five strongholds.

We called the game after five hours, with our alliance controlling four strongholds. Another couple of hours would surely have brought the win.

Here's a fun fact: The combination of the Atreides ability to look at all treachery cards before they are auctioned, the Emperor's power to gift money to allies and receive all auction payments, and the Harkonnen eight card hand size meant that our alliance dominated the treachery card auctions. If a card was crucial, we could get it for essentially no cost. On several occasions, we managed to bluff our opponents into paying way too much for entirely worthless cards. Oh, how we laughed!

Here's a not so fun fact: the BG voice power is really annoying, especially when shared with allies.

So that's a totally unbiased account of our second game of Dune. No clear winner when we called it, but things were heavily tilted toward the glorious A-E-H alliance.

Game on!

October 9 Game Night

October. At my house. We'll try to get some shellacked gourds or something. That'll be festive.

Game on!

September 25 Game night

Activities: Castle Panic (x2), Dominion, Pit(x2). Maybe more? I wandered off.

Personnel: Anthony, Brian, Dagon, Daniel, Erica, Jason, Jeff, Paul, and two friends of Erica's whose names I cannot recall.

That is all!

Special Session: Dune (9/8/12)

Six of us met on Saturday to vie for control of Arakeen's worm-ravaged wastes. We were: Atreides (Shelly), Bene Gesserit (Paul), the Emperor (Romeo), the Fremen (Brian),  the Guild (Dave),  and Harkonnen (Cade).

Atreides pulled off a decisive turn three solo win, brushing back our combined attempts to stop her (once we woke up and saw the danger). Well played, Shelly!

The game was very thematic and interesting. I'm definitely going to try to get it to the table again soon.

September 11 Game Night

Good times were had by the gang:

* One absurdly long game of El Grande played byAnthony, Dagon, Dave/Paul, Erica, and Shelly.

* While they slogged it out, Brian, Frank, Jason, and Jeff played Glory to Rome, San Juan, and No Thanks! (x2).

Then the group fragmented, with some slinking away and a brave handful hanging on for a last fling of 7 (5) Wonders.

August 28 Game Night

As expected, good times were had. All a Belfort-colored  blur...

Special Session 8/11/12

Steve hosted us for a bonus day of fun. In attendance were Anthony, Brian, Cade(!), Dagon, Erica, and Jason. Games played included Adventurers, Attika, Kingdom Builder, King of Tokyo, and Risk Legacy.

I left early.  If anyone wants to notes games played later, just comment. Thanks.

August 14 Game Night

First meeting at our revamped digs. We all took our shoes off and slid around on the new floors.

Actually, no, but we should have.

Instead we played: Acquire, For Sale, Ingenious, King of Tokyo (x2?), No Thanks (x2), and San Juan.

"We" were: Brian, Evan, Frank, Jason, Jeff, Jennifer, [Nora, who likes dogs!], Paul, Shelly, and Steve.

July 31 Game Night

Couldn't attend this one, but it sounds like it was everything you might want it to be. Games played were risk legacy, Quarriors x2, Ra, lost cities, and galaxy trucker.


Fun!

July 17 game night

As predicted, fun was had. We were 10: Alice, Anthony, Brian, Dagon, Erica, Jason, Jeff, Paul, Shelly, and Steve.

Things I saw hit the table were: 7 Wonders, Dice Town, Guillotine, Hanabi, Kingdom Builder, San Juan, and Village.

July 3 Game Night

Medium-sized group gathered and gamed. We were Anthony, Brian, Dagon, Erica, Jason, Jeff1, Jeff2, Paul, and Shelly. I spied: Ascending Empires, Infiltration, No Thanks!, San Juan, Scrabble Slam, Skull & Roses, and Tsuro. Game on!

June 19 Game Night

Our modest little game group continues to grow in size.

We had TWO Brians, TWO Jens, one of TWO Jeffs, an infant (!), as well as Alice, Anthony, Dagon, Erica, Evan, Jason, Paul, Shelly, and Steve. That's fifteen (not counting the infant).

Games played included:

Cards Against Humanity (x2)
Neue Heimat
Risk Legacy
Sentinals of the Multiverse
and Stone Age

June 5 Game night

Jenn hosted this one, slaving over a hot grill to keep us fed. Newcomers Frank and Jessica attended, along with Brian, Dee, Jason, Jeff, Paul, Romeo, Shelly, and Steve. We played Can't Stop! (by the pool), Neue Heimat (which was new, but not at all homey), Bucket King, and a marathon game of Lords of Waterdeep (which might still be going on). Fun was had.