Games Night

An old-style games night which only occurs infrequently nowadays. Jon and Ray coming around for some easter gaming.

Formula De

Running two cars each and dicing off for pole position with second cars at the rear. Montreal track is brutal on the car's tyres and brakes. A bit bland in the corner types which are basically all painful two stop corners, everybody pitted after the first lap of the two-lap race.

Metro

The track laying by committee game where longest routes win and direct lines are bad. Two games played with much confusion in the second, as sides were swapped but people initially kept playing as their original colour.

Sequence

The traditional way to end a games night. Connect4 meets Poker. Three player version seems to take slightly longer than the two player\team version but not by much. Four quick games.
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Board Again

With the Campoon Battle going on elsewhere in the hall instead played a couple of boardgames. A game of Metro and a few games of Sequence brought to the club by John in one of his irregular visits.

Martin was confident of winning Metro as 'beginners luck' should of favoured him, unfortunately he failed to take into account that there was another beginner involved to steal his Mojo and win the game. Martin trailed in badly in last place.

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The Campoon battle as expected turned out to be one-sided.

From Campoon 3

Mark ended up on the wrong side of a bad beating from Paul, losing around 1000pts of troops and it could of been worse if Paul had had some cavalry present. For someone who hates the Warhammer Ancients rules Paul always seems to do OK.

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There is a bit of a Magic the Gathering renaissance going on at the club as a top level player has moved into the area and is getting some of the 40Kers\Fantasy mob involved. And after a few mass battle games of Magic Phil got out his Pit Fighter stuff.

Hopefully a full house for Campoon next week as Jim is back in action.
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Gaming Galore

Had boardgames session on Saturday, to commiserate Ray on his forthcoming birthday, and we managed to get a surprising number of games completed.

Formula De: A quick two lap race around the Imola track, two cars each for six in total. A fast but high wear circuit if your unlucky. No crashes but a totally trashed car managed to cross the line. The new version of this is now out under the title Formula D, but not sure about it as it includes gimmicky street racing with characters, unlike the pure racing game which has a simplicity of play. Also I'm not sure that that the previous race track expansions are going to be re-released.

Metro: A Eurogame nominally about building underground railways, but really a longest pipes win game. Actually nicely aggressive for a Euro. Managed a couple of games of this.

Sequence: Another old classic. Poker meets Connect 4. In one of the games we came within a couple of rounds of a stalemate (something I've only ever seen once before.)

Cityscape: Wooden block placement game where you have to guess the final 'skyline' to earn points. Closest game of the evening ending in a two way draw with third close behind.
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