Indoctrination
May. 30th, 2005 11:58 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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cmouse, purplebob, and bf over yesterday for gaming. First we playing a surprisingly quick game of 1856, which everyone appeared to enjoy. It was fairly conservative as far as 18XX goes, but there were three newbies too. bf had what I considered an innovative approach to starting one of the western railways which worked well, but purplebob converted an expensive private company to cash fairly quickly and I think that ultimately made a big difference for him in the end. Everyone was sufficiently debt-averse that the all-powerful Canadian Government Railway didn't start. The end of the game did get into a minor token fight, so there were the companies without diesels, the companies with diesels that couldn't get to Toronto, and the ones you really wanted to invest in. Ran pretty reasonably, no bitter recriminations.
We then discovered that bf hadn't played Puerto Rico before, so we taught her that.narya fed us a very delicious pot roast. Then, in her words, she "kicked [our] sorry little asses at amoebas"; I never fully got Ursuppe but tried (with moderate but not extreme success) the "spawn cheap amoebas everywhere" strategy, beating the "active movement is fast and free" strategy and losing to the combination of Frugality and Tentacle.
All in all, a good use of a long-weekend day.
cmouse, purplebob, and bf over yesterday for gaming. First we playing a surprisingly quick game of 1856, which everyone appeared to enjoy. It was fairly conservative as far as 18XX goes, but there were three newbies too. bf had what I considered an innovative approach to starting one of the western railways which worked well, but purplebob converted an expensive private company to cash fairly quickly and I think that ultimately made a big difference for him in the end. Everyone was sufficiently debt-averse that the all-powerful Canadian Government Railway didn't start. The end of the game did get into a minor token fight, so there were the companies without diesels, the companies with diesels that couldn't get to Toronto, and the ones you really wanted to invest in. Ran pretty reasonably, no bitter recriminations.We then discovered that bf hadn't played Puerto Rico before, so we taught her that.
narya fed us a very delicious pot roast. Then, in her words, she "kicked [our] sorry little asses at amoebas"; I never fully got Ursuppe but tried (with moderate but not extreme success) the "spawn cheap amoebas everywhere" strategy, beating the "active movement is fast and free" strategy and losing to the combination of Frugality and Tentacle.All in all, a good use of a long-weekend day.
