Billabong Boardgamers - 5th December, 2000
Present: Alan, Andrew, Craig
Alan Stewart writes:
CHRONONAUTS
The first was a fairly quick game, where I won by matching my ID, thanks to Craig patching the right year.
The second game went on for much longer. In fact the discard pile had to be reshuffled, much to Craig and my annoyance as we had just drawn a rewind card! I would have won this fairly warly on if 1962 had been patched and WWIII broke out (I have yet to see this happen in a game). I knew the patch was out there, as I'd had it originally before a hand reshuffle occurred. Craig refused to play it! Later he looked through the draw pile for a patch which would win him the game, but it turned out I had it in my hand. In the end Craig rescued the required artifact to complete his mission from the discard pile, immediately before Andrew would have completed another patch to record a 10 card hand victory.
THE SETTLERS OF CATAN
Using a random set up, with the numbers distributed in order. I got off to a good start with 3 city upgrades before Craig or Andrew managed one, and stayed ahead despite being trade embargoed and making do with 4 for 1 trades as I didn't have a port. Andrew taking the Longest Road off me gave him the lead for a while, but in the end production won out.
Alan 12 (3C, 3S, LA, 1 VP)
Andrew 10 (3C, 2S, LR)
Craig 9 (3C, 3S)
OLE
Two quick hands of this card game. Andrew was the only one who managed to score 0 points on a hand, and he won the second game.
Game 1:
Alan 5 + 10 + 22 = 37
Craig 12 + 25 + 16 = 53
Andrew 13 + 22 + 25 = 60
Game 2:
Alan 3 + 10 + 27 = 40
Craig 12 + 12 + 8 = 32
Andrew 0 + 16 + 9 = 25