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Monday 12th May 2008

Sue and I were off in sunny London, so this mini-report is kindly provided by Rich ....

Players:

David F-F, Haydn, Lesley, Neil C, Rich

Games Played:

San Juan

Rich
Haydn
Neil
Lesley

Neil triggered the end game with 12 buildings but lost out by not having enough points in the 6 buildings. Lesley's gold mine came up trumps again with at least 4 building picked out of the mix. Rich had 2 6s and got lots of bonus points for production buildings at the end and Haydn's church stored away a good number of cards for points at the end.

Santiago

David
Haydn
Lesley
Neil
Rich

Good game with lots of high bidding meaning that people were paying 4-5 for 2nd or 3rd choice of tiles. We stupidly let David plant a banana field using all of the 9 banana tiles (Lesley helped a bit) for a staggering 81 points at the end of the game. No-one else got a look in.

Last Night on Earth

"Burn 'em Out" Scenario ....

Rich     (Zombies)
David
Haydn
Lesley
Neil        (Heroes)

Zombies win as heroes ran out of time (and cards)

This was a very tight game throughout with a small number of zombies for most of the 1st half of the game. The players spent most of the time frantically searching buildings for explosives and lighters without much luck - Lesley only moved off her starting space after about 15 turns!

The zombies weren't doing much damage to the party thanks to plenty of guns and healing but were bogging people down - which is sort of the point. A wave of zombies then took over three of the main buildings within the town meaning supplies were harder to come by and time started to get the better of the players.

With about 5 turns to go the zombies finally chowed down on the sheriff as he was mobbed by a horde! At this point the players finally had a selection of explosives and light sources and were ready to win the game. They managed to destroy 2 out of the 3 spawning pits they needed to but time was not on their side and by morning the town was overrun with zombies and they were all doomed.

It was a long game but everyone enjoyed it :-)

And that is all there was. We'll be there next week, we promise! Thanks again Rich for the update.