| Gamers: Ainul (aanemesis), Alan Tan, Vincent, and Jeffrey Au (jack208)
Games: Caylus, 1856
Location: Old Town Kopitiam, Cheras
Date/Time: 16 March 07 (Fri) 8.00 PM - 2.00 AM |
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KL BOARDGAMES MEETUP REPORT @ OLD TOWN KOPITIAM CHERAS 16/3/07
by jack208
| THE FUTURE OF 18XX IS BRIGHT |
Our usual Fri evening meetup at Old Town Kopitiam (OTK) but this week looks like a weak turnout day with many of the regulars on dinner appointment, and one going down to Singapore for some event involving shifting alphabets around.
However Boardgamecafe.net do have an event earlier from 6pm. We hosted a 2-hr Children Birthday Boardgames Party at Old Town Kopitiam and thus some of us were there earlier to facilitate the children boardgames.
CAYLUS
reported by jack208 |
If 1856 looks like the staple diet of OTK, then Caylus seems to be the staple appetizer here!
After facilitating a round of Memoir '44 for the children, I found Ainul trying to start a 2-player Caylus game with Alan Tan. How can! So I prompted interrupted and got myself inserted into a 3-player game.
Sorry, picture out of focus but still must post coz it's Ainul's inaugural win of Caylus, yah!
I believe after this evening's game, Caylus went up to 9 in Ainul's rating (coz he won our 3-player game!) Well played Ainul!
1856 (UPPER CANADA)
reported by jack208 |
Next we did... ar... 1856.
Actually I brought Puerto Rico which I intend to bring to the table but since Vincent (our new member from last week) arrived and he's like V E R Y K E E N to learn the 18xx games, we thought it would be good to do a learning game for him, fixing the end-game to 2am (that's when OTK closes on Fri).
I won't go into details for this session as it was meant to be a learning game for Vincent (read: very the friendly) to learn the ropes of the various phases and trigger points in the game. The four public companies started at SR#1 were GW (jack208) at $80, BBG (vincent) at $75, LPS (alan) at $65, and CPR (ainul) at $65.
Trains were sold quite slowly... but it did get to a tense stage when the last type-4 trains were sold. At that time, Ainul and jack208 have 2 companies each. Ainul's CPR and CV having one Type-4 train, while my GW has a 4/5 and CA has 3/5. BBG (vincent) has a 3/5 while Alan's LPS has 3/4.
That was an interesting moment including the chance for Double Hotsun which Mr CPR was kind enough not to execute as he wanted the session to be Friendly one mah...
BBG did manage to drive quite far and has potential for good runs
The usual western trinity. Some interesting builds here with a key build in the small towns south of Kitchener
CV coming out from Toronto but later getting tokened out (an important choke point)
Our 18xx Vice Prez (right) showing new 18xx "fan" Vincent (left) how to feel the Force
We find that 4-player 1856 is a very good set up for learning game. If you decide to play the game for a fixed amount of time say 3 hrs, a newbie can learn the ropes easily without having to invest in a break-the-bank session as it's very likely the early choices made by the newbie won't be very advantageous.
BUILDING THE FOUNDATION FOR 18XX
reported by jack208 |
Remember I mentioned about the children having their boardgames party earlier? They enjoyed themselves tremendously till 930pm.
The new younglings enjoying their boardgame sessions (read report here)
But more importantly, they represent the future of 18xx! We'll be assigning some Padawans to monitor the progress of these younglings as they undergo their Jedi (Boardgame) Initiate programme. The bright ones from these younglings shall be chosen by the Padawans and be sent to the Jedi 18xx camp for fast fast induction into our 18xx programme.
So the future looks bright! More mini HotSun coming.... hehe
The identity of these two Padawans shud be kept secret to prevent disturbance from the Dark Lord Sidious
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16-03-2007