Game Day 12/22/2005

Game #1a
Game #1b

Manifest Destiny

Ahh, another meaty and long (why am I suddenly reminded of Dan’s dice tower?) game day. I am one happy camper. We started out with Manifest Destiny. And I was hesitant to play at first. After all, I did not want to ruin my perfect record against Adam. But we played anyways. The game was going good after a while (3 hours?). However, the game started to get towards the end and the nasty cards came out! Boy, did they ever! Jon really threw a nasty card at me. I was the only one in North USA and he played what Adam terms the “black death card.” I had to vacate all but two of those areas! And loose my cities! Gah!

Which really brought home the feeling that why would I want to spend three hours playing this game if in the last rounds, I can have nasty random cards thrown at me which move me to third place. Now really, why??

Game #2

Lexio

Coincidently enough, we ended around 6pm. So we started another game of Lexio. And did this game ever make up for the bad aftertaste in my mouth. I ruled at this game! Sadly, we could not cause Adam to loose all of his money.

Game #3a
Game #3b

Titan

O.M.F.G.! I have wanted to play this game for a long time. When Adam walked in the door with Antiquity and Titan and we had five players, I was really tempted to throw someone else out. Like Mike. But now we had six players and everyone agreed to play! Woo woo!

Fortunately, I was not anhilated early and survived to the final two (with Doug). We played for a little bit, but soon realized that we would not end the game early (like before 6am). So we called it a tie!

2 thoughts on “Game Day 12/22/2005

  1. edroz

    Mark, Mark, Mark… You’re becoming a “meaty game” bigot. Praising Manifest Destiny, Titan, Kaivai, Antiquity, Caylus, Neuland. Dishing shorter games. One might think you have lost the Euro Game desire.

  2. Archilles

    Hehehe… I figure with weekly game nights of shorter games and weekly lunch time games of shorter games, I have that base covered. The meaty base has only been recently satisfied.

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