{"id":1286,"date":"2009-03-05T22:52:35","date_gmt":"2009-03-05T22:52:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hamzy.net\/blog2\/?p=1286"},"modified":"2009-03-05T22:52:35","modified_gmt":"2009-03-05T22:52:35","slug":"game_day_03052009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hamzy.net\/blog2\/?p=1286","title":{"rendered":"Game Day 03\/05\/2009"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"photo\">\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/pictures.hamzy.info\/blog-photo-2N8I6995.JPG\" alt=\"Game #1\"><\/img>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardgamegeek.com\/boardgame\/28474\">Age of Steam: India<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\nI got lucky to play one of my new Age of Steam maps.  This one is about India.  There are a couple of changes to the rules (of course).  The first is that a die is rolled to simulate monsoon rains.  Depending on the roll (0:0, 1-5:1, 6:2), money must be payed for upkeep to your tracks.  The killer part is that this happens *before* you collect income.  How painful.  Especially since I rolled a 6 for 5 times during the game.  The second rules change is that no dice are rolled for goods production.  Instead, goods come out when unique players connect to the corresponding city.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nIn this game, I struck off by myself.  And was fortunate enough to be left alone.  I was also able to secure the Engineer for first the three rounds.  This allowed me to get my engine level up which I used to make long deliveries.  I jumped out far ahead of the others and stayed that way for the entire game.  There was one moment during the game where I was set up to make a couple of 5 long blue deliveries.  The turn before Jon took Urbanization.  I was worried that he might spot the Urbanization that would ruin these deliveries.  But he didn&#8217;t.  Phew.  Then Marty gets first choice of actions selects an action and then takes it back to perform the harmful Urbanization.  He was in last place and that Urbanization really didn&#8217;t help him.  But it was a hurt the leader move.  However, it really didn&#8217;t hurt me all that much.  I was so far out in the lead and I was more worried at that time of finding other deliveries to make.  Those were the last of the good deliveries in that area and I needed to branch out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Age of Steam: India I got lucky to play one of my new Age of Steam maps. This one is about India. There are a couple of changes to the rules (of course). The first is that a die is rolled to simulate monsoon rains. Depending on the roll (0:0, 1-5:1, 6:2), money must be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1286","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gaming"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hamzy.net\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1286","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hamzy.net\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hamzy.net\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hamzy.net\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hamzy.net\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1286"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hamzy.net\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1286\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hamzy.net\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hamzy.net\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hamzy.net\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}