Post by keithdone on Jan 20, 2010 10:49:11 GMT 10
LXG January Club Report
It was good to catch up with everyone after the Christmas break. The club started up its ID tag scheme. Members can collect their tag at each meeting – this helps new people with names and helps the club correct anomalies in its records. Visitors can collect a Visitor tag at the canteen.
It was a hot day and I was kept quite busy in the morning with the canteen. I managed the Viewpoint ‘warm up’ tournament and played Sitting Ducks with the kids. Later in the day I played Quo Vadis. I hadn’t played that game for about 10 years and I discovered the reason why – I still don’t like it!
Later in the day I joined in David Kay’s Magic Grand Melee, which was very successful in 2009. I hadn’t played for over a year and threw together a blue/white deck containing an assortment of old favourites (Disenchants, Serra Angels, Counterspells, Circles and Sleights). To my amazement (and everyone else’s) I won. The full report (“How To Survive a Grand Melee) is on the LXG web-site at: qlegs.wordpress.com/
Other games I saw being played include:
Warhammer Fantasy
War Machine
Battlestar Galactica
Puerto Rico
Connect Four
Settlers of Catan
Tikal
Ticket to Ride
A new stellar expansion game that I didn’t get the name of
DnD Miniatures
Modern Art
Manhattan
Memoir 44
Wings of War
Killer Bunnies
Scrabble
Next February LXG runs Legends of Summer – two days of competitive board games, open to everyone (members and non-members).
Regards,
Keith
It was good to catch up with everyone after the Christmas break. The club started up its ID tag scheme. Members can collect their tag at each meeting – this helps new people with names and helps the club correct anomalies in its records. Visitors can collect a Visitor tag at the canteen.
It was a hot day and I was kept quite busy in the morning with the canteen. I managed the Viewpoint ‘warm up’ tournament and played Sitting Ducks with the kids. Later in the day I played Quo Vadis. I hadn’t played that game for about 10 years and I discovered the reason why – I still don’t like it!
Later in the day I joined in David Kay’s Magic Grand Melee, which was very successful in 2009. I hadn’t played for over a year and threw together a blue/white deck containing an assortment of old favourites (Disenchants, Serra Angels, Counterspells, Circles and Sleights). To my amazement (and everyone else’s) I won. The full report (“How To Survive a Grand Melee) is on the LXG web-site at: qlegs.wordpress.com/
Other games I saw being played include:
Warhammer Fantasy
War Machine
Battlestar Galactica
Puerto Rico
Connect Four
Settlers of Catan
Tikal
Ticket to Ride
A new stellar expansion game that I didn’t get the name of
DnD Miniatures
Modern Art
Manhattan
Memoir 44
Wings of War
Killer Bunnies
Scrabble
Next February LXG runs Legends of Summer – two days of competitive board games, open to everyone (members and non-members).
Regards,
Keith