Another year...Another WR...

[gecko3d]

Just wanted to post and say that once again I had a great time at this year's winter retreat. Good to see so many faces familiar and new...

Next year Eddie and I really have to liaise over which games we are taking so we don't end up with multiple copies of Dust and no copies of Warrior Knights!

Heads of State seemed to prove quite popular (I played two games of it, and apparently it was used several times by others over the weekend.

I finally got to play Pandemic (twice) but neither time managed to actually get the rules right - my incompetence was vindicated by finding out that at least 3 other games of it were played using variously wrong versions of the rules over the weekend!

Twilight Imperium on Saturday was awesome and epic - count me in for future sessions! In fact, I am seriously considering organising another game of it before next WR, so David and I can justify the investment we made in purchasing it in the first place! Next time we play Sean and I won't sit either side of Keith so someone else can be blamed for cornering him and nearly wiping out his entire race (thus generating a series of tit-for-tat vengeance maneuvers!)

Through the Desert proved popular too, which pleased me since it is one of my favorites too - watching everyones reactions to a game featuring piles of pastel coloured camels was amusing!

Thanks to Nigel for running the games (or "pastimes" if you are Terry...) of "Do you worship Cthulhu?" on Saturday evening - I was too tired to engage in child-scaring moderation and he came to the rescue admirably and allowed me to play for once!

All in all, a fun weekend - thanks to all who helped make it so.

Adam

[keithdone]

I had a great time at Winter Retreat this year. I played:

Twilight Imperium (Liam Polkinghorne must die for the atrocities he commited on me)

Pandemic (the game won!)

3x games of Ra ( I won one of these)

Zooleretto (I got beaten by Gracie! Oh, the humiliation)

Carcasonne (Yay! I beat Caffrey and Krause at their own game!)

Blokus (I lost to Krause)

Battlestar Galactica (I was human and played Tigh - Cylons won with a boarding party)

C'thullu Cultists Game (I was a cultist but was caught out in game 1. I was a Villager in game 2 and was the first sacrifice!)

A big thanks to Eddie for organisig this year's WR - this was his first one, having taken on the role of Events Coordinator on the committee. Everything went exceedingly well from my perspective.

Also, thanks for Shags who had to deal with the incoming money and paying the bills!

Regards,

Keith

[kimhinze]

I had serious withdrawl on Monday from not playing board games and I haven't stopped playing games in my sleep since Friday night! I had such a great time on the weekend playing games with the LXG team.

Games I played: Mammoth Hunters; Reef Encounter; Ticket to Ride; Struggle of Empires; Cosmic Encounter; Tichu; Do you worship Cthulhu; Starship Catan; Through the Dessert; Heads of state.

The wish list of games I wanted play was about three times greater than this. The list of games I brought to the winter retreat was about five time greater than this. Next year I will pack one less game and one extra jumper!

Thanks to everyone for a great weekend, Kim

[lyrebird]

OK.

Winter Retreat report.

Lost Pandemic 2 times. (Thrice, counting the game when Medic McMorton went to help out the Congolese).

Won Union Pacific once out of two (using the variable track variant).

Lost Carcossonne to someone.

Set off Fire alarm once.

Regained Magic Nerd title.

Got almost enough sleep.

Took children to green slimed dam, and blamed it on Hubertus.

Failed to play either Caylus or Puerto Rico.

Avoided playing and losing to Ben all weekend.

Was hot in sleeping bag.

Observed Callum eat about 300 mils of cream with four pikelets.

Lyrebird