Tuesday, September 26, 2006
Tuesday 19th September
In attendance:
Huw Morris
Ralph Grimble
Rick Appleton
Simon Canter
No Adrian tonight unusually. Four players though, so perfect for Caylus, which we haven't managed to play in a while.
Caylus
Simon had played once before, as had (I think) Rick. We needed a quick refresher, but I think everybody quickly remembered how to play. I decided to eschew the building track for a change, and build an early Mason. Rick and Ralph did play on the building track, and it worked out quite nicely for them.
Early on, Simon lagged behind a bit. Midgame, he and Rick both built a few wooden buildings which got used a lot by other players, and Simon caught up. Rick started winning favours and used the building track to put up stone buildings and moved into the lead. I was accumulating gold, and was in a position to build a blue building before game's end. Chances are though, that it wouldn't have been enough, as Rick's lead was about 14 points by that time.
Annoyingly, we didn't manage to finish this week either. With only four players, and no lengthy instructions, there really is no excuse - we were just playing too slowly. As it was, at 11pm Rick announced he had to catch his bus home, and we were unable to complete the last two rounds. Everybody else had up to that point been couinting on finishing at 11:20 instead. Normally, Adrian would have been able to give Rick a lift home...
So that's two weeks in a row we've been unable to finish. I'll have to make sure it doesn't happen a third time..
Huw Morris
Ralph Grimble
Rick Appleton
Simon Canter
No Adrian tonight unusually. Four players though, so perfect for Caylus, which we haven't managed to play in a while.
Caylus
Simon had played once before, as had (I think) Rick. We needed a quick refresher, but I think everybody quickly remembered how to play. I decided to eschew the building track for a change, and build an early Mason. Rick and Ralph did play on the building track, and it worked out quite nicely for them.
Early on, Simon lagged behind a bit. Midgame, he and Rick both built a few wooden buildings which got used a lot by other players, and Simon caught up. Rick started winning favours and used the building track to put up stone buildings and moved into the lead. I was accumulating gold, and was in a position to build a blue building before game's end. Chances are though, that it wouldn't have been enough, as Rick's lead was about 14 points by that time.
Annoyingly, we didn't manage to finish this week either. With only four players, and no lengthy instructions, there really is no excuse - we were just playing too slowly. As it was, at 11pm Rick announced he had to catch his bus home, and we were unable to complete the last two rounds. Everybody else had up to that point been couinting on finishing at 11:20 instead. Normally, Adrian would have been able to give Rick a lift home...
So that's two weeks in a row we've been unable to finish. I'll have to make sure it doesn't happen a third time..
# posted by Huw @ 3:45 pm 
