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I. Ron Dragon
Woooooooooooooooooooo!
Brian and I finally got some people together to play Iron Dragon! I went out to Microsoft, building 50's cafeteria thingy because they do TEBG there. Drew came, as did one of Brian's coworkers, Tom. We broke out my set of Iron Dragon, which I have had for 2-3 years and had never opened. So, we explained the rules, and got down to playing. I started out with some pretty crappy contracts and never really caught up. Tom, who had never played before, got a ton of great Olde World contracts and so he pulled ahead on money early, but Brian was pretty close on his heels. Oddly, when I finally connected 7 cities, I was ahead on money at the time, but I had no decent contracts going on, so bleh. I finished the game with 206 money, and a contact for 49, but it would have taken me a boat and riding Drew's tracks to fill it, so bleh. Tom won pretty soundly. And, as usual, the BOARD TOTALLY SCREWED ME OVER. I swear. I have *proof*!
Drew and Brian and I adjourned to get dinner and play some more games. Well, kinda. We went to the Celtic Bayou, but they had a private party going on... so we decided to go to Claim Jumper. We brought in Ricochet Robot, and played it through ordering, and through eating dinner, and through dessert, and oddly nobody tried to stop us, infact a waiter came over and asked us about how the game works and stuff.
Good stuff.
Oh sigh. I have stayed up too late talking to people online again. This is not a good way to start the week.
I want to see Ocean's Twelve, and soon.
Brian and I finally got some people together to play Iron Dragon! I went out to Microsoft, building 50's cafeteria thingy because they do TEBG there. Drew came, as did one of Brian's coworkers, Tom. We broke out my set of Iron Dragon, which I have had for 2-3 years and had never opened. So, we explained the rules, and got down to playing. I started out with some pretty crappy contracts and never really caught up. Tom, who had never played before, got a ton of great Olde World contracts and so he pulled ahead on money early, but Brian was pretty close on his heels. Oddly, when I finally connected 7 cities, I was ahead on money at the time, but I had no decent contracts going on, so bleh. I finished the game with 206 money, and a contact for 49, but it would have taken me a boat and riding Drew's tracks to fill it, so bleh. Tom won pretty soundly. And, as usual, the BOARD TOTALLY SCREWED ME OVER. I swear. I have *proof*!
Drew and Brian and I adjourned to get dinner and play some more games. Well, kinda. We went to the Celtic Bayou, but they had a private party going on... so we decided to go to Claim Jumper. We brought in Ricochet Robot, and played it through ordering, and through eating dinner, and through dessert, and oddly nobody tried to stop us, infact a waiter came over and asked us about how the game works and stuff.
Good stuff.
Oh sigh. I have stayed up too late talking to people online again. This is not a good way to start the week.
I want to see Ocean's Twelve, and soon.
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Contracts can totally suck, but I think everyone takes a beating from them on average. Tom also had nice profits from his track through the underworld, like mine to Nordecassle.
As for the complaint about boats, I agree that either reducing the embark / disembark time or increase their speed. These help different parts, like not taking turns to embark, etc speeds up short trips. Maybe counting the boat / trains movement against the total that turn; for example: boat moves 8 and docks, then you can move the teapot two more.
I'd also like to see Ocean's Twelve at some point.