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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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Anyway -- I disagree with you on a few points.
1) It costs 5 to build into a major city because of the Alpine posts. Otherwise, you could get away with not paying 5 to build through them, if you were clever.
2) Boats are not useless. I don't think you spend too much money, for one -- you know you only pay for the TRIP, not per turn, of using the boat? Also, we were playing with the 1.5 speed rule (all trains go 1.5 their listed speed, so a Teapot goes 15 and an Iron Dragon goes 24) and it applied to boats too. So most reasonable boat trips could be made in 2 turns. I do agree that the Weefolk are useless.
3) Rainbow bridge would be better with the old "Only lasts one turn" rule.
4) Starting in Eaglehawk is bad because you'll be fighting for Bluefeld territory later. However, having a track to Eaglehawk early on can be good, because people will pay you to use it rather than build it themselves at that point, especially if you're playing 1.5 or 2 speed trains.
Cards DO mean a lot, though. I've wondered sometimes if I don't win these games because I get bad contracts, or because I don't optimize my cards/contracts properly. This past game, I just know that Tom got MUCH better contract cards than anyone else, straight out.
I mean, I love Iron Dragon. I wish people would play it more. Most of my friends that used to love it are just totally burned out on it now.
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