Your chummies at Underground Gamers have great pleasure to announce that our older sister club, the Brighton Boardgames Club will be hosting a leg of the Face 2 Face Diplomacy 2010 Tour of Britain.
Details can be found in this PDF – Brighton Dipcon 1 or on the Face 2 Face Diplomacy website.
In summary, it will be held on the 7th-9th May in their usual venue, the Brighton Railway Club – so don’t be shy, put on your best talking face and support the Brighton boys.
Happy birthday to Mark, Steve S, Scott and Steve H isn’t it weird that so many of our club regulars have birthdays around the same time. Handy that they all love gaming and present selection is easy – “another board or card game”! good to see the boys happy!
While on the train was thinking what is the game of the moment. My personal choice is Caylus – I played it for the first time in a UG session a few weeks ago and really liked the game play and the mechanics. Particulaly where you can cut players off (by moving the bishop back) who have taken production risks by venturing far ahead of the pack. Clever as it works as a regulator for the pace of the game stopping players venturing too far and triggering the next game phase or the game end. Also I liked the way where by any player can use the buildings erected by all players but must pay a duty to use them. This gives the game a further victory strategy – either build the buildings for yourself and to compliment the other buildings you have or build buildings that you know other players will want to use (so you can profit from them instead). Great stuff – after a few more plays we’ll stick a review on the site. Another game we had out recently was Cuba – again an interesting game which will require a few more plays to get used to. The interaction was limited but probably because we were not challenging for the elections as much as we should have been. With a few more plays I can see this element of the game getting really interesting.
The league has been updated the middle of January (eg. not including the 3rd Tuesday session) and wow, David’s once impregnable position at the top has been brutally whittled down to a single point by a ruthless Mark who has bludgeoned his way through 58 games at an average of 2.2 per game. Stevie is rapidly approaching their behinds again with a single point!!!
Now only four sessions remain and can David hold on to the coveted top spot and prise the Bernard Cup from Steve S.
Stuart’s fall from grace is similar to a lemming just after he looked over the edge to spot a landing zone! Now in fourth, overtaken by Stevie and Mark who will be sizing up the top spot still held by David (by nothing more than a good dose of luck or is it skill? Only time will tell)
