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)
For those who might not have noticed (and you’ll have to be quite blind to not have noticed the changes on the website) we’ve changed our venue to the Charles Dickens pub. The (used to be lovely) Beechwood Hall has changed hands so many times over the past few days/weeks/months (delete as appropriate) we were starting to wonder if we were coming or going. Anyhow in the meantime, this disturbance has led to us settling into the lovely and very accomodating Charles Dickens pub, which serves good old fashioned real ale (hurrah) and some very fine pork scratchings. So those in the club who haven’t found their way to the new venue – please do so. I’m sure you’ll like the room we’ve been given and we even get beer mats (so no reason to not come along now).
Also, speaking of changing hands, the games shop we occasionally visit in Aldershot with the catchy and very interesting name (The Games Shop) has also changed hands. Amazing to think that apart from a few games in the ‘War Games Heaven’ shop in Brighton, this is the closest proper games shop to Worthing. The new guy who owns it must know that he’s sat on a goldmine – anyhow best of luck to him. Now did we get around to talking about a discount for the next time we visit, hmmmmm sadly not!!!!!
Finally, while we’re talking about change remember that our ‘Theme Thursday’ has now a permanent ‘You Should Have Been Gaming Two Days Ago’ Theme. Yes, we have moved Theme Thursday (from the 3rd Thursday of the month to the 3rd Tuesday) to Tuesday nights as they seem to be better for everyone.
CHANGE CHANGE, CHANGE CHANGE CHANGE…
I wonder h
ow many board gamers have been thinking about their respective strategies to the Pandemic board game, during the recent outbreak of Swine Flu?
If you haven’t played the game yet, you should give it a look as instead of the player competing against each other you compete as a multi-skilled team against the game rules of the virus. This might sound easy, but as those who have given it a go will well know (and believe me it is humiliating to be beaten by a board game!) it can be quite difficult to win.
Given that this is my only experience of containing a global outbreak of a virus (!) I was expecting Swine Flu to immediately take hold and spread exponentially (as does the virus in the game). Now,don’t get me wrong I am very happy that the significant threat hasn’t really surfaced (as yet!). Perhaps the virus may re-assert itself after summer and let’s hope that it doesn’t – in the meantime, have a look at this game and test out your virus containment skills!
