Match Report 11th April 2011

Our first evening playing two games simultaneously

The 11th April was a while ago now and we have been distracted by many different things, not least two 7 year old boys, so apologies for the delay in getting this post together.

We had a good turnout and after much discussion over the weeks we finally took the plunge and broke the group in two with Gwen leading one and me the other. So at one end Gwen played a game of Stone Age with Crispin and Daniella. A simply brilliant game that I was lucky enough to be given by my Russian
secret Santa and has rapidly become one of Gwen’s favourites and one that she has shown a singular talent for winning at – winning all bar one of the games. I am trying to get her to give me a game and a chance to challenge her dominance at this game but as yet she hasn’t taken up my offer!

Galaxy Trucker (Age 10+, 2-4 players, 60 min playing time)

At the other end of the table we played Galaxy Trucker, a very different game and with a setting light year’s away from all the hunting and gathering Gwen, Daniella and Crispin were doing. The game was described in some detail in my last match report. Essentially you go on three missions and build space craft to take you on these missions. As is the way of games these craft get steadily bigger and the missions harder. Our final mission is recorded below in the photos showing the before and after state of our four spacecraft, all of which suffered from pirate attacks, meteor storms etc, but one more than the others!

My Spacecraft (I lost a large part of the front of my ship to meteors, but not as much as some!)

At the start of the mission

At the end of the mission

Natalie's Spacecraft (She tried to go for a small ship in the hope of slipping through the mission unnoticed. Sadly she also lost a large part of the front of her ship)

At the start of the mission

At the end of the mission

Joe's Spacecraft (It started large well armed and with lots of engines. It limped home having lost a large part of everything!)

At the start of the mission

At the end of the mission

Ben's Spacecraft  (A strange looking spacecraft but one that somehow weathered the ravages of deep space better than the rest of us)

At the start of the mission

At the end of the mission

A really fun evening with two very different games and munchies provided by Natalie (thank you).