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What: ChewsDay Challenge Boardgame Night.
Where: Boston Pizza, North Albert Street (Regina)
When: Every ChewsDay Night.
Who: Anyone interested in playing boardgames.
Why: Life is Short; Play Games!

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:excited Click HERE for Important Information about these events (http://sask.games/index.php?topic=2043.0) :excited

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THIS WEEK'S EVENT AMBASSADOR: Chad Boudreau
THIS WEEK'S GAME HOST: Bryce Robinson
THIS WEEK'S FEATURE GAME: What's He Building in There?

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GAME: What's He Building in There?
TEACHER: Bryce Robinson
START TIME: 6:30pm
DURATION: 180 Minutes
PLAYERS...
1. Bryce Robinson
2. Matt Robertson
3. Robert Kuster
4. scuudz
5. Colin Dearborn
6. NeikeDjour

GAME: Nation: A Mighty Spark
TEACHER: Marc Bendig
START TIME: 6:30pm
DURATION: 60 Minutes
PLAYERS 4
1. Marc Bendig
2. prairieguy
3. omegadirective
4.

GAME: Dr. Shark
TEACHER: Lareina
START TIME: 7:00pm
DURATION: 60 Minutes
PLAYERS 6
1. Lareina
2. Chris
3. Roxy72
4. Junacorn
5. miles
6. CappyZed

GAME: D-Day Dice
TEACHER: Prairieguy
START TIME: 7:30pm
DURATION: 60 Minutes
PLAYERS 4
1. Prairieguy
2.
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4.

GAME: 7 Wonders
TEACHER: scuudz
START TIME: 8:30pm
DURATION: 60 Minutes
PLAYERS 7
1. scuudz
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GAME: The Cowboys
TEACHER: Chad Boudreau
START TIME: 8:30pm
DURATION: 90 Minutes
PLAYERS 4
1. Chad Boudreau
2. Bellis
3. omegadirective
4. Maelven

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If you would like to schedule a game. Please post in this event thread with the following information:
Name of the game, when you would like to start, The duration of the game, and the number of players it can accommodate.

Due to popular demand:

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Now that you've got some experience as an Evil Doctor, it's time to move onward and upward. Where's the place to be in the Evil Doctoring World of the late 1800s? London. What's your plan? Find a cheap warehouse somewhere to build your Doomsday Machine. Scotland Yard is on your trail, however, so in addition to your Doomsday Machine, you'll have to build an Escape Plan. In the worker-placement style game What's He Building in There?, players use their Doctors and three henchmen to acquire resources at the available shops, acquire gold, visit the black markets, provide the "Genius at Work" labor (GAW), provide "Manual Labor" (ML), improve the Doctor's social standing, and invent things. You must complete both a Doomsday Machine and an Escape Plan, with higher level Doomsday Machines and Escape Plans garnering more victory points, and you need to do it quickly. Scotland Yard is getting suspicious, after all, so you have to do what you need to do in 15 turns. Players can earn additional victory points for fitting in with society, eccentricity, security and inventions.

Matt Robertson & Robert Kuster would like to see what Bryce is building in there.

Please sign me up for what's he building in there?

I will bring 7 Wonders along and could teach/run a game of that once the previous game is done. 

7 wonders plays 2-7 and runs about 60 mins including teaching time.

Matt - let me know if the Combat Commander fan you were referring to at the expo will be in attendance.  If so, and if we have time, maybe he/she can teach me the game!

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7 Wonders lasts three ages. In each age, players receive seven cards from a particular deck, choose one of those cards, then pass the remainder to an adjacent player. Players reveal their cards simultaneously, paying resources if needed or collecting resources or interacting with other players in various ways. (Players have individual boards with special powers on which to organize their cards, and the boards are double-sided). Each player then chooses another card from the deck they were passed, and the process repeats until players have six cards in play from that age. After three ages, the game ends. In essence 7 Wonders is a card development game. Some cards have immediate effects, while others provide bonuses or upgrades later in the game. Some cards provide discounts on future purchases. Some provide military strength to overpower your neighbors and others give nothing but victory points. Each card is played immediately after being drafted, so you'll know which cards your neighbor is receiving and how his choices might affect what you've already built up. Cards are passed left-right-left over the three ages, so you need to keep an eye on the neighbors in both directions.

I'm bringing The Cowboys again for another go. I've been adding some rules as a playtest for a miniatures Western game I'm running for another group in the near future. Based on how last week's game of Cowboys went, I'm dropping a couple rules, and modifying another. I'd like to give it another go.

The Cowboys uses modular boards, cardboard stand-ups, and is a thematic shoot 'em up. Last week, after robbing a bank, Bellis and KimberlyCupcake's 5 villains had to escape with the loot. It wasn't going to be easy though. The townsfolk caught wind of the robbery and were converging on the bank. Only 2 of the 5 bad guys escaped but that is all that was needed for a win. Bodies littered the street and alleyways.

My favorite moment: One of the villains mounted a horse, snapped the reins, and raced down the street toward approaching townfolk. His shots missed. The townsfolk did not. The cowboy took a hit. Then the horse got shot. The cowboy was thrown from the saddle and lay in the dirt dazed for a round. When he stood up he found himself surrounded by angry townsfolk. The cowboy went down in a hail of rifle-fire. It was at that point Bellis and KimberlyCupcake abandoned that route and decided to turn the villains around and try a different route.

I was also fond of the moment when a horribly wounded cowboy turned on his heel and slowly crept through the back-door of the saloon, thinking he could get away. The townsman who had wounded him moved quickly, closed the gap, and shot the wounded cowboy in the back in the saloon. There isn't a lot of the honour in this version of the Old West.

So if you want to slap leather and test your mettle, sign-up for The Cowboys.

I will sign up for Whats he Building in there too.

I'll go into Whats he Building in There

Just making a note that I'll be there for Risk Legacy night. Should most likely be starting after 7:00. If there's time afterwards I'll probably bring around Legendary or something.

Chris and I will be teaching Dr Shark @ 7pm: http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/108783/dr-shark

It's a dexterity game that uses touch, so if you have really callous fingers, this game will be somewhat difficult for you. The game goes up to 6 players, so 4 more players, and takes about an hour and 15 mins with explanation.

I adjusted the run time on WHBIT. Box lists game time at about 30 mins per player.

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South Pacific: The famous Dr. Shark, a mysterious character strongly suspected of heading a secret criminal organization, is organizing a cocktail party on his private island. You are a secret agent and have just received an encrypted text message: "Cocktail party organized by Dr Shark – Important evidence probably hidden in pool – Attend party and recover evidence – Beware sharks!" At the request of your country's counter-intelligence services, you will mingle with other guests at the reception. Your mission: Dive into the pool to retrieve clues hidden by the infamous Dr. Shark – without falling prey to the sharks underneath the water! Back on the surface, you will try to group your clues to form evidence. The secret agent who has put together the biggest dossier against Dr. Shark will have the privilege of putting him behind bars. Mission accomplished. The other secret agents will be thrown into the pool... Dr. Shark brings a new feel to the idea of a dexterity game as players will rely on their sense of touch to discover evidence against this evildoer. Players have only thirty seconds per dive to recover as many clues as possible from the bottom of the pool, using their fingers to detect an object's shape and texture.

I'll sign up for Dr Shark

I could host D-Day Dice for 4 at 7:30, it would be my first time hosting – as good a time as any to get involved right? Playing time is 45 minutes to an hour.

Normandy, June 6th, 1944 – as you land on the well-defended beaches, a German machine gun nest is killing your comrades like flies. You must do something!
In D-Day Dice, players are Allied soldiers trying to organize improvised units for an attack against the machine gun nest. Each player starts the game with a unit of a few soldiers and nothing else. As the game progresses, he will collect resources and advance on the beach, sector by sector, as his unit grows stronger and deadlier. He will succeed...or die trying.
D-Day Dice is a multiplayer co-op game, where all players play their turn simultaneously and must help each other in order to stay alive. It also includes solitaire optional rules. Although built around dice rolling, this game is about resource management (soldiers, specialists, items and courage) and knowing when to move your unit. Resources are kept from turn to turn, so the players can plan ahead.

To avoid confusion, I've removed any post that mentioned Dead Panic.

Dr. Shark looks cool, but the timing doesn't work out for me.
So instead, I'll run Nation: a Mighty Spark

Could you sign me up for Dr. Spark

I'm up for another round of Cowboys Chad! I've almost recovered from my wounds of last week's bank robbery, and I'd like to get revenge on all the town folk varmints that took out my partners. I've also been hearing about a stage coach that's heading our way, loaded with gold bullion, and not very well protected. Hmmm...............

Oh, good news... looks like I don't have to work at all so I'll be showing up closer to 6 so hopefully we can get an earlier start for Risk. (Also making a note in the League thread).

Please sign me up for Dr. Shark!

sign me up for Nation

Sign me up for Nation and Cowboys please!

A reminder that tonight is draw night! You have to attend to win. We'll be drawing for a gift certificate from Boston Pizza and a gift certificate from ComicReaders.

(Perhaps another Ambassador can remind us what values are up for grabs because I've forgotten!)

Please put me down for Dr Shark

"I love the sound of dice rolling in the evening!" - Apocalypse Now

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Normandy, June 6th, 1944 – as you land on the well-defended beaches, a German machine gun nest is killing your comrades like flies. You must do something! In D-Day Dice, players are Allied soldiers trying to organize improvised units for an attack against the machine gun nest. Each player starts the game with a unit of a few soldiers and nothing else. As the game progresses, he will collect resources and advance on the beach, sector by sector, as his unit grows stronger and deadlier. He will succeed...or die trying. D-Day Dice is a multiplayer co-op game, where all players play their turn simultaneously and must help each other in order to stay alive. It also includes solitaire optional rules. Although built around dice rolling, this game is about resource management (soldiers, specialists, items and courage) and knowing when to move your unit. Resources are kept from turn to turn, so the players can plan ahead.

I'll sign up for some Cowboys if you still got room.

Thanks for making it look pretty Matt - maybe someone will get interested! If not I will bring anyway in case someone changes their mind   :D

I'll run a game of Pandemic at 6:30 since I had to leave early from the game last week.  Will also be using the roles and events from the On the Brink expansion.

Quote(Perhaps another Ambassador can remind us what values are up for grabs because I've forgotten!)

Or I'll figure it out...

Tonight:
$25 ComicReaders
$75 Boston Pizza

ATTENDANCE: 47

GAMES PLAYED: What's He Building in There?, Love Letter, Wits & Wagers, Pandemic, Risk Legacy, Nation: A Mighty Spark, Bang!, Dr. Shark, Munchkin, Backgammon, Las Vegas, Target, Dungeon Roll, Panic Station, Settlers of Catan, Legendary: A Marvel Deck-Building Game, Wizard, The Cowboys.

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
(1) It was draw night! Patrick Leblanc won the $75 gift certificate for Boston Pizza. Colin Dearborn was drawn for the $25 ComicReaders gift certificate but he was not in attendance so the gift certificate will carry over to next month. That means we're drawing for $50 for ComicReaders in March.
(2) Lots of repeat attendees this week. Always good to see familiar faces!
(3) A handful of new attendees this week. A big thanks to everyone who helped the new arrivals feel welcome.

Be sure to check out the revised venue info page and FAQ HERE (http://sask.games/index.php?topic=2043.0)

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