Chewsday Challenge - North Albert Boston Pizza - September 23, 2014 (18:00)

[Dana_Tillusz]

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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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THIS WEEK'S EVENT AMBASSADOR: Bryce Robinson

GAME: Among the Stars
TEACHER: silent_rob
START TIME: 6:30
DURATION: ...90 Minutes
PLAYERS... 4
1. silent_rob
2. prairieguy
3. Lori
4. PhotoJim

GAME: Catan Histories Merchants of Europe
TEACHER:  Miles
START TIME: 6:30
DURATION: 120 minutes
PLAYERS... 3-4
1. Miles
2. Jhegel
3.
4.


GAME: Power Grid: Canada
TEACHER: DCStyles
START TIME: 6:30
DURATION: 120
PLAYERS... 6
1. DCStyles
2. GreyLurker
3. Jason
4. dcole
5.
6.

GAME: Formula D
TEACHER: Tempest
START TIME: 6:30
DURATION: 120-180 min
PLAYERS... 10
1. Tempest
2. BrittaniBruder
3.
4.
5.
...6.7.8.9.10

GAME: Archipelago
TEACHER: Scuudz
START TIME: 7:00
DURATION: 180 min
PLAYERS... 5
1. Scuudz
2. Amanda (tentative)
3. Matt Robertson
4. Dana Tillusz
5. omegadirective

GAME: Krosmaster Arena
TEACHER: NeikeDjour
START TIME: 8:30
DURATION: 120 minutes
PLAYERS... 4
1. NeikeDjour
2.
3.
4.

GAME: Mice & Mystics
TEACHER: prairieguy
START TIME: 8:30
DURATION: 120 Minutes
PLAYERS...
1. prairieguy
2. silent_rob
3. cordawg
4. brittanibruder

GAME:  Star Wars X-Wing
TEACHER: DCStyles
START TIME: 8:30
DURATION: 120 Minutes
PLAYERS... 4
1. DCStyles
2. Bricktown
3. dcole
4. Warren

GAME: Russian Railroads
TEACHER: omegadirective
START TIME: 10:00
DURATION: 120 Minutes
PLAYERS... 4
1. omegadirective
2. Jhegel
3. Mark M
4.


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.

[prairieguy]

Let's try this again! (4 players, 120 minutes @ 8:30pm)

In Mice and Mystics players take on the roles of those still loyal to the king – but to escape the clutches of Vanestra, they have been turned into mice! Play as cunning field mice who must race through a castle now twenty times larger than before. The castle would be a dangerous place with Vanestra's minions in control, but now countless other terrors also await heroes who are but the size of figs. Play as nimble Prince Collin and fence your way past your foes, or try Nez Bellows, the burly smith. Confound your foes as the wizened old mouse Maginos, or protect your companions as Tilda, the castle's former healer. Every player will have a vital role in the quest to warn the king, and it will take careful planning to find Vanestra's weakness and defeat her. Mice and Mystics is a cooperative adventure game in which the players work together to save an imperiled kingdom. They will face countless adversaries such as rats, cockroaches, and spiders, and of course the greatest of all horrors: the castle's housecat, Brodie. Mice and Mystics is a boldly innovative game that thrusts players into an ever-changing, interactive environment, and features a rich storyline that the players help create as they play the game. The Cheese System allows players to hoard the crumbs of precious cheese they find on their journey, and use it to bolster their mice with grandiose new abilities and overcome seemingly insurmountable odds. Mice and Mystics will provide any group of friends with an unforgettable adventure they will be talking about for years to come – assuming they can all squeak by...

[Cordawg]

I'll play mice and mystics

[silent_rob]

Sure, I'll continue with my character from the last game of Mice & Mystics.

[Falconias]

And I can't make this one. The one night all year that I'm stuck with a Tuesday night symphony rehearsal!  Hopefully not the last round of Mice & Mystics.

[BritAdam]

Can you sign me up for Mice and Mystics?  I've never played, but it sounds fun!

[prairieguy]

No worries Falconias - I plan on working through the scenarios through the winter

[scuudz]

I will be bringing Archipelago for a 7pm start.  2-5 players.  I have only played once before this (so it will be a kind of learning game for me too), and if we have 5 players, the game could last upto 3 hours.  Please include my gf (Amanda) in the list of players tentatively as well. 

[silent_rob]

I'm bringing the sci-fi card game Among The Stars to play at 6:30.  It's a card drafting game with a spacial, tile-placing element - the cards are rooms/areas that each player buys and places to build the greatest space station in the galaxy (meaning your station scores more points than your opponents' stations).  There are also variable player powers based on which alien you end up being and a few additional elements that are optional.  Depending on how players feel about the basics, we can add in more or less of them (though most of the optional extras are pretty straight-forward)

We'll go over the rules to start so new players are welcome.  Standard game time is 60 minutes but I'd estimate it's closer to 90 minutes with first-time players.

(4 players, 90 minutes at 6:30)

Among the Stars takes place in a war-ravaged galaxy where the warring alien races have declared peace in the wake of a threat with the potential to destroy them all. An Alliance is established to build space stations throughout the galaxy in order to promote trade among the races, strengthen diplomatic relations, and defend against this impending threat. Each player takes the role of one of those races trying to build the greatest space station. Through card drafting, the players select locations, and use these to build their station, scoring victory points based on the placement. The construction lasts four years, and alien race with the most points at the end wins.

[silent_rob]

By the way, a "year" is how the makers of Among The Stars refer to a round of play.  So when the blurb says "four years" it means four rounds. No need to worry.