Chewsday Challenge - North Albert Boston Pizza - November 25, 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: The Manhattan Project
TEACHER: craftybernardo
START TIME: 6:30
DURATION: 120 Minutes
PLAYERS... 5
1. craftybernardo
2. Street Disciple
3. GreyLurker
4. JAson
5. CappyZed

GAME: Lords of Xidit
TEACHER: NeikeDjour
START TIME: 6:30
DURATION: 120 Minutes
PLAYERS... Needs 4, up to 5
1. NeikeDjour
2. BrittaniBruder
3. Caitlin
4. Roxy72
5.

GAME: Castles of Mad King Ludwig
TEACHER: Cordawg
START TIME: 6:30
DURATION: 90 Minutes
PLAYERS... 4
1. Cordawg
2. miles
3.
4.

GAME: At the Gates of Loyang
TEACHER: Rosencrantz
START TIME: 6:30
DURATION: 120 Minutes
PLAYERS... 4
1. Rosencrantz
2. Lori
3. PhotoJim
4. Logan

GAME: Brass
TEACHER: scuudz
START TIME: 6:30
DURATION: 180 Minutes
PLAYERS... 4
1. scuudz
2. prairieguy 
3. R Newell
4.

GAME: Phantasy Star Online
TEACHER: NeikeDjour
START TIME: 8:30pm
DURATION: 60 Minutes
PLAYERS... 2
1. NeikeDjour
2.

GAME: Kremlin
TEACHER: PhotoJim
START TIME: 8:30
DURATION: 90 Minutes
PLAYERS... 6
1. PhotoJim
2. Lori
3. Jhegel
4. miles
5. BrittaniBruder
6. Caitlin

GAME: Castles of Mad King Ludwig
TEACHER: Cordawg
START TIME: 9:00
DURATION: 90 Minutes
PLAYERS... 4
1. Cordawg
2. Rosencrantz
3. Barry
4. Logan


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 the overwhelming success of ChewsDay Challenge we might need to limit table space in the early evening if attendance is high and the restaurant is busy. We ask that larger-sized games be planned for 7:30 and later after Boston Pizza's dinner rush when we can spill out into the dining area, if needed, and with the restaurant's permission.  Please be considerate when choosing your table area to maximize player density. Thank you for helping make ChewsDay Challenge a success!

[PhotoJim]

I'll run Kremlin (classic version) at 8:30 for maximum 6 players including me.  Lori will also play.  Playtime is approximately 90-100 minutes including teaching.

Kremlin A game of political intrigue set in the Soviet Politburo. The game consists of a large number of politician cards, some of which form the first politburo. Politicians have certain stats (preferred offices, for instance) and an age. At the start of the game, the players secretly note influence on ten politicians, graded from 10 (most) to 1 (least). Gameplay is not clockwise, but happens from top to bottom in the politburo. Whatever action the politician in a certain office can take is done by the player who reveals the greatest influence on the politician in question. Actions include accusing other politicians of espionage (potentially exiling them to Siberia), pardoning them, reshuffling the politburo and others. But each action a politician takes lets him (or in one case, her) age by one or more years. Once a turn each politburo member must face a health roll which can result in sickness marker or even instant death (the older, the most likely). At the end of each turn, the reigning head of state must wave to the crowd at the October parade without collapsing (which gets harder the sicker the politician is). A politician who succeeds in this three times makes the player who controls him/her the winner. The original Fata Morgana edition included rules requiring the players to hold funeral speeches for deceased party chairmen and drinking vodka with it, for instance. The later Avalon Hill edition scrapped these rules and gave the game a less satirical and more serious tone. The Jolly Roger edition provides three different KREMLIN games in one box: 1: The 'original' with fictional politicians, set in a USSR where KGB investigations send those found guilty to Siberia. This version will have victory conditions based on the original Fata Morgana rules. 2: A version inspired by the Avalon Hill variant titled 'Revolution'. Set in the 1920s, it uses historical politicians as well as fictional politicians. It's a more violent game as those arrested by the KGB are shot and removed from the game 3: A new version, set in the modern USSR and Russia, an era of entrenched bureaucracy and alternatives for escaping KGB persecution. This version introduces the concept of "Going into Exile" to avoid SIberia. It also includes modern politicians from the 1960s onwards, whether it is Kosygin or Putin and Gorbachev.

[Cordawg]

Jim I would like to play some Kremlin with u

[omegadirective]

Sign me up, Komrade!

[Jhegel]

Please sign me up for Kremlin as well! Thanks!

[miles]

I would also like to get in on Kremlin.

[tbrminsanity]

I can bring any of the following:

• Nation: a mighty spark
• Forbidden Island
• Pandemic
• 3:16 Carnage in the Stars

[PhotoJim]

Lori should be added to Kremlin too.  Thanks.

[scuudz]

I think there was enough interest in Brass this week to warrant bringing it out again next week.  So, Brass it is at 6:30.  3-4 players. 

[prairieguy]

Apparently I like suffering so I will play Brass again!