OTK 7 Nov 08
Ξ November 9th, 2008 | → | ∇ Boardgames |
Another good session last night (when was it ever bad?) that saw the return of a familiar face and a plethora of new games.
I arrived at OTK at 7.30pm to find the long lost Datuk Lostboyz waiting. Really good to see a familiar face as we launched into a range to topics like the current economy and geek stuff like Fallout 3.
It was 8.30pm before our great and august organiser jack208 arrived with his bag of goodies from Australia. Some hard to find titles and bargains were purchased from Aussie to help bolster the range of boardgaming options in Cheras.
Shortly after, waiyan, isabel, blownfreaks and wife joined us to start a new game. blownfreaks brought his brand new Chinatown and proceeded to teach us. Very simple euro, the trading aspect is like the full out chaos of Wealth of Nations. The returns on the trading items follows an increasing scale depending on the completeness of the set collection. There is also a spatial aspect in that the set collected have to be place on the board adjacent to each other to have the full on effect.
Overall a straightforward game and lots of laughter were heard as blownfreaks & wife, isabel, waiyan and lostboyz barter furiously with each other while jack208 watched on.
Meanwhile on the other table, patomas, wonglc and wolfx arrived to join me in a game of Taluva. Now this goodie set belonged to wolfx and it is still fun to play. Lots of brain burning and analysis abound as wonglc and patomas tried to make sense of the subtle devious moves by veterans wolfx and myself.
We played two games of this and while myself took the first game from under wolfx, patomas won the second one as wolfx and myself were busy throwing a !hut! into each other’s plans. Crazy cool components, lostboyz even commented that the tiles are thick enough to be thrown as shurikens.
While the other table winded down and left jack208, blownwfreaks & wife to get through a grueling time In The Year of The Dragon, patomas, wolfx, wonglc and myself continued on with Chinatown. This time, there was less laughter and more serious faces as the players tried to out-trade one another through mathematical analysis. wolfx won the game with double the cash of the nearest competitor and earn the title of the richest chinky in Chinatown.
As i left with Hamburgum to decipher the rules for the next gaming session, blownfreaks & wife, jack208, wonglc, wolfx and patomas soldier on into the night with round #2 of gaming.
