Welcome to the March Newsletter!

A couple of favorite games were played in February. Greg reports on the Titan game of 2/15:

To jump start the game, it was decided that each player would be given 3 of each base creature (i.e. centaur, gargoyle, and ogre) instead of the usual 2, and of course a titan and an angel. You started in randomly determined tower hexes with any number of legal stacks with a limit of no more than one lord per stack. This "twist" provided some war-bears and minotaurs very early in the game. (On a personal note, I recommend trying it as an alternate, it was quite interesting.) There were four players that participated, Mike, Nate, Greg, and Joe. By luck of the draw Mike, Nate, and Joe started in adjacent tower hexes, while Greg started with a buffer tower on either side. The first hour passed with little to note, except better-than-usual recruiting due to the "modified" starting rule. The excitement began with Mike recruiting a giant in the Tundra and dropping down onto Greg's side of the board. The very next move sent a 7-stack of Greg's against Mike's 6-stack titan. Due to timing and dumb luck Greg was unable to "summon" an angel and the battle resulted in total annihilation for both sides. Greg did not get points for Mikes titan stack, but did get roughly 90 points for the remained of Mike's units. The game went on for a couple more hours with each side roughly even. Then Nate jumped Joe's titan stack (presumably without prior knowledge), and managed to weaken the stack to the titan and a troll. This appeared to be the end of Joe, but the next few turns allowed him to move his titan out of danger and do some recruiting. Joe then reciprocated by jumping Nate's titan stack and weakening it significantly. At that point Nate and Joe's combined forces were about an even match for Greg, and both Nate and Joe had a known and vulnerable titan stack. The game was called at about 10PM declaring Greg the king of titan land.

The location of the Risk tournament is TBD; both our normal location (Bldg 33 cafeteria) and usual backup location (Bldg 33, rm 201) are unavailable. Mike is looking for an alternate backup location. Also, Mike is suggesting History of the World as a possible alternative to the Risk Tournament (depending on people’s moods on March 29^th). He is sponsoring History of the World on March 15^th as a practice session.

Check out Greg’s Top Ten List of Favorite Games in the Games Review Section. I will publish people’s top ten lists in the order I receive them. In coming months, I will also review several games that I played for the first time at the Fantasy Shop Games Day. I recommend Games Day as an excellent opportunity to test drive games you’ve never played, or even heard of, before.

Email me if you’d like to sponsor a game. The next available meeting date is May 10^th.

Since this is the club newsletter, please feel free to email me any contributions you may have. In particular, web links for Link of the Month, game reviews or any game you’d like added to the Wish List.

Eric Kline,

Adventure Game Club President

233-6189

NOTE: All meetings are held in the Bldg 33 Cafeteria unless otherwise posted. Meetings start at 5:00 pm; games will start no later than 5:15 pm. You are still welcome to come after that and we will try to work you into the game if at all possible, but you’ll have to figure out the rules as we go.

Games On Deck: Mar 1^st Wings of War (plays 2-8. Sponsor: Nate Fawer)

Mar 15^th History of the World (plays 2-6. Sponsor: Mike Guntly)

Mar 29^th Risk Tournament (plays 3+. Sponsor: BAGC)

Apr 12^th Parthenon: Rise of the Aegean (plays 3-6. Sponsor: Joe Hagar)

Apr 26^th Tigris&Euphrates (plays 3-4. Sponsor: Nate Fawer)

May 10^th Open

May 24^th TBD (plays TBD. Sponsor: Paul Oberlin)

Jun 7^th Open

Jun 21^st BattleTech practice (plays 2+. Sponsor: BAGC)

Jun 28^th BattleTech Tournament (plays 3+. Sponsor: BAGC)

Paul’s RPG thang:

Next RPG meeting is Saturday, Feb 24^th for some Star Wars d20. There are no meetings planned at this time for March or April. Anyone interested in RPG activities should contact Paul Oberlin.

Less lame DISCLAIMER: The RPG group is not *officially* associated with the BAGC.

Mark’s calendar of Fantasy Shop events:

Comic Book back issue Sale Feb 23^rd-25^th

Used Gaming Auction - March 23rd, 24th, and 25th. Items will be accepted from March 15th to March 20th at all 6 locations.

March 23rd - Games Workshop (minis and terrain)

March 24th - Fantasy Role Playing (including minis)

March 25th - Everything else (board games, non fantasy role-playing games, card games, miniatures, etc…)

Game Day 10 - April 14th, 2007

The Blurbs:

Wings of War: Wings Of War is a game of aerial combat in world war one. The aircraft are small cards with a top view of the airplane. Each aircraft has a deck of cards with each card representing a maneuver that the aircraft is capable of. The maneuver card is placed in front of the aircraft card and then the tail of the aircraft card is placed as indicated by the maneuver card. Arcs of fire are indicated on the aircraft card as well as damage ratings.

Nate has maneuver decks to support eight players. Depending on table sizes available and number of participants, we will play either a balloon busting scenario or just a free for all furball.

History of the World: History of the World (HotW) can be played by 2-6 players, but plays better with at least 4 players. HotW works under the assumption that all empires eventually fade and that the only things differentiating great empires from lesser ones is how much territory they conquer and how long it takes for their civilizations to disappear. To that end, the game is played in epochs, with every player handling a new empire during each; yes, some empires will be stronger than others, but a few clever mechanisms largely balance that out. At the end of each player's turn during an epoch, that player scores points for all their forces (from the current and previous empires) remaining on the board.

Review of the Month: Top Ten List,

Greg’s Top Ten List of Favorite Games

1) Puerto Rico

2) Settlers of Catan (with Seafarers and Knight and Cities expansions)

3) Axis & Allies

4) Bohnanza

5) Titan

6) Battle Tech

7) Acquire

8) Samurai

9) Munchkin

10) Illuminati