Agitating

Last Saturday games night of the year with the Goldstone Gamers and a couple of shorter lighter games instead of one bigger one.

This time we played Airships and Maori, two conveniently small and attractively blue boxes that I wish I'd known we were playing so I didn't have to lug the bigger heavier La Citta on the bus.


Never mind, when its my turn to supply the games I like to give a bit of choice and I was happy to play any of these recent bargain purchases from "The Works"

We started with Airships and some typical complaints about randomness from the non-gamegeek lady of the house. She likes to provide a shaker for any dice used and some way into the game went to get a larger one in order to "agitate the dice more".

I still can't get my brain round why more agitation should favour higher scores but inevitably we had a sequence of high rolls after this which she felt supported her theories.



I managed a number of failures to obtain the target cards but thought I could at least equal the leader Paultro if I built the final part of the Hindenburg, after I had twice failed in this, Paultro succeeded, finishing the game and giving him a big lead. If I had taken it I would have score a respectable double-figure (17) total but as it was it pushed Paultro's score up to 25 while I languished in third (I think) on a dismal 9. The dice-bucket lady had meanwhile accumulated a reasonable 14 with a number of VPs on her improvements as well as from smaller airships.

We then moved on to Maori and my having played it before proved a distinct advantage this time it seemed. I had two completed leis, the greatest number of boats and was well furnished with island huts for a total in the 60s. The others were nowhere near but they had learned from this initial game and the second game was much closer. In fact I was very surprised to learn that I had won it...by a single point.


Another very enjoyable games night and one with the huge advantage of coming with lots of wonderful home cooked food. I look forward to the restart of Saturday gaming in the New Year.