Fresh from my kekloss outings I returned to prepare for games night and for once it was just the three regular blokes. Nevertheless we still decided on yet another go at Stefan Feld's gem Trajan. After two victories in a row, this time, perhaps distracted by the thought of having bought someone else some trousers I slipped back into second place and stayed there. Not too bad a score I think but on this occasion the Professor, having spent a week analysing aspects of the game, got into his stride and disappeared into a distant part of the score track.I thoroughly enjoyed it again though and tried yet another different strategy, this time focussing more on shipping and far less on military conquest and building. After all that temple-knuckling, brow-furrowing thoughtyness we fancied something lighter as our second game and ended up playing Deadwood. I was delighted to give this another outing as western is a theme I love and I had played it recently enough to remember how to play it. In any case it doesn't have a complex rule set although one does have to learn the "powers" of quite a few buildings.
In the end it seems I may have won this one on a recount after a technical infringement, although the original result (another win for the Prof.) was in some ways more satisfying as it had involved a shoot-out to decide the outcome of a drawn game. [I felt a sort of tugging sensation there as some subconscious demon tried to get me to come up with some dreadful "fastest draw" type wordplay.]Anyhow a quick, colourful little game and as ProfMudlark realised that he hadn't been paying the sheriff (Crabro) his dues and victory is decided on money, it would seem that I should have been the victor. Yay me!
A very satisfying, enjoyable and harmonious evening's gaming to temporarily stop my kicking myself over trouser-mislaying antics.
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