MONTHLY MEETINGS

Beginning in 2009, regular Society meetings will be on the third Saturday of each month at 11:00am at Valhalla's Gate Game Store. You are encouraged to bring any game you would be willing to teach to others. The game or games played will be decided at the start of the meeting.

Next Meeting: July 18, 2009. Charlie will lead and teach the Avalon Hill classic "Kingmaker".

THURSDAY NIGHTS AT THE 'GATE

Thursday nights from 6:00-9:00pm at Valhalla's are MMSGS Game Nights, where we can knock off quick battles in games like "Memoir '44", "Commands & Colors: Ancients", "Tide of Iron", "Colosseum", "War at Sea", "St. Petersburg", "Princes of Florence", "Carcassone", "Settlers of Catan", or any other game that can be played in a short period of time.

The first Game Night of each month will feature a tournament with typically more than one session devoted to the same game in order to determine an overall winner. Featured games may either be multi-player games or two-player games where multiple sessions of the same game are played side-by-side. Players not wanting to play in the tournament are welcome to attend and play other games as desired.

Next Meeting: July 2, 2009: Games TBD. Players should bring games they would like to play.

UPCOMING SPECIAL MEETINGS

July 11, 2009 at the Columbia library, starting at 9:00am. Another session of "Here I Stand" is planned.

AFTER-ACTION REPORTS: MONTHLY MEETINGS

June 20, 2009. Seth was the victor in "Containers" over Charlie, Chris and Dana.

May 16, 2009 at Valhalla's Gate: Mark, Andrew and James had a 3-player game of "Small World" (mistakenly on a 2-player board), while Ryan, Dean and two other players had a 4-player game of it at another table.

April 18, 2009: Charlie, Mark and Glen played "Rail Baron". The game had to be ended early, but at that point Charlie had the largest player treasury.

AFTER-ACTION REPORTS: GAME NIGHTS

June 25, 2009: Dana was to have brought "Caylus". More information will be posted when available.

June 18, 2009: This was a learning game for "Goa"; three games were played in parallel. Winners were Billy (43 VPs), Andrew (46 VPs) and Tricia (29 VPs). Other players were James, Dana, Chris, Caleb, Emily, Rusty and Charlie.

June 11, 2009: Robert S was the winner in a game of "Agricola"; other players were Tricia, Dana, Ryan and Sean. Andrew was the runaway winner in "Stone Age" over James, Mark and Nathan.

June 4, 2009: This was the third and final game night for the "Puerto Rico" tournament. 14 players were present, and three games were played in parallel. Damien, Dana and Andrew were the winners of their individual games. Dana was the tournament winner based on the best total score over the three playing sessions in the tournament, squeaking in ahead of Mark by scoring a 5-point large building bonus on the final play of the game.

AFTER-ACTION REPORTS: SPECIAL MEETINGS

June 13, 2009 at Valhalla's: Robert C edged Mark V to win at "Talisman"; other players were Dana, Rusty, Mark R, Patrick and Walt.

June 6, 2009 at the Columbia library: This was a 6-player game of "Axis & Allies Anniversary Edition". More information will be posted when available.

May 2, 2009 at the Columbia library: Charlie defeated Mark and Tim in "Silverton"; the key play was a single $3500 delivery of gold to Denver. Dana, Rusty and Craig as the Horde Faction defeated Chris, Jonathan and Walt as the Alliance Faction in "World of Warcraft".