MONTHLY MEETINGS

The monthly weekend Society meetings are on the third Sunday of each month at 12:30 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 regular meeting: March 21, 2010.

THURSDAY NIGHTS AT THE 'GATE

Thursday nights from 6:00-9:00pm at Valhalla's are MMSGS Game Nights, where we can play games like "Puerto Rico", "Ticket to Ride", "Goa", "St. Petersburg", "Princes of Florence", "Carcassonne", "Settlers of Catan", or any other game that can be completed in the three hours available before the store closing.

Next meeting: March 11, 2010.

UPCOMING SPECIAL MEETINGS

April 3, 2010 at the Columbia library, starting at 9:00am. The game to be played is "Imperial".

AFTER-ACTION REPORTS: MONTHLY MEETINGS

February 21, 2010: Adam McK was the runaway winner in "St. Petersburg" over Charlie and Mark, following this with another runaway win in "Metro" over the same two opponents. Tim and Dana played "Axis and Allies" but the game had to be suspended before a winner could be decided.

January 17, 2010: (No game.)

December 20, 2009. Charlie defeated Mark in a 2-player game of "Silverton", the Colorado rail and mining game.

November 21, 2009: "Wealth of Nations" was played; Dana was the runaway winner with 125 VPs over Walt with 82 and Mark with 42.

AFTER-ACTION REPORTS: GAME NIGHTS

March 4, 2010: This was the first tournament night for "Agricola". Three games were played, with a total of nine players. The winners were Adam, Tricia and Robert S.

February 25, 2010: Faith was the winner of "Puerto Rico", scoring 53 VPs to defeat Angela, Will, and Dana, respectively.

February 18, 2010: Charlie was the winner of a game of "Puerto Rico" by tie-break over Tim; each scored 62 VPs. Other players were Will, Mark and Seth P. Faith won a game of "Alchemist" over Dana, Kathleen, Tricia and Sarah. In a second game of "Alchemist" Dana was the winner; other players were Faith, Kathleen, Mark and Tricia. Robert S defeated Craig in the Raphia 217 BC scenario of "Command and Colors: Ancients" by 8 flags to 5. A second game was played between the two, but the result has not been received.

February 11, 2010: Dana was the winner of a 5-player game of "Power Grid" by tie-break over Craig; other players were Charlie, Stefan and Angela. Tim, Robert S and Will played two games of "Puerto Rico"; Tim was the winner of the first game and Will won the second.

AFTER-ACTION REPORTS: SPECIAL MEETINGS

February 6, 2010 at the Columbia library. This was a four-player session of the railroad and stock market game "1870". The game was terminated early just as 5 trains were about to come out, due to one player needing to respond to an emergency. At that point Adam McK was leading over Dana by $1434 to $1230; other players were Charlie and Glen.

December 13, 2009 at Valhalla's Gate: Angela was the winner of "Masters of Venice" with 16 VPs, just edging out Adam who had 15. Other players were Tricia, Mark and Charlie. Walt, Rusty, Sarah and Blake played "Gates of Loyang" (no information about the outcome of the game has been received).

December 5, 2009 at the Columbia library: Another session of "Here I Stand" was played. Glen was the winner as the Papacy with 23 VPs, followed by Charlie as the Protestants with 22 VPs and Phil as the Ottomans with 21 VPs. Other players were Mark, Robert S and Robert C.