MONTHLY MEETINGS

The monthly weekend Society meetings are being moved to 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: February 21, 2010. Game TBD.

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: February 11, 2010.

UPCOMING SPECIAL MEETINGS

March 6, 2010 at the Columbia library, starting at 9:00am. The game to be played is TBD.

AFTER-ACTION REPORTS: MONTHLY MEETINGS

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

February 4, 2010: Two games of "Agricola" were played. In one game, Angela was the winner with 40 VPs; other players were Dana, Tricia and Kathleen. In the second game Robert S, Craig and Stefan finished in a three-way tie with 28 VPs; Charlie had 19.

January 28, 2010: Two games of "Puerto Rico" were played. In one game, Angela was the winner with 40 VPs; other players were Robert S, Dana, Brian and Will. In the other game, Charlie won a close game with 57 VPs over Tricia with 54; other players were Faith, Kathleen and Ryan.

January 21, 2010: There were two games of "Carson City". In the first, Dan won a very close game with 31 VPs over Adam with 30; other players were Kevin, Mark and Nathan. In the second game Robert S was the winner over Rusty, Sean, Walt and Faith. Dana, Tricia, Kathleen and Charlie played two games of "Ticket to Ride" with the 1910 expansion; Tricia was the run-away winner of the first game, while Dana won the second game.

January 14, 2010: Four players played "Colosseum"; Will was the winner with 66 points ahead of Robert S with 64, Sean with 60 and Mark with 40. Seth won a game of "El Grande", finishing ahead of Isaiah, Kathleen, Tricia and Stefan.

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.

January 9, 2010 at the Columbia library. This gaming session was cancelled due to severe winter weather.

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.