The Green Goblin Blog

Back row: Sue Breakwell (6th), John Breakwell (4th), Andrew (2nd), GM, Dave (5th).

Front row: Winner, GM, Andy (3rd).

Games played:

Day 1

• Roborally (6 player)
• Pirates of the Spanish Main (6 player)
  The following three were played in parallel and everybody played each game once
  • Balloon Cup (2 player)
  • Lost Cities (2 player)
  • Odin's Ravens (2 player)

Day 2

• Medici (6 player)
• Ticket to Ride (2 tables of 4 players - GM as 4th player)
• Carcassonne (6 player)
• Saving Doctor Lucky (non-competition game)

Roborally is hard work although the mechanics are simple. You program a robot with 5 move instructions (forwards, backwards, rotate left/right) based on cards in your hand. There are conveyor belts and rotating areas on the board to add some complexity. Also, the other players' robots will bump into you too. And there are lasers. Mustn't forget the lasers. Oh, I'm dead (1st life gone). I seem to have also forgotten that I am on a rotating area and so program my robot off the map. (2nd life gone). Did I say not to forget to the lasers? (3rd and last life gone).

Pirates of the Spanish Main is a collectable game where you punch out pieces from plastic cards and build your ships. Being a US manufacturer with a large US market, there are American ships in the game even though the British still ruled that colony at the time the game is set. Who cares about history when there's money to be made? Anyway, in our game the object was to search out as much buried gold as possible in the time allowed and get it back to your home island. I decided that an alternative approach was to ensure you were last-man-afloat. Tragically this tactic, although heroic and daring, resulted in a fleet of derelict ships...

Labels: Sheffield, Student Nationals

# posted by John Breakwell @ 2:41 PM