2023 Session Reports

12/27/2023 – Berkshire Gamers Session Report #23-52

Greetings from Charlotte, NC
The session report below was written by Sean
I attended the Fredericksburg Game Guild in VA on the same night.
4 tables of gamers (16 in all) at Wegman’s Market Cafe
I got to lead Junk Drawer, Tiger & Dragon and Parkade
I was taught Forest Shuffle (a tableau builder with drafting)
Pretty please – communicate your attendance and requests directly to Sean
Steve
11 at the UNO Park Community Center and 4 players in train solidarity at a satellite location (Wendy’s mom and Sean’s parents played TtR with Wendy at home) for Train Games night.
Our first session of 2024 on January 3rd will be “Something New” night. led by Sean. Do you have a new game you got as a gift for the holidays?  Or just something new that arrived from a Kickstarter or a game that you bought and haven’t had a chance to play yet?  Break the shrink wrap, punch out those pieces, learn those rules, and bring it to game night to teach us! Kindly let Sean know what games you would like to bring and lead.

Kindly RSVP your attendance status to Sean as Sandy and Steve are spending New Year’s Eve in North Carolina, on their way to visit their relatives in Florida.  Hopefully you’ve enjoyed your holidays. May the New Year bring you good health, good fortune, and happiness! The Berkshire Gamers have had a wonderful 2023 and we will send out some final stats for our year of gaming in the next few weeks.

12/27/2023 at UNO Park Community Center
 
IN: Sean, Emmet, Quinn, Edward, Tony, Eric, Libby, Mike, Rob, Matt, and Christopher.
SATELLITE: Wendy, Lana, Alice, Joe
 
ON OUR TABLES:
Pioneer Rails (led by Sean)  2023 flip-and-write game using a cut down deck of poker cards (10-A in each suit) to build a poker hand and extend your rail empire across the new lands of the frontier, connecting various establishments to your rail network while trying to satisfy the demands of the locals. Played 9 at once without issue.
Ticket to Ride with Map Collection 61/2: Poland (led by Tony) This 2019 expansion to the classic Ticket to Ride challenges players to create connections between Poland’s neighboring countries, such as Germany, Ukraine, and the Czech Republic. The extra rules (beyond those of the base game) allow you to draw point cards from country stacks each time that you create a connection between neighboring countries.
Alubari: A Nice Cup of Tea (led by Quinn/Sean) Tony Boydell’s 2019 worker placement game of building the Darjeeling and Himalayan Railway from Siliguri Town to the summit at Ghum reimplements the systems used in his 2012 game Snowdonia. Players place their laborers to collect and convert resources, build rail lines and improve the towns along the rail route, while competing to cultivate and harvest their own tea estates. Use harvested tea to make Chai for your thirsty workers and boost their actions.
Station Master (led by Edward) This 2004 Mayfair Games card game has players competing to attempt to influence the value of trains preparing to depart the station by assigning passengers and carriages in an effort to get the trains to depart on time and accumulate the most points. A revised version was published in 2020 by Calliope Games, with full color art and some updates to the rules which the designer says add extra thought and strategy to the game
Ticket to Ride (led by Wendy) This 2004 multi award winning game of set collection and route building is probably Alan Moon’s most widely known design, and a mainstay in game collections everywhere. Players collect cards of various types of train cars they then use to claim railway routes in North America. The longer the routes, the more points they earn. Additional points come to those who fulfill Tickets – goal cards that connect distant cities; and to the player who builds the longest continuous route.
Fantasy Realms 3x (+?) (led by Rob/Christopher/Sean) A quick 2017 card game of making the best hand you can by making the best card combinations in a 7 card hand, with a fantasy theme (not trains!). The gameplay is dead simple: draw a card and discard a card (though you can draw blindly from the deck, or take any card in the discard area). The game ends once there are 10 cards in the discard area, then you score your hand.

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~Skells

Greetings from Charlotte, NC The session report below was written by Sean I attended the Fredericksburg Game Guild in VA on the same night. 4 tables of gamers (16 in all) at Wegman’s Market Cafe I got to lead Junk Drawer, Tiger & Dragon and Parkade I was taught Forest Shuffle (a tableau builder with drafting)…

Greetings from Charlotte, NC The session report below was written by Sean I attended the Fredericksburg Game Guild in VA on the same night. 4 tables of gamers (16 in all) at Wegman’s Market Cafe I got to lead Junk Drawer, Tiger & Dragon and Parkade I was taught Forest Shuffle (a tableau builder with drafting)…

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