01/24/2024 – Berkshire Gamers Session Report #24-04
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18 at the UNO Park Community Center for Expansion/Sequel Night
Tiny Towns with Villagers expansion
(led by Nicole) 2020 adds lodge boards, villager meeples, more building cards, more Monument cards and Villager cards
Quacks of Quedlinburg with Herb Witches Expansion
(led by Tony) 2019, adds fifth player, new recipes, Locoweed (new ingredient) and the Witches with special 1-time use abilities.
Fantastic Factories with Manufactions expansion
(led by Reimi) 2021 adds new blueprints, contractors, vitamin resources, and corporate factions that grant players unique powers.
Villagers with Shifting Seasons expansion
(led by Sean) 2022 adds enough new cards and official rules for games to last an extra round on average, allowing players to build even bigger and better villages. Event cards offer new actions and scoring opportunities for all players. Powerful new Special villagers like the Engineer, Inventor, and Merchant offer rule-bending abilities.
Take It Easy with Sun-rays & Moonbeams Variant
(led by Sandy) multilingual 2016 edition (as well as the numbered Daffodil Edition) add sun-rays and moonbeams to the tiles for additional scoring…. or to make your brain implode
Ticket to Ride: Marklin Edition
(led by Drew) 2006 stand-alone on a map of Germany and each individual card in the deck depicts a different Märklin Trains model. A new mechanic is also introduced in the form of passengers and merchandise tokens. A series of merchandise values worth victory points are placed on nominated cities during the game’s set-up. The values of these tokens diminish when multiple tokens are present within a single city, requiring players to move quickly to capture the higher valued tokens.
Carcassonne: Hunters & Gatherers
(led by Chris W) 2002 stand-alone set in the stone age. Instead of cities, roads, and farms, it has forests, rivers, lakes, and meadows. Players’ meeples can represent hunters (when placed in the meadows), gatherers (in a forest), or fishermen (on a river segment). They also have huts, which can be placed on rivers or lakes to get fish from the entire river system.
(led by Ethan) 2019 stand-alone (and my favorite of the Azul family) where tiles are drafted, pavilions in 6 colors plus a central multi-colored one are constructed, with scoring bonuses earned for completing each color and a few other categories. One building type is wild in each of the 6 turns.
18 at the UNO Park Community Center for Expansion/Sequel Night Welcome to Russ and Swan on their first visit Russ was the organizer of the Sunday Berkshire Tabletop Gamers group that met in a North Adam home back from 2012-2018 and we are excited that he is resuming organized gaming. Before our session began, we…
18 at the UNO Park Community Center for Expansion/Sequel Night Welcome to Russ and Swan on their first visit Russ was the organizer of the Sunday Berkshire Tabletop Gamers group that met in a North Adam home back from 2012-2018 and we are excited that he is resuming organized gaming. Before our session began, we…