Mike and I are back from Origins, so this week we finished the Le Havre game we started the week before Origins. At the end of the first half of the game we thought Owen would be a shoe in for the win. Things change.
It was obvious from the beginning that many of us had no clue what our overarching plans where for the game. I think most of us didn’t have a plan. Mike and I floundered with indecision and Ben waffled between doing thing one or doing thing two. (There’s a joke there someplace.) Owen lamented his decisions from the beginning of the game saying that next time he’ll try a different strategy. Heck, I’m impressed someone had a strategy.
Ben tried many of his schemes for cheating. I think we caught most of them. (He tried methods #7, #26, and #42 as found in his book, “Winning through Obscurationâ€.) As the game played out, Mike gained some momentum. I managed to stay one building ahead of Ben which caused him to have to wait for resources or at least choose something different. This really didn’t seem to hurt Ben much. Owen flat lined somewhere towards the end of the game. Spinning his wheels, he seemed to have lost all of the momentum built up during the first half of the game.
As the points were tallied, I was surprised to find that I did better than I thought. Ben won with 162 points; Mike came in second with the help of a last action build of a Luxury Liner for 38 points that gave him a total of 148. I was third with 136 and poor Owen came in last with 125. With my cry of “I’m not last!†still ringing in our ears, we adjourned until next time.
Chaos Steve