Rowan Tree and Red Thread

The Sunday night boardgamers met again last night, minus irishkate who is doing Trojan work in Dublin minding kids.

We played Race for the Galaxy again, fourth time now, so the three of us had the chance to play the last of the starting worlds we hadn't yet played. alaimacerc was Epsilon Eridani, sammywol Alpha Centauri and I played Earth's Lost Colony.

It was different paced game to previous plays, with Alpha Centauri tearing through the development phases at a scary rate, which combined with a few settle phases meant the game was run out pretty quickly. sammywol ended the game with 13 cards down while I barely managed to get 10 into my tableau. Despite this I grabbed first place by a more or less accidental military strategy brought on by a couple of crucial cards (New Military Tactics and New Galactic Order) that let me bootstrap a mediocre military strength to one sufficient to conquer the Rebel Homeworld and the Rebel Outpost for plenty of end-game points.

Final scores were alaimacerc (Epsilon Eridani) 30, sammywol (Alpha Centauri) 26 and me (Earth's Lost Colony) 37.

Hah! Accidental military strategy wins!