Rowan Tree and Red Thread

We had alaimacerc over last night and played a game of Trias, the game of the breakup of Pangea and cute little wooden dinosaurs.

It was a while since our last game so the re-read of the rules was a little slow. We managed to get started without too much confusion (or no more than usual at least) and soon had Pangea flying apart into six or seven land masses of various sizes. alaimacerc seemed to have the advantage early on, scoring most of the points for separating new continents.

Once all the land masses had separated from the South Pole continent we were a little unsure as to whether we'd have any more scoring from continent formation, but that sorted we cruised into the final phase of the game soon enough, with a lot of jockeying for dominance on the larger continents. I'm not sure if there's much to be done once that phase starts. It seemed to me that for the most part each continent stayed pretty much in the hands (claws) of the player who got early position.

The comet came about half-way between through the phase 2 deck and we scored up the continents. Final scores were sammywol 24, mylescorcoran 24 and alaimacerc 19. sammywol took the win on the tiebreak with more herds in hand than I had. Pretty close game.

Next time I must remember to print out an underlay with a hex grid on it though, to stop landmasses slipping willy nilly.