Rowan Tree and Red Thread

Last night the gang were all in place for a couple of games. First we played a quick game of Race for the Galaxy. irishkate had New Sparta, sammywol had the Damaged Alien Factory, alaimacerc had Earth's Lost Colony (I think) and I had the Doomed World.

It was a pretty quick game, with lots of settling and some developing, and I never felt I really got things moving. Too many windfall worlds, I'm afraid, even with the Galactic Engineers or whatever it was that refilled a Novelty windfall world on a Produce phase. I did manage to get Improved Logistics down and it stopped me from having an absolutely atrocious score. I still came last though.

Final scores were alaimacerc 29 (of which 6 were VP chips and 10 from a 6-pt Development), sammywol 27, irishkate 25 and mylescorcoran 25. Irishkate had more goods and cards than I did and took third place.

We then made tea and moved on to Roll Through the Ages. Disasterous in both senses for me. I should have made 'em play Apples to Apples. I scored the lowest I've ever managed and thankfully the game was swift, even though that mean that irishkate didn't get to finish her pyramid.

Final scores were: alaimacerc 16, irishkate 11, sammywol 8 and mylescorcoran 5. Five measley points! I hate frigging disasters.