Rowan Tree and Red Thread

Yay! My new games arrived. I've now got Dominion, Tempus, Incan Gold and Battle Line sitting on a tottering pile in the living room beside the stereo. Looking good, and I got a chance to play Dominion last night with sammywol and irishkate.

There was a fair amount of setting up and familiarising ourselves with the cards, but we picked it up pretty quickly. It took longer than expected as I missed the set-up rule about only including 12 each of the Estates, Duchies and Provinces. It would have ended a little sooner I suspect if we'd had the right numbers of cards.

I think irishkate did very nicely with the strategy we called "It's Takes A Village (or Three)" and turned some very nice combo hands with villages and smithies or markets to her advantage. We all enjoyed it I think and are looking forward to trying out the other kingdom cards. alaimacerc is hereby under orders to read the card descriptions before settling down to play; so says Kate!

The final scores were irishkate 48, mylescorcoran 42 and sammywol 37.