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Midweek Update – 4th April 2017

Posted on April 5, 2017 by Tim Porter

Good crowd last night in Newbury Park with 26. Alex made his first appearance at Greg’s, and Ben rejoined us after a stint in South Korea. Carl brought along Flamme Rouge, which was fun. Serge Clanked, twice. Baker Josh mucked up the rebels plans with the timely nabbing of the Corcuscant card.

Games played included: Great Western Trail, Keyflower, Unfair, Oracle of Delphi, Star Wars Rebellion, Concordia, Pandemic Iberia, Manhattan Project, Coup x4, Fuse x3, Clank! X2, and Flamme Rouge x2.

Note that next week we have a change to our normal schedule: Greg is hosting on Monday, and Ted is hosting on Tuesday.

VCSB 4th April 2017 — Games played at the VCSB meetup 4th April 2017

2Capture — Games played at the VCSB meetup 4th April 2017

A local-ish (Santa Barbara county) gamer friend of mine, Jerry White, is interviewed about his upcoming solitaire game on the Doolittle Raid. The interview is on The Players Aid site.

TableTop DOG is fast approaching… I am plotting some type of competition… hee hee

Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, and Table Top Day 2017

Posted on March 30, 2017March 30, 2017 by Tim Porter

The VCSB meetup on the 11th of April has been moved to Ted’s. We will have the usual limit of 24 at Ted’s. People will need to bring chairs, and park up the hill etc.

As a bonus, Greg will host on the Monday before i.e. April the 10th. Greg and Sudro are plotting a game of Britannia for that Monday.

On Tuesday we had a smaller group than normal in Newbury Park with 21 attendees. Even so, a wide selection of games were played, including three games of Battlestar Galactica. Liz was a cylon in all three games. David M was the victor in all three games.

VCSB 28th March 2017

Games played on Tuesday included: Britannia, Acquire, Russian Railroads, Great Western Trail, Wizard, Stone Age, Qwixx x4, Ticket To Ride, Red 7 x2, Trans Europa, and Battlestar Galactica x3.

Last night was Wednesdays at Carrows. This meetup is going from strength to strength with attendances around the mid teens. Thanks to Matthew and April-Lyn for the info and pictures.

Games played: Great Western Trail, Chaosmos, High Frontier, First Class, Burgle Bros., Blood of an Englishman, The King is Dead and Crisis.

Burgle Bros

High Frontier

The King is Dead

Burgle Bros

Table Top Day is a month away on April the 29th, we are planning a bigger and better Table Top DOG than last year. This will be the 4th year that we have organized an event. This year we will be back in Oxnard, we lots of space for all types of games, and gamers. Stay tuned for special events on the day.

Please RSVP if you want to attend, here is a link to Table Top DOG 2017 on the VCSB meetup group. There is also an event on the official TableTopDay website.

To give an idea of the shenanigans of Table Top Day. Here are some montages from last years Table Top DOG 2016.

Tuesday Night in Newbury Park – 14th March 2017

Posted on March 15, 2017 by Tim Porter

Games played last night included: Clank!, Star Wars Rebellion, The Pursuit of Happiness, A Feast for Odin, Anarchrony, Ora Et Labora, Star Realms, Unfair, Mystic Vale x2, Hero Realms, and Love Letter Archer.

Attendance is now hovering around 25-30 on Tuesday nights, down from a regular figure of 30-35. After the expected seasonal drop just before Christmas, the numbers have not picked back up. This concerns me a little.

perplexed
Tim

Mid-March Update

Posted on March 14, 2017 by Tim Porter

As part of an ongoing process I have started to collate my list of useful game links.

While looking for some other photos, I found a bunch from the special one-day events that I help to organize back in 2012. A a tease here is a montage for our first FATDOG event. The full article can be found here.

As part of my ongoing goal of increasing the number of gamers, and game groups, who log their game plays. I had added a thread to BGG with a few polls. From that feedback it looks like lots of people are logging their games played. There are many detractors, yet so far I have only convinced 1 (one) gamer to start logging. Success!

Tim – 14th March 2017