Louis, Kevin and I kicked Saturday off with Terra Mystica. Louis was playing the Giants, I had the Halflings and Kevin the Merfolk. With only three players, it was tougher to build next to each other, but we all managed to cluster in the upper center of the board with our initial buildings. I was the first to get a town, with a Sanctuary and two trading posts. Once I got that completed, I went to work digging in the lower right of the board. Kevin had taken control of the fire and water cults, while I had my hands in air and earth. Louis had built a decent lead, but I was able to catch up. My expansion was able to challenge Kevin for largest empire, but I was one short. I thought I could keep him out of the lead in both earth and air, but ended up losing out in air anyways. That effort cost me a couple points from not building my last dwelling, and Kevin beat me by three points.
Dana, Gina and Joe joined us, and we busted out Dominion, with the Intrigue and Prosperity expansions. I was the first to buy an Expand and proceeded to use it to transform many of my Estates into Duchies, and further. My deck worked quite well, with a King’s Court providing a couple extra expansions. I managed to finish the game with three Colonies, only one of which I had actually purchased. My 41 points was enough for the win.
We followed that up with 7 Wonders. I thought I was doing well with science, picking up four compasses, four tablets and a gear, but I missed out on the clay needed to get my third wonder entry. Louis was next to me, and he was grabbing all of the Civilian cards available. He finished with 40 points just from that, and another 18 from military. He won with a solid 71 points.
Louis and Dana took off, but the rest of us stuck around for one last game of Eminent Domain. I focused heavily on military, while the rest mostly were colonizing. There was a lot of surveying as well, especially by Joe who was trying to survey and colonize as much as possible, while trashing as many cards as he could. All of their surveying helped me get a decent number of planets, so I could focus on warfare and research. I ended up with six colonized planets and a level two research card. I ended the game relatively quickly with the last survey card, so my 19 points was just enough to get the victory.
Until next time, happy gaming!
