Harrowed Halls

This week we continued our Twilight Imperium game. I slowly retook what the Green Virus (Ben) had stolen from me. Then I returned the favor and took one of Ben’s planets. (I needed it for my special objective.) Mike, playing Blue, sensed a victory point and brought his armada over and wiped me out. Owen built ships and took a few planets. He even attacked Mike. Still, I think Owen is waiting for just the right moment to reign chaos all over the universe. And by this, I DO NOT mean by attacking Yellow (me).

If Mike, the current point leader, doesn’t start losing some planets soon, he’ll be unstoppable.

Chaos Steve

A picture of the board at the end of the session:

We started a Twilight Imperium III game last night. We expect to be through it in about 6 weeks.

Some of the highlights:

Ben is a virus. Coincidentally so is the race he’s playing in TI3. He’s attacked both Mike and I. He’s doing it so his race can copy our technologies. I think we’ll attack him back because we want to.

The dice have been rolling pretty well for me, which is unusual. I expect that to end very soon. I’ve also been lucky on the random counters that are place on planets. So far all have been good. Speaking of planets, my home world is surrounded with them. That’s another good thing. I’ve also been able to grab an artifact for a victory point. (I think Owen is eyeing it though.) Ben the Virus has been my only real issue. But not for long.

Mike has been steadily building troops, grabbing planets, and claiming victory points. Unless Ben the Virus or Owen do something soon, he’ll be too powerful to stop. I believe he currently has the most victory points. On the upside, he does have an armada heading for Ben the Virus’ home world.

Owen got crappy worlds to start with. Then he’s had crappy luck with taking over planets. His dice rolling has also been horrendously bad. All this has led to some slow grow for Owen, but he’s building momentum now. I see him becoming a problem for the peace-loving race to his left (me). One thing I have learned is to never count Owen out of the game…unless he attacks his peace-loving neighbor to the left.

(Last picture is the final shot before we stopped for the night.)