{"id":3896,"date":"2014-12-18T10:50:21","date_gmt":"2014-12-18T15:50:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.harrowedhalls.com\/wordpress\/?p=3896"},"modified":"2014-12-18T10:50:41","modified_gmt":"2014-12-18T15:50:41","slug":"roll-thru-the-ages-splendor-damage-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.harrowedhalls.com\/wordpress\/?p=3896","title":{"rendered":"Roll thru the Ages, Splendor, Damage Report"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nHey! We played some games this week! In an amazing coincidence we all arrived at Owen\u2019s house very early. Mike was the last to arrive and that let the rest of us play a couple games of Roll Through the Ages<\/em>. I think Ben won one and Owen won one. I was last both times. The dice hate me.<\/p>\n

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\nOnce Mike arrived we played Splendor<\/em>. Ben has played this game many times. The rest of us had never played it, so we looked to Ben for strategy tips\u2026and then we did the opposite. (Note: it\u2019s a well proven fact that Ben never follows his own advice either.)<\/p>\n

The rules for Splendor<\/em> are simple. Each round you can take some gems, in the form of chips, or you can buy a card using your chips, or reserve <\/em>a card so you can build it later. Most cards have victory points and that\u2019s how you win the game. The first to 15 is declared the Supreme Poobah or something like that. There are also some special cards that earn you prestige points. These are just like victory points only you add the word \u201cprestige\u201d in front of it to make them sound special.<\/p>\n

The first game Ben hoover-ed up all of the cheap cards, so later he could buy expensive cards. I didn\u2019t mention this before, but you can use the cards you buy with chips to later help buy other cards. This was a winning strategy for Ben\u2026who won\u2026by a lot.<\/p>\n

The second game went quite differently. Ben waffled on his strategy which caused him no end of distress and long turns. Mike went for HIGH value cards and this nearly won him the game. He may refine this strategy in the future. I used Ben\u2019s strategy from the first game and ended up winning\u2026just barely. Both Owen and Mike were right on the cusp of being able to win as well.<\/p>\n

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\nOur last game was Damaged Report<\/em>. Everyone but Mike had played this a couple times before. We lost terribly both those times. This game is a literal race against time. Aliens are trying to destroy your ship and you\u2019re trying to either repair the warp engines and get the heck out of dodge, or repair the laser and blow the aliens sky high. All the while you\u2019re taking damage from those pesky aliens.<\/p>\n

The first game we one is about 2 minutes. That\u2019s because we cheated. That\u2019s because Ben told us we could.<\/p>\n

The next game was a little harder.<\/p>\n

Just like in so many movies the robot\/synthetic\/android (known as Ben) nearly killed us all by delivering the wrong part at a crucial moment. \u201cI\u2019m color blind\u201d was his reason for bringing the wielding torch instead of the wrench. \u201cMr. Robot was killed in the laser room with the wielding torch.\u201d That\u2019s what we were thinking.<\/p>\n

We recovered though and won, literally, by seconds. We blew those aliens to kingdom come.<\/p>\n

Chaos Steve<\/p>\n

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