Le Havre | BoardGameGeek

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Ready to begin- first look at the food owed at the end of the round

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The Wharf is so far down seems like rounds away.

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My first boat!

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My loans

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The Wheat and Clay pile

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My favorite card Shipping Line - often last visted by all players.

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The line up

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The Wood pile

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The Fisheys

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The cows and meat

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Iron/Steel pile

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ALL the goods

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The leather and Hides

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The $$

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Football stadium

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Sad that I am working today when so many have the day off and are playing board games.

It is okay since there is always Monday night games!

Last Monday we started the gaming off with a fast game of Coloretto. I love color and have wanted to try this game for a while since well it is all about colors!

The first thing Eric said when explaining the rules is that he likes it more than the Zoo game. I honestly think that they aren't similar enough to compare. I can see it because you are set collecting and whatnot- but they are different enough where I wouldn't say lets play this or this. One is a filler game one it a bigger game with more "theme" and choices.

I enjoy them both! It was definitely a cute filler game that I will have to acquire at some point.

the useless cards it comes with.

Dan wanted to give his game Valley of the Kings another play and we taught Marsha in a 3 player game.

This game is a small boxed deck-builder. It is quite fun and while not my favorite deck builder game it is in the top.

It has a lot of nice features in it. Like most deck games you want to try and trash the base cards early to thin the deck. This game allows you to Entomb cards for points. You don't need a special action you can just do this every turn 1 time. Call entomb cards = your total VPs at the end of the game. The starting cards are all worth 1, the purple cards are all worth 2, then there are the yellow, red, green and blue cards that are all based on the # of each color you have.

In our game I got 6 blues for 36 points and a whole lot of other cards since I started entombing from turn 1. Naturally, I kicked everyone's butt.

All the cards can be entombed, used as actions, or used as $$ to buy new cards from the pyramid. I really enjoy that in this deck game because in most deck building games this is not the case. The only other game that kind of has this is Tanto Cuore. I like that there are multi-purpose cards it makes the choices harder and more meaningful then your average deck game like Star Realms (which, by the way, I am still highly addicted to and love on the apps)

Valley of the Kings is definitely interesting and I wouldn't mind playing whenever the opportunity arises.

While I did get to play Tichu next it wasn't the continuation from the previous week. That was sad cause I wanted to finish that game off declare a winner. Maybe tonight we can finish- who knows.

This game I was paired with Marsha against Dan and Bill. I thought we had them- Marsha and I were kicking butt! But then Bill called Grand and they ended up going 1-2 for a 400 point score. It was only a round later that they won. 2 bad hands and the game it completely turned around. How lame!

Tichu is so amazing and probably my favorite trick taking game. Too fun!

The last game of the night was Würfel Bohnanza. For some strange reason I find this game really entertaining. I am weird that way. It might be all the colors and change of someone else rolling exactly what you need that keeps your attention the whole time. It is a clever dice game that I should play more!

During the week Ron and I didn't see that many games. We did play a 2p game of Keyflower. That was actually more fun as a 2p than I remember. I actually don't recall ever playing it 2p before but Ron thought we had. It ended up being a close finish. I thought I had won but Ron recounted. He had 62 I had 60. Grr! He snatched up my bonus end tile that would have scored me like 20 points because he had 5 yellows to outbid me. I suppose that is the game. I like that it was so close cause I felt I was just doing so poorly. I don't recommend this game with 5 or 6 It is OK but can really drag on longer than it is welcomed with that many peoples. Was quite good with 2- we will have to play again soon!

On Wednesday we broke the shrink to Le Havre. YAY!! But wow- lots to punch and sort for sure. So yeah I banked on that and took a LOT of pictures of the mess. :laugh:

This game continues to impress me. It is a lot of little actions to have one big picture. I really enjoy it. It is certainly a brainbuster and you don't want to be cause with a bad AP person.

I was the AP on Wednesday so much that I had to half way through postpone to Friday to finish cause I wanted to sleep.

Really happy to have the game now since it is a really good 2 player and 3 player game. I will have to go buy a Plano box though. :laugh:

I really thought I had Ron this game. I did my best game yet ending with 224! I never really get high above 200 if ever. Ron was just above my score with 234. I kept shipping all game and had so much gold and I bought all the buildings and I thought was killing it. Yep, nope. That's okay I got some AMAZING pics- so excited.

Are you ready for a million photos of Le Havre- I just had so much fun photographing it!

Probably my Contender for next months photo contest.

Thursday night was another game night. I ended up teaching The Palaces of Carrara to 2 others and still continuing my streak of going first I won. I will have to go first one of these day with a game of experienced players and see if I can still win. I wasn't sure I was actually going to win but since $$ was 2$for 1vp I was killing it I almost made it to the 150 mark when 2nd place was almost to the 100 mark. sorry fellas! It was okay since they both enjoyed it. I did warn them about the fast ending that will happen. A great game that I think could be considered as an gateway game for sure.

We had some time to spare so we ended up playing a game of Cities 3 player teaching 1. I probably helped the newbie too much since he score better than Joe who has played a bunch of times. haha I got 62 and newbie got 53 and joe I think got 48 something like that. Still a favorite and my go-to filler game. Just amazing. If you ever want a challenge hit me up on BAJ sn punkin312.

Last game of the night was a 5 player Tribune: Primus Inter Pares. I was sort of teaching this with Joe helping. I have played this probably 4 or 5 times before. Some parts can be confusing. I picked totally the wrong end game conditions so the game lasted about 90 minutes + more. Yeah that was a bit long. It is still a great game but it shouldn't last that long. 2 players were learning so it was a bit slower because of that.

In the game there are multiple ways to victory. Provided you get 3/7 of the end conditions you can declare winner at the end of the round. I happened to choose the one where you MUST get a tribune in order to declare winning. This was my mistake that took longer since acquiring a Tribune is tough to do and not good for a first play- so that was my bad. I own it but have yet to play my copy- I should do that.

It is worker placement with some bidding involved and control over the different factions. It is very interesting game.

Again, Friday night Ron and I finished that game of Le Havre and that was it until Sat game day.

We hosted game day again and got in a bunch of great games.

We started the day off with a 4p game of Five Tribes. Ron taught the game to the others and we started. I had a strong start but then lost focus and VPs due to bidding too high for the turn order. I got some Djinns and that was cool. Then I didn't use them so that was wasteful. Definitely not my best play but one day I will get it to work for me. I didn't even break 100 points I did that badly! I think the winning score was like 130s. Cool game- still happy to play it!

Still with 4 we moved onto the next game which we choose to be Sultaniya. I had played this once before at GenCon and had a great time. I was happy to get to play 4 players this game to see if that changed the dynamics which I thought didn't really change much. I bet it would be a good 2 player too.

It is a tile laying puzzle type game. You are building the palace and trying to score points based on your player board's victory conditions. I was focusing on those as well as the hidden goals. The Hidden goals are more about the placement of the tiles while the players goals are more about the actual tiles and pictures on them.

As soon as someone completes the palaces with the top row containing 5 tiles then the game is declared over and we score.

I basically destroyed them. =D WAAHAAHAA I ended with 54 and left them in the dust. Really cool game that I definitely want to add to my collection at some point.

Another contender for the Oct photo contest. I think I like the Le Havre one more though.

We acquired one more person to the mix and Riley had 2 copies of Doodle Quest so we twisted all arms into playing that one. It is such a fun game! I love trying to visualize and do the tasks the cards say. We played 5 player (the game holds 4 but Riley had 2 copies and Even I have a copy we could have played up to 12!) I am usually pretty good at this one but I seemed to be focused more on taking interesting pictures! I did alright but screwed up on some easy ones so everyone passed me in the scores. Awesome cute game for any family!

Before

After- I did a good job with this one!

We weren't sure if anyone else was showing up so we played a fast game of Qwixx cause that's what we do! I think I am pretty much qwixxed out for now. I would much rather play Cities. It is a good filler and I don't mind playing it but it is not my first choice anymore. Still good.

No one showed up so we played 5 player La Boca. I don't play this as much as I should since it is lots of laughs and a bunch of fun. The problem is Ron always wins. He just must be super smart. I warn everyone before we start that he is a beast but it changes nothing hahah Ron won.

This game is semi co-op so you would immediately think that I would hate it but I don't It is quite enjoyable. While, yes, you are working with others to build the puzzle fastest you also have to work with EVERYONE 2 times. It is strictly a few others but it is everyone. Best score at the end wins. Simple really!

Halfway through. Everytime it is my turn I flip the chit and see who I play with.

More people showed up so 3 went to play Clash of Cultures and 3 of us played Sanssouci since that was fast as we were expecting another play shortly. The 3 of us have all played before so it was just a walk in park game.

It is a simple tile laying game to try and get the nobles to walk as far into the garden as possible and score points along the way.

Even better when you beat Dan by 1 point MWAAHAAHAA!

My hand- you always have 2 cards to choose from

My end goals/bonus scoring cards

Michael showed up and since I had played tribune on Thursday I wanted to play again. It gave me a chance to take some pictures which was nice. Dan and I were teaching 2 others so we opted to not play with the expansion. I do want to play with that sometime soon. We played with end conditions not so difficult as the other night which was better and the two newbs creamed Dan and I. They took it away and won. Haha oh well, I was never good at that game I am still surprised that I won on Thursday!

We were still at a count of 4 so we brought out Asara. I have owned it for a really long time and haven't really took it out to play so I suggested that one. It is beautiful! I love building the towers. so many phallic jokes it is just too funny. IM SORRY BUT IT IS TRUE! :whistle::modest::laugh:

I can't help it.

The game is 4 rounds long and it is worker placement and set collection. You have to get the top and bottom (in the same color) of the tower befor eyou can place the tiles in front of you.

So each round you get 7 cards all different colors and these you use on the board to acquire the pieces you need and pay the cost. The white towers cost 8 per piece but at the best scoring at the end. The brown towers are the cheapest but score the lest in the end. At the end of each round you score per tower that you have 1 point and per Golden gem and lighted window you have played in front of you.

I had a crazy good start to the game and got out a 3 white tower with 3 golden gems on it. So right there was socring 4 points. After round 2 I had another white piece and gem with a black tower and brown tower built. I was killing it.

I got all that out early and was scoring big the whole game. I ended it with 88 and left everyone else in the dust with 50s or less. =D This is my kind of game!

Also it is so pretty!

When we finished that game the Clash game was over and people were leaving and we were going to make some food. We played a 5 player game of Polterfass as the food was cooking.

We had taught Michael last week and he really took a liking to it! It makes me happy since I really enjoy this game as well. And I won!

Perfect filler for a bunch of players and Some serious push your luck and knowing how to read people and what they might bid.

I love that type of game.
I should really take more photos of this game.

After that food was about done but we had set up and started teaching Strasbourg. This game can be confusing at first but once you start going it picks up and things make sense.

There are hidden goals that every one gets dealt 5 at the beginning and you choose to keep however many you want. I kept 3 which were all pretty doable but I managed to screw it up and not have a high enough bid to place the 5 VP token in the round I needed to so that messed up one of my end scoring conditions. Everything else was on point but I still came in 3rd. Ron ran away with it.

The game has a really neat bidding mechanic that I wish more games used. And if there are other games like that I would like to know because I haven't played them.

There are 5 rounds and each round you draw from your stack of numbered cards 1-6. Once the stack has run out then you can no longer bid so you want to make sure you have a full enough cards to last the 5 rounds. You draw one by one and pre-determine the different amounts you want to bid in the upcoming round. Really clever and enjoyable mechanic.

It has come area control too with some after round scoring bonuses. Great game!

5 players still so we played a couple of good 5 player games. Next up was Die Sieben Siegel. We taught Michael he really enjoyed playing Steven Seagal a lot. I was pretty great at it -or I just got lucky cards. Either way I kicked butt with only 8 points at the end. Low score wins. I think the high score was 28. whoops.
Pretty great trick taking game that I would happily play anytime.

Then we got in a game of Lords of Xidit. It was getting on the later side so people weren't as sharp as the might normally be. But, they picked it up and I lost in the first results whoops. Michael- despite just learning kicked butt and took the win.

I am still so happy I got this at GenCon it has seen a lot of plays and still proving to be a great game. Most everyone has enjoy this game that I have taught so that is also good!

The theme is just amazing since I love Seasons so much. I love this hidden planning and then seeing where everyone goes. It is just really interesting.

Almost capping the night we played a 3 games of No Thanks!. Another game Michael had never played but really enjoyed. It is quite a good filler for sure- classic. I still prove to be terrible at this game! I just can't say no apparently.

snapped some pics.

With 4 players left we played 4 games of the very fast Streams. Or my Edition calls it 20 Express. There are 20 tiles pulled from the bag 1 at a time. Each time a til eis drawn from the bag you must write that # down in the train line. You try to form large trains to get more points. The train lines are the low to high numbers as soon as a new lower # is played then it is a new train formed.

The best you could do is a 20 train which is probably impossible haha. I was SOOOOOOOOO close to a 20 train I JUST needed a 13. Was that too much to ask? Yes, yes it was. OH THE TENSION WAS HIGH on that last pull. It was great! Then it was devastation.

Haha I am so dramatic but so is that game. Seriously a 5 minute game that has a good time with it.

Sadly no games were played on Sunday due to my friend's wedding. Last week I played a boat load of Star Realms on the ipad... so addicting... I am pretty sure I have a problem. :whistle:

If you want a challenge my username is : punkin

Thanks for reading!
Happy week of games everyone! Have a good time! Until next week...

by Cro1

Yes but if you play with more experienced players, they would most certainly use the shipping lines very frequently and it would be very tough to beat someone like that just by using the shipping line once or twice.

by Cro1

Yes you are, you are asking like you are having a baby, are we ready for a baby? :) Just get it.

by Cro1

Not knowing the scoring throughout the game makes it more interesting.

by Cro1

Its just like anything else in life. Lets say a video game, you might die and replay the same map or level or whatnot because you need a few times to figure out the best strategy. This is not "Sorry" or "Yahtzee" or "Battleship" or whatnot, its a -medium-to-maybe heavy- board game and expecting to grasp your first strategy on the first go is out of the question. Heck, even watching a movie for the second time, you realize that you suddenly start seeing things that you've missed the first time you watched it and you have a different feeling about the whole movie.

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