A busy weekend; on Saturday we travelled to London to see
Ballet Rambert perform Ghost Dances at Sadler’s Wells (wonderful – we last saw
this in York 36 years ago!).
On Sunday we visited Val and Chris and played a
single game of ‘Lords of Vegas’, which was a new game for us as a group. The
strategy revolves around developing and then controlling casinos on the Vegas
strip; an interesting mix of economics and dice rolling. The game starts
slowly, lulling you into a false state of security, but develops into a
cut-throat take-over mode as the end approaches. The ability of players to negotiate
deals also plays a significant part of the game, and I think Chris was
especially astute in this respect. He gained early control of a large casino
complex on the central strip which would win him the game. The final scores
were very tight, all players were within 2 scoring places of the winner. An
enjoyable game, but players need to be thick skinned because your friends will
stab you in the back and you need to be OK with this. I recall that on one turn
I was short of $2M, so gambled successfully at Val’s casino and used my winnings
to immediately take control of said casino; she was not a happy bunny! Elaine
also knifed me a couple of times, but Chris got away relatively unscathed
because his casino was too big (and therefore too expensive) to move against.
We only played the single game because we spent time
discussing arrangements for our up-coming trip to UKGE at Birmingham NEC in a
couple of weeks. Looking forward to this and will write up an account in a
future post.
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