Friday Night Gaming: Galactic Emperor
March 13, 2009
We were missing Zach and Ian due to Ian's sister being in town. This meant that we still haven't played Street Fighter. But Tom was able to make it, giving us a table of 5.
Galactic Emperor
Merwin pulled this from his collection and during setup, it was clear that it had been too long since we had played. And since this was Tom's first game, we decided to do a couple rounds of practice before resetting and beginning fresh.
I tried to not make myself a target, choosing Scientist 3 times instead of more controversial roles. With Space Pirates (a controversial technology to be sure) and Protein Fields, I was hoping to have access to resources without a lot of early expansion. Unfortunately, I ended up with two systems that generated Energy and Robert (to my left) had none, so I was a target for him. Merwin expanded onto a bunch of food planets which no one contested and ended up giving him lots of income when he sold is 10+ food cubes each time Merchant came up. Brian and Tom were butting heads on their border to their mutual distraction.
I eventually moved against Merwin, Robert moved against me, and I lost a lot of ground. Merwin preemptively struck against Brian and won. Figuring he was going to lose anyway, Brian made a suicide run at Merwin. Tom made a run at Robert, but then Robert (aided by his Robotics, he easily had the most deployed ships) grabbed territory from him.
The game lasted around 4 hours and we finally called it at midnight. A final tally of victory points put Robert and Merwin tied, but Robert won the tiebreaker. It's possible Merwin forgot to count all his vp and should have won, but we'll never know for sure.
As with the first time we played, I think the game is good but too long, at least with this group. I doubt it will come out again, as everyone was very fatigued at the end. I wouldn't be surprised if Merwin trades it.
We were missing Zach and Ian due to Ian's sister being in town. This meant that we still haven't played Street Fighter. But Tom was able to make it, giving us a table of 5.
Galactic Emperor
Merwin pulled this from his collection and during setup, it was clear that it had been too long since we had played. And since this was Tom's first game, we decided to do a couple rounds of practice before resetting and beginning fresh.
I tried to not make myself a target, choosing Scientist 3 times instead of more controversial roles. With Space Pirates (a controversial technology to be sure) and Protein Fields, I was hoping to have access to resources without a lot of early expansion. Unfortunately, I ended up with two systems that generated Energy and Robert (to my left) had none, so I was a target for him. Merwin expanded onto a bunch of food planets which no one contested and ended up giving him lots of income when he sold is 10+ food cubes each time Merchant came up. Brian and Tom were butting heads on their border to their mutual distraction.
I eventually moved against Merwin, Robert moved against me, and I lost a lot of ground. Merwin preemptively struck against Brian and won. Figuring he was going to lose anyway, Brian made a suicide run at Merwin. Tom made a run at Robert, but then Robert (aided by his Robotics, he easily had the most deployed ships) grabbed territory from him.
The game lasted around 4 hours and we finally called it at midnight. A final tally of victory points put Robert and Merwin tied, but Robert won the tiebreaker. It's possible Merwin forgot to count all his vp and should have won, but we'll never know for sure.
As with the first time we played, I think the game is good but too long, at least with this group. I doubt it will come out again, as everyone was very fatigued at the end. I wouldn't be surprised if Merwin trades it.
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