Hamburgum - 24 September 2014

Actually "Londinium" since we played with the English language version on the other side of the board.  Adrian took an early lead from a fleet of ships trading goods but was eventually overtaken as the game progressed.

Final scores: David 73, James 53, Adrian 51, Andy 36, Kieron 33

However, Kieron spotted a Rule 23 - when putting up buildings, players are only allowed to build one Special building at a time.  Both David and James earned double points in the same turn when building two Specials, but I suspect David would be in first place either way.

The Castles of Burgundy - 17 September 2014

Second play for this new game.  Lots of different strategies to follow.  Only real improvement we'd like to see is board and tiles 50% bigger (do they not playtest new games with middle-aged players?!).

David's chicken strategy paid off big time and he won with 232 points, followed by James on 210, Kieron 199 and Andy 195.

Downfall of Pompeii & Tzolk'in - 10 September 2014

We started with Stuart's Downfall of Pompeii (which I half-remember playing at Adrian's many years ago).  A bit of strategy, a fair bit of luck, but a lot of fun in particular in the second half of the game as you direct lava over your opponent's pieces!  Nicely self-levelling too as one tends to direct the lava over the colour with the most pieces, and it did end up very close.  Final scores Stuart 9, David 8, James 8 (third place because of more people taken out by the lava), and Kieron 7.

Plenty of time to then play Tzolk'in with its rotating cogs.  Stuart went for skulls, David a bit of everything, James went for gods, and Kieron seemed to always be short of food.  Final scores James 76 (jumping ahead thanks to a card that rewarded the god strategy), Stuart 61, David 48 and Kieron 31.

Power Grid-Factory Manager - 4th September 2014

Round at Kieron's for a rare outing of a game that should be better than it is. Rules and setup took an hour! Kieron lost the will to complete reading the rules due to overexcited rivals not listening, so the most important rule of the scores being doubled in the last round was omitted! James noticed this as we entered the final round thereby making the final round redundant and we were left feeling empty, but still willing to give it a go again at some point........not before 2018 though!
Final scores were Stuart 165, James 150, David 132, Andy 129 and Kieron 85.