Current mood:	headachy but alarmingly alert
Current music:	"Darmok" incidentals (ST:TNG)
Entry tags:	age of steam, boardgames

Ages and Aaaages of Steam
Brian and Roman around for boardgames: AoS had been flagged in advance, so I'd given the rules a goodly read-through in advance, punched some bits, and was generally ready to roll.

So I thought, at least...  Quite a few rules sidebars before we started -- I thinking having printed and read the FAQ would have been a good idea, too...  Brian had connected up a length-3 route, and had his loco able to make length-3 runs, while Roman and I were still faffing around trying to maximise the number of length-1s we'd be able to monopolise.  I think he had it won pretty much from there, though the devil was very much in the detail...

The winning move?  (In the second turn.)



Owch.



Final position:



Scores: totals rendered somewhat meaningless due to a serious misapplication of the "income reduction" rule.  But at any rate...  B: 3*72+33-3*9=222; A=3*59+30-3*14=165; R=3*34+25-3*15=82.  Had we played IR correctly, I think it might have things significantly closer, but might have also made things even more "tight" for cash, especially for Roman and I.

I enjoyed it, perhaps in a somewhat masochistic manner, and would like to play it again soonish...  perhaps in part to amortise our "sidebar"/"misunderstanding losses!