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BGC OTK Meetup Report 3/9/10 – F.I.T.S., Through the Desert, Through the Ages, Caylus Premium Limited Edition, Princes of Machu Pichu

An Engineer’s nite, this is nite is. As newcomer Eunice asked what all our occupations were, we answered: me – Electrical & Electronic Engineer, jack208 – Software Engineer, Lester – IT pseudo-Engineer, Eunice – Mechanical Engineer (And then later Cristiano, the Software Engineer joined us). I think it has something to do with Engineers being [...]

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BGC Cheras Meetup 13/08/10 – Indonesia, Cyclades, Innovation, Roll Through the Ages

The night started with me punching out jack208′s pristine Indonesia set… …helped by blownfreaks… …rhyen, why didn’t you help us? (cracking knuckles)… … let’s go through the rules… rhyen, are you paying attention??? rhyen starts off rice in Bali. i start off rice in Jawa Barat and jack208 comes in to join the fun with [...]

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Indonesia – Cassian Cafe 8 Aug 2010

Thanks to Marcus ‘friedricetheman’ aka ‘the laminator’ lau, we did Indonesia the boardgame after hearing about this game from various places. The best recommendation came from ‘boardgameswithscott’ who is a hardcore gamer whose gamer taste include the 18xx train series. This game also witness the return of Dark Jedi, I mean Datuk Long to the [...]

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Eurogame Retreat 2010: Heng’s Report

Welcome to BGC Boardgame Retreat! This is the third boardgame retreat I’ve been to and I’m unique in being the only one attending all three retreats held in recent years. But enough about me, on to the report! I’m sure jack208 will post something later so I’m just going to make this report one that’s [...]

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BGC Meetup Report 23/4/10 @ Old Town Kopitiam Cheras – Age of Steam, Long Shot, Amun-Re, 18Scan

(left: Nelson, right: Blownfreaks) This day saw the return of Nelson back to OTK, unfortunately into the jaws of Age of Steam sharks. (pic: Afif) Afif, the other AOS newbie learning the ropes. (left: me, middle:kaz) I did what I normally do and secure the locomotive action early on. It was a landslide victory for [...]

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BGC Meetup Report 26/3/10 @ Old Town Kopitiam Cheras – El Grande, Acquire, Dungeon Lords

The game session started with El Grande. (left: Crabzai, right:Blownfreaks) Oldie but goldie. Played it only once before, still not doing great in this session. (left: me) I put many people onto my ‘court’ unaware that there are nefarious cards that can wipe them all out! We did Acquire with some variant rules purchased off [...]

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BGC Meetup Report 12/3/10 @ Old Town Kopitiam Cheras – China, Aladdin’s Dragon, Funny Friends, Dungeon Lords, Wasabi, Puerto Rico

The gang starts with China – apparently this game was so easy that rhyen multitasked on his laptop while aycee multitasked on his hands-free… waiyan takes the game more seriously while explaining the rules to akmal (i hope i got his name right). I was busy eating while wolfx reads up the Dungeon Lords rules [...]

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BGC Meetup 26/2/10 @ Old Town Kopitiam Cheras – Dungeon Lords, Agricola Farmers of Moor

Dungeon Lords was played for the first time in M’sia. Find out what we think of it. Plus more moor farming in Agri-land till the wee hours of Sat morning.

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