Gaming 1: You are likely to be eaten by a grue
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RftG
End-of-round summary:
Round 5
Goals
Largest Industry - Most Blue/Brown Worlds (chrismg)
Greatest Military - Most Military Strength
Galactic Riches - First to 4 goods
Overlord Discoveries - First to 3 Alien cards
Budget Surplus - First to discard at round end (Laga, omnis)
Galactic Status - First to play 6-cost development (Laga, omnis)
Connie Neil
Layout
Epsilon Eridani (Non-Military World)
Expedition Force (Development)
New Earth (Non-Military Brown Production World) + good
Terraforming Robots (Development)
Rebel Miners (Military Brown Production World) + good
Cards in Hand:
2
Victory Points:
1
Layout Value:
8
6-Cost Developments:
0
Goals:
0
Laga
Layout
Ancient Race (Non-Military Green Windfall World)
Secluded World (Non-Military Blue Production World) + good
Comet Zone (Non-Military Brown Production World) + good
Mining League (6-Cost Development)
Cards in Hand:
2
Victory Points:
0
Layout Value:
4
6-Cost Developments:
2
Goals:
6
omnis
Layout
Separatist Colony (Non-Military World)
Pirate World (Military Blue Windfall World)
New Survivalists (Military Blue Production World) + good
Investment Credits (Development)
Galactic Survey: Seti (6-Cost Development)
Cards in Hand:
4
Victory Points:
0
Layout Value:
5
6-Cost Developments:
5
Goals:
6
chrismg
Layout
Imperium Armaments World (Non-Military Brown Production World) + good
Alpha Centauri (Non-Military Brown Windfall World)
Mining Conglomerate (Development)
Radioactive World (Non-Military Brown Windfall World)
Cards in Hand:
7
Victory Points:
1
Layout Value:
5
6-Cost Developments:
0
Goals:
5
VP Pool: 46
omnis jumps into a 4-point lead, with his Galactic Survey: SETI play raising his score by 8 points.
man, Omnis. Get outta my head!
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I saw that one. It's a riff on a Tumblr joke gone meme, but still funny.
RftG
Just a quick heads-up, we have a player with a hectic work week, hence the delay. Once their time frees up a bit, we'll get orders and be able to start the round.
RftG
I will be unavailable from late 2/16 to early 2/19, as I will be in Vegas in a hot tub.
RftG
I will be unavailable from late 2/16 to early 2/19, as I will be in Vegas in a hot tub.
I approve of these priorities.
Meanwhile! I have everyone's orders:
Connie Neil: Phase IV (x2) - Consume (double VPs)
Laga: Phase IV ($) - Consume (Trade)
omnis: Phase I (+1/+1) - Explore (draw +1 card, keep +1 card)
chrismg: Phase III - Settle
Three phases in four different Action cards. Explore is up first.
Laga
and
chrismg
look at 2 cards and keep 1.
Connie
gets an extra peek from Expedition Force. She looks at 3 cards and keeps 1.
omnis
chose this phase, and both looks at and keeps 1 extra card. And then, both Separatist Colony and Galactic Survey: SETI add two extra peeks
each.
That's look at a total of 7 cards, keep 2 cards.
Everyone, please let me know what you keep. If you haven't done so, you can also send me COs for Phase III. (Or let me know if your Explore draw changes your orders.)
RftG
Everyone's sent me their choice, and orders for Phase III (Settle) as well:
Connie
plays Alien Robot Sentry. This is a 2-strength military Alien windfall world. Her strength of 2 is just sufficient to play it. With this play, she has 3 goods on her layout, one short of the number needed to claim the "4 goods" goal. (It also puts her two Alien cards short of claiming the "3 Alien" goal.) She then draws a card due to Terraforming Robots.
Laga
passes.
omnis
plays Outlaw World. This is a 1-strength military world, which his strength matches. It has a power allowing him to consume 1 good for 1 VP and 1 card.
chrismg
plays Gem World for 2 discards. This is a Blue production world, which gives him 1 card draw whenever he produces on it. This also extends his lead in Blue/Brown worlds; he now has 4 such worlds, while everyone else has 2. He then draws 1 card for choosing this phase.
RftG
We finish up the round with Phase IV (Consume).
Connie
chose this round, and opted to double her VPs. She consumes her 2 Brown goods on Epsilon Eridani and New Earth, for 1 VP and 1 card each. That's 2 VPs and 2 cards, which doubled becomes 4 VPs and 2 cards. She has one good left, the Yellow good on Alien Robot Sentry; she also has one Consume power left, on Terraforming Robots. But that can only consume Brown goods, so her Yellow good goes untouched. (Note that she could have arranged things differently, to consume all three; but players may choose the order in which to resolve Consume powers and which goods to assign to them. She chose to allocate goods so as to keep this one.)
Laga
also chose Phase IV, but she chose to trade a good. She trades her Brown good for 3 cards and consume the Blue good on Secluded World for another 1 card, 4 cards total.
omnis
has 1 Blue good, which he consumes on his new Outlaw World for 1 VP and 1 card.
chrismg
has 1 Brown good, which he consumes on Mining Conglomerate for 1 VP.
Cards are going out now. Everyone, please send me your choice of Action card for Round 7.
