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Pierre Paquet
Canada
Boischatel
Québec Province
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It's always fun when we try a new Age of Steam expansion. The Disco Inferno map is having many new mechanisms and the rules weren't too difficult to understand. The main new rule is that some cities are removed when there is no more good in this city. There is also the delivery rule that allow players to move more than 1 good in a single delivery as long as it follows a chain of cities. The map seemed to be able too support the 6 players that would play tonight.
Mario started the bet of round 1 with and Pierre and Laurence betted higher. So Laurence had the initiative and she urbanized a city in the middle of the map so it attracted 3 other players and there was a big congestion in this area. Martin was almost encircled but we know him and he would surely find a way out of this situation as he usually does. Marc-Andre and Nathalie went for the sides of the map where they could control their game more easily. Laurence started the bets at 4 in round 2 but the loco action was choosen by the 4th player only The same situation happened in the next round when the loco action went in third place, it shows that the game was very critical for many players and first build and first move were more important at this stage. On round 3 some cities were already removed as they had no more goods on them so it explain why first move action was becoming important. Bets in round 4 went high as most players betted twice and Marc-Andre was left with 5th place with his turn order. Laurence won the bets at 11$ for urbanization and Martin again won the locomotive action. Marc-Andre was developing his network in the east and he deny Nathalie in building in the southeast area. At this stage the game was very tough for everyone as we all had money problems. Laurence was caught in the middle of the map and made amost no income but Martin made a nice urbanization and shipped 2 goods for 5 income each. Marc-Andre and Martin were clearly in the lead and they fought hard in the end. In the end everyone had to give some income to other players to have some nice deliveries. Marc-Andre finnaly won the game as he didn't need to fight early in the game and he used the chain reaction delivery more often than the other players.
Interaction was good in this game as most players were fighting to have the last good of the cities that were almost empty. We'll have to play this scenario again soon as the game should be faster as the players will use the chain reaction more often.
Final scoring:
Marc-André: 75
Martin: 74
Pierre: 64
Nathalie: 57
Mario: 42
Laurence: 9
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