Our next meeting will be on Tuesday, 7^th August, at the Horse and Jockey pub in Stanford-in-the-Vale.  As usual, we will be playing shorter games from 7.30pm as people arrive, until 8pm when we will start something a little longer.

This week the “Feature Game” will be Altiplano, a bag building game that re-implements some of the mechanisms found in Orléans.  Players must build an effective production engine as well as deliver the right goods at the right time and store goods cleverly enough to fill the most valuable areas of their warehouse, all the while being scrutinised by a large cardboard alpaca…

– Image used with permission of boardgamephotos

And talking of alpacas…

Jeff was visiting his South American cousin, José, who farmed alpacas up on the high planes in the Andes.  Alpacas are quite substantial beasts and very nosy, so were very interested in this newcomer from Europe.  Jeff, on the other hand, was a more than a little intimidated by the large shaggy creatures.  José was very understanding though, and explained that they were really very friendly adding, “There’s really no cause for a llama…”