Our next meeting will be on Tuesday 7th January 2025. As usual, we will start playing shorter games from 7.30pm as people arrive, until 8pm when we will start something a little longer. The pub is doing food, and the table is booked from 6.30pm for those that would like to eat first.
This week, the “Feature Game” will be Concordia Venus (rules, review, how to play video), which is a reimplementation of Concordia (and can also be played with an upgrade-expansion to the original game). Concordia is a strategy game of economic development in Roman times. Although the rules are relatively simple, the game is quite complex.
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And speaking of Venus…
Joe and Jeff were on a camping trip. After a hearty meal and a good bottle of wine, they settled down for the night.
Suddenly, in the middle of the night, Joe woke up and, shaking his pal awake too asked Jeff “What do you see?”
Rubbing his sleepy eyes, Jeff replied, “I see millions and millions of stars.”
Joe sighed, “Yes… and what do you conclude from that?”
Jeff thought for a moment and then answered, “Well, temporally I conclude it is about 03:30 am, astrologically I conclude that Venus is showing in the sign of Aquarius, astronomically I conclude that we are on a planet, orbiting the sun in a spiral arm of our galaxy, and religiously I conclude that God wants to use this this splendour to show us that we are but a small, insignificant speck of dust in the infinite grace of His creation. Is that what you mean?”
Joe answered, “No… I think somebody stole our tent.”
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