{"id":3881,"date":"2003-09-25T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2003-09-25T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.westpark-gamers.de\/blog\/2003\/09\/25\/session-report-review-25-09-2003\/"},"modified":"2003-09-25T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2003-09-25T10:00:00","slug":"session-report-review-25-09-2003","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.westpark-gamers.de\/blog\/2003\/09\/25\/session-report-review-25-09-2003\/","title":{"rendered":"Session Report & Review 25.09.2003"},"content":{"rendered":"

Session Report & Review 25.09.2003<\/h2>\n

Author<\/b>: Moritz<\/p>\n

at the table<\/b>: Loredana, Andrea, Peter, Moritz<\/p>\n

on the table<\/b>: T-Rex, Star Wars – Epic Duels, Bluff<\/p>\n

    \n
  1. <\/a>T-Rex<\/a><\/b>\"T-Rex\n

    For some reason this game gets good replay in our group – it is a clever little card
    \ngame with good mechanisms (that take at least 1 game getting used to – the game confused
    \nme as well when I first played it!). Each player tries to gather dinosaur eggs in
    \ndifferent colors, even better: of the SAME color, as their net worth will be squared (so
    \n3 eggs of the same color give 9 points).<\/p>\n

    Each turn two eggs are revealed randomly, the player who played the highest card in
    \nthe final round of card play gets the first choice of “egg”, the second gets
    \nthe remaining one. The LAST player will be able to alter trump OR losing suit for the
    \nnext round. In a 4-player round, the 3rd player will get nothing, which is usually to be
    \navoided, as the ability to change trump suits is actually pretty important in the end
    \ngame.<\/p>\n

    Each player has exactly the same number of cards, numbered 1-15, but in 5 colors (so 1
    \ncolor has the 1, 6 and 11, another color has the 2, 7 and 12 and so on). There are also
    \ntwo special cards (more about them later).<\/p>\n

    You start with only a selection of cards, the others come into play through drawing
    \nadditional cards from your private draw pile, to which about half of the cards you will
    \nplay enable you. The brown “8” gives you 3 new cards for example. The other
    \nhalf of the cards are “comet” cards: these start the last round of card play,
    \nstarting from the player who played them (this last round will determine the
    \n“winner” of the current turn), but only until somebody plays a HIGHER comet
    \ncard, which starts a new round. So it is possible to prolong the last round a lot of
    \ntimes, which is usually what happens. Playing the same card as your predecessor actually
    \nbeats his\/her card. But as you never really know when exactly the round will end (players
    \nmight also play one of the special cards, the “super comet”, which beats all
    \nother comets) it will also be in your interest to play a card that is the highest in the
    \ncurrent round. And if you played the highest comet you also have to play an additional
    \ncard for your final play – if it is also a comet, it could prolong the current
    \nround\u2026again!<\/p>\n

    \"T-Rex<\/p>\n

    Decisions, decisions\u2026.<\/p>\n

    For this problem you can use the “chameleosaurus” card, which enables you to
    \nimitate the card you play it on, without copying its comet or card draw abilities. If
    \nyellow is the trump color you could first play the 11 comet card (which is the highest
    \nyellow card), and then, as the final card play, the chameleon, which is again the yellow
    \n11, but doesn’t start the new round.<\/p>\n

    Another mechanism makes the game interesting: After one round is finished, each player
    \neither removes the visible card of his discard pile, or an unknown card from his draw
    \npile. The discard pile is then turned over and placed under the draw pile. Therefore you
    \nhave to memorize your cards, as they will reappear in exactly the same order. You’ll
    \nalso have to memorize the cards the other players lose, as they will determine who is
    \nleading in one or the other color.<\/p>\n

    The game ends when the number of available cards reaches a certain limit, the player
    \nwith the highest net worth in eggs wins.<\/p>\n

    The challenge in this game is to judge when you start the “final” comet
    \nround: sometimes, if your hand is better than the other player’s hands, you should
    \npush early to exploit this advantage, if you have few cards, you might play the
    \n“card draw” cards first. But you might miss the end of the round, which
    \nsometimes comes earlier than you think, when players refuse (or are unable) to play
    \nhigher comet cards to continue the round. Very often an unexpected card play of your
    \nneighbor can ruin your best plans!<\/p>\n\n\n
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