Bordoodle

Race for the Galaxy with The Gathering Storm and Rebel vs. Imperium Expansions

Initial Card Selection

Galacitc Freedom League selects the Damaged Alien Factory home world and discards 2 cards.

Mos Eisly selects the Rebel Cantina home world and discards 2 cards.

Eridani Edict selects the Epsilon Eridani home world and discards 2 cards.

Slow Hamsters select the Separatist World and discard 2 cards.

Round 1

Phase Selection

Galactic Freedom League selects Produce.  Mos Eisly and Eridani Edict select Explore (+1, +1).  Slow Hamsters selects Develop.

Explore Phase

Galactic Freedom League draw 2 cards and keep 1.  Mos Eisly draws 3 cards and keeps 2.  Eridani Edict draws 3 cards and keeps 2.  Slow Hampsters draw 4 cards and keep 1.

Develop Phase

Galactic Freedom League, Mos Eisly, and Eridani Edict pass.  Slow Hampsters play Expedition Force.

Produce Phase

Galactic Freedom League discards a card to produce on Damaged Alien Factory.

Round 2

Phase Selection

Explore Phase

Galactic Freedom League, Mos Eisley, and Eridani Edict each draw 2 cards and keep 1.  Slow Hampsters draw 6 cards and keep 2.

Settle Phase

Galactic Freedom League passes.  Mos Eisly passes.  Eridani Edict discards 2 cards to play Spice World, gaining a card.  Slow Hampsters conquers Sumggling Lair, gaining a rare windfall good.

Consume Phase

Galactic Freedom League trades 1 alien good from Damaged Alien Factory for 5 cards.  Slow Hampsters consume 1 rare good on Suggling Lair, gaining 2 cards.

Round 3

Phase Selection

Explore Phase

Galactic Freedom League and Mos Eisley each draw 2 cards and keep 1.  Eridani Edict draws 3 cards and keeps 2.  Slow Hampsters draw 5 cards and keep 1.

Develop Phase

Settle Phase

Galactic Freedom League passes.  Mos Eisly passes.  Eridani Edict conquers Star Nomad Lair, gaining a novelty windfall good.  Slow Hampsters conquers New Sparta, drawing a card.

Round 4

Phase Selection

Explore Phase

Galactic Freedom League draws 4 cards and keeps 2.  Mos Eisly draws 3 cards and keeps 2.  Eridani Edict draws 3 cards and keep 1.  Slow Hampsters draw 5 cards, combines them with their hand, and discards 4.

Settle Phase

Galactic Freedom League discards 3 cards to settle Galactic Resort, gaining a novelty windfall good.  Mos Eisly passes.  Eridani Edict passes.  Slow Hampsters conquers Runaway Robots, gaining a rare windfall good and drawing a card.

Consume Phase

Galactic Freedom League consumes 1 novelty good from Galactic Resort on Galactic Resort gaining 1VP and 1 card.  Eridani Edict trades 1 novelty good from Star Nomad Lair for 5 cards.  Slow Hampsters consume 1 rare good on Suggling Lair, gaining 2 cards.

Produce Phase

Round 5

Phase Selection

Explore Phase

Galactic Freedom League draws 4 cards and keeps 2.  Mos Eisly draws 3 cards and keeps 2.  Eridani Edict draws 3 cards and keep 1.  Slow Hampsters draw 5 cards, combines them with their hand, and discards 4.

Settle Phase

Galactic Freedom League discards 4 cards to settle Distant World.  Mos Eisly passes.  Eridani Edict discards 3 cards to play Galactic Bazaar, gaining a novelty windfall good.  Slow Hampsters discards 2 cards to play Imperium Warlord, drawing a card.

Consume Phase

Galactic Freedom League trades 1 alien good from Damaged Alien Factory for 5 cards and consumes 1 novelty good from Galactic Resort on Galactic Resort gaining 1VP and 1 card.  Eridani Edict trades 1 novelty good from Spice World for 5 cards and consumes a novelty good from Galactic Bazaar on Epsilon Eridani for 1 card and 1VP, then discard 3 cards.

Round 6

Phase Selection

Develop Phase

Settle Phase

Galactic Freedom League discards 2 cards to settle Earth's Lost Colony.  Mos Eisly discards 3 cards to play Alien Rosetta Stone.  Eridani Edict passes.  Slow Hampsters conquers Hidden Fortress, drawing a card.

Produce Phase

Round 7

Phase Selection

Explore Phase

Galactic Freedom League draws 4 cards and keeps 2.  Mos Eisly draws 3 cards and keeps 2.  Eridani Edict draws 4 cards and keeps 2.  Slow Hampsters draw 6 cards, combines them with their hand, and discards 5.

Develop Phase

Consume Phase

Round 8

Phase Selection

Settle Phase

Galactic Freedom League discards 7 cards to settle Alien Data Repository.  Mos Eisly conquers Alien Robot Scout Ship, gaining 1 alien windfall good and drawing a card.  Eridani Edict discards 3 cards to play Prosperous World.  Slow Hampsters conquers Lost Alien Battlefleet, drawing a card.

Produce Phase

Round 9

Phase Selection

Explore Phase

Galactic Freedom League draws 4 cards, combines them with their hand and discards 2.  Mos Eisly draws 3 cards and keeps 2.  Eridani Edict draws 3 cards and keeps 1.  Slow Hampsters draw 6 cards, combines them with their hand, and discards 5.

Consume Phase

Round 10

Phase Selection

Develop Phase

Settle Phase

Galactic Freedom League discards 5 cards to settle New Earth.  Mos Eisly discards 2 cards to play Deserted Alien Library, gaining an alien windfall good.  Eridani Edict conquers Rebel Colony, drawing a card.  Slow Hampsters discard a card to play Gambling World.

Produce Phase

Round 11

Phase Selection

Explore Phase

Galactic Freedom League draws 4 cards, combines them with their hand and discards 2.  Mos Eisly draws 3 cards and keeps 2.  Eridani Edict draws 3 cards and keeps 1.  Slow Hampsters draw 6 cards, combines them with their hand, and discards 5.

Consume Phase

Round 12

Phase Selection

Develop Phase

Settle Phase

Galactic Freedom League discards 4 cards to settle Tourist World.  Mos Eisly conquers Alien Robot Sentry.  Eridani Edict conquers Rebel Stronghold.  Slow Hampsters conquer the Alien Monolith, gaining an alien windfall good and drawing a card.

Produce Phase

End of Game

Galactic Freedom League now has 12 cards in his tableau, and Slow Hampsters have 14, both of which end the game.

Victory Points

6 Cost Developments

Most Goals

Highest Military:  Slow Hampsters has +14, Eridani Edict has +4, Mos Eisly has +3, and Galactic Freedom League has 0.  Slow Hampsters claims the goal.

Most Production Worlds:  Galactic Freedom League has 5, Eridani Edict has 2, Slow Hampsters have 1, and Mos Eisly has 0.  Galactic Freedom League claims the goal.

Victory Point Totals

End of Game Statements

Christopher Hunt (Mos Eisly):  Congratulations to Chris H on his dramatic win and to Chris H for running the game.  I enjoy this game but lost track of my cards.

Chris Hibbert (Galactic Freedom League):  My first choice was between Alpha Centauri and Damaged Alien Factory for initial world. I liked the production from DAF, even though it would cost a discard each time. (I only failed to discard once.)  The rest of my starting cards were fairly boring.

My first explore draw gave me Pan Galactic Research, a 6 point development with pluses for Phases I, II, and V. That seemed worth stretching for. It also meant that I could hold up to 12 cards.

My second explore provided Galactic Exchange, with bonuses for Consume.
On Round 4, I got Diversified Economy, and my course was pretty well set.

From that point, I only chose Produce and Consume, since I had more production than anyone else. I had plenty of pluses for consume, so I always had plenty of cards.

That seems like a pretty lucky set of card draws. I've only played the game a handful of times F2F, so it's hard to gauge just how lucky it was. I suspect my next few games will be significantly more pedestrian. It helped some that the other players all seemed to be going for military, but given my cards that may not have mattered so much.

Thanks for the game, and thanks for bearing with my mistakes Chris!

Kevin Wilson (Eridani Edict):  Well, it was fairly clear early on that it was an uphill slug to catch Chris. He got off to such a great start that the play thereafter was mostly just watching him go!  Even the few points I did get only came mainly in the final 2 or 3 turns so I was never much of a threat to mount any charge. I’m still struggling a bit with the iconography of the game, having to repeatedly look up meanings but a few pieces did come together in my learning process this time.  Each game is a progression I guess.  I need to put more effort in looking at combos and thinking them through in this game (and other tableau building games too) to continue to improve.

Thanks to Chris for running the game, to the others for their patience at times while I did homework (or RL work) and congrats to the other Chris on an impressive win.

Bill Scharf (Slow Hampsters):  Thanks Chris H for running the game and congratulations Chris H….damn that’s not going to work this time. Congratulations Chris Hibbert for his win. A big produce/consume engine is hard to beat…keep adding to it as others pick settle and develop and you’re golden. As always, the game was a blast to play, thanks everybody!

The Players

VP Pool:  20

Available Goals

Most Goals:  Highest Military (at least 6) and Most Production Worlds (at least 4).

First Goals:  First player to have 3 Uplift cards in his tableau

Galactic Freedom League

Mos Eisly

Note that the first goal here is a stand-in for the First 6-Value Development goal, co-earned with Galactic Freedom League.

Eridani Edict

Slow Hampsters