Having missed the previous club night (I was at work). It was great to be able to make this one.
This session wasn’t as well attended as the previous one, but eight on one of the nights many parties with exploding things going off isn’t bad.
After briefly showing the contents of my DM bag to Charlene it was time to play some games.
At the Welcome to the Moon gaming session I had arranged to bring Dune Imperium along for Charlene to try.
So we had our game sorted. Two others joined us to turn this into a four player game.
We were playing the core game with the Rise of Ix expansion.
I was the only one that had played Dune Imperium before. So after going over the rules play commenced.
Compared to the previous game there was much more conflict going on. This was mainly due to the early conflict cards giving a victory point to the winner. Something we didn’t see in the previous game. The conflict cards giving control to one of the three city spaces along with the victory point also came up, along with the later cards being worth two victory points. You really couldn’t ignore combat in this game.
I was playing the Baron for the first time. I do like the choosing two factions ability he has. It’s a hard decision to make. I chose the Spacing Guild as one of them. The thinking was once triggered it’d help me get two influence on the track and open up the second space on the shipping track.
I ended up buying mainly emperor related cards in the trade row. These were giving me card draw. I was getting turns where I was drawing two or three extra cards.
Luckily I drew an intrigue card that allowed me to buy a dreadnaught for three solari early on. This helped greatly in those all important battles at the end of the round.
My purchase of my third agent was delayed by a round when Charlene took the space I needed on the shipping track as my first turn. But that’s the point of worker placement mechanics.
I triggered the end of the game with two rounds to spare by winning a combat worth two victory points.
Four of my victory points were from the influence track plus an alliance, I bought one with an intrigue card, plus I got one from an endgame intrigue card. The rest of my victory points came from combat.
It was a good evening gaming. I just need to try and swap shifts so I can make the next one.