June 2, 1999 RussCon Report

21 people, including several new folks.

This Report's a little late. It's all the fault of my computer, mysteriously starting up Heroes of Might & Magic 3 whenever I get near it. How am I supposed to get any work done when it keeps doing that?

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Game Results:

Bluff 5 JeffF 4 RussW 2 KevinH 0 Alfred -2 Jay -4
Automania 5 KevinH 4 Alfred 2 RussW 0 WendyWhe -2 Clayton -4
Elfenland 5 JonathanC 4 James 2 SteveZ 0 Harry -2 Curt -4
Kahuna 2 JayH 1 Jonobie -1
Exxtra 5 RussW 4 Alfred 1 Clayton 1 WendyWhe -2 KevinH -4
HighSociety 5 JP 4 James 2 Harry 0 Steve -3 Curt -3
ZirkusFlohcati 4 Steve 3 JP 1 James -1 Curt -3
Outpost 6 JeffF 5 Jeffles 3 Bob 1 Doug -1 Marty -3 Jay -5
BigCheese 5 WendyWhe 4 Alfred 2 JonathanC 0 KevinH -2 RussW -4
Ra 5 KevinH 4 Alfred 2 Marty -1 Doug -1 WendyWhe -4
ZirkusFlohcati 4 Marty 3 Doug 1 James -2 Harry -2
Euphrates 4 JeffF 3 Steve 1 Curt -2 JP -2
Settlers 4 JeffF 3 Jay 0 JayH 0 Jonobie -3
Exxtra 5 Marty 4 KevinH 2 Alfred 0 Doug -2 WendyWhe -4
Bluff 6 Marty 5 Doug 3 WendyWhe 1 Curt -1 KevinH -3 Steve -5
ZirkusFlohcati 3 Jeffles 2 JP 0 Alfred -2
ZirkusFlohcati 5 Steve 4 Jeffles 2 Curt 0 JP -2 Alfred -4
TrainsportAustria 4 Harry 3 JonathanC 1 Brady -1 RussW -3
ZirkusFlohcati 5 Doug 4 Jeffles 2 JP 0 Harry -2 RussW -4
ZirkusFlohcati 4 RussW 3 Jeffles 0 JP 0 Doug -3
Deadwood 5 Harry 4 RussW 2 Doug 0 Jeffles -2 JP -4

Zirkus Flohcati (Flea Circus) is one of Marty's new Knizia games. Speaking of which, High Society was Marty's Knizia game (this was erroneously reported last week). The fleas are proving to be popular.

Exxtra is another of Marty's Knizia games, and it uses wacky dice.

Kevin's Automania is cool, but it's a bummer that the rules are unusually unclear about certain things. Despite the rules problems, I want to play it more.

The Big Cheese is good fun fluff from Cheapass, with a high random factor. It seemed to me and Sea Biscuit that you could reasonably play it with no luck at all and get a nice deterministic multiplayer game.

Deadwood is a new Cheapass game where each player is a bit actor at a low budget movie studio. Fun flavor text on the cards. And it seemed more fun than Renfield, the other new Cheapass game, which we played Sunday at Wendy's. Renfield is a cross between poker and trick-taking games, with a Renfield bug-eating background.

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Evening's Soundtrack:

Bauhaus, Burning from the Inside
Black 47, Fire of Freedom
Firestarter (black metal compilation)
Blue Oyster Cult, Fire of Unknown Origin
Porno for Pyros (self-titled)

Again, the common theme was elementary.

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Rank ratings:
 1.0000 JeffF (4 games played)
 0.4545 JonathanC (3)
 0.3810 Marty (5)
 0.3182 Jeffles (6)
 0.2500 JayH (2)
 0.2000 Bob (1)
 0.0714 James (4)
 0.0455 Harry (6)
 0.0345 KevinH (7)
 0.0313 Doug (8)
 0.0000 RussW (8)
 0.0000 Steve (5)
 0.0000 SteveZ (1)
-0.0333 Alfred (8)
-0.1111 JP (8)
-0.2800 WendyWhe (6)
-0.3333 Brady (1)
-0.3750 Clayton (2)
-0.5652 Curt (6)
-0.7500 Jay (3)
-1.0000 Jonobie (2)

New Win ratings:
 1.0000 JeffF (4)
 0.4762 Marty (5)
 0.2105 Steve (5)
 0.1818 JonathanC (3)
 0.1364 Harry (6)
 0.1034 KevinH (7)
 0.0333 RussW (8)
 0.0000 JayH (2)
-0.0400 WendyWhe (6)
-0.0938 Doug (8)
-0.1111 JP (8)
-0.1364 Jeffles (6)
-0.2000 Bob (1)
-0.2500 Clayton (2)
-0.2500 Jay (3)
-0.2500 SteveZ (1)
-0.2609 Curt (6)
-0.2667 Alfred (8)
-0.2857 James (4)
-0.3333 Brady (1)
-0.5000 Jonobie (2)

JeffF is again the Devil, with a perfect streak of 4 won games! Marty and Sea Biscuit are Co-Vice-Devils.

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We'll make great pets.

Russ