EPGS Heroics - December 2002 Year-End Spectacular!

Calling All Hands for EPGS Table-Bearers!

From your Fearless Leader, Bob Hranek.

As you know, we have started to need more table space at our EPGS meetings than the mall's supplied sturdy ten 3'x8' tables. We can get 20 games going simultaneously if we share and everyone keeps their out-of-play stuff off the tables, but this may soon not be enough. EPGS has been granted permission to bring our own extra tables in, but we are not allowed to leave them there under any circumstance. We are proposing buying four 2.5'x6' (Costco) tables for EPGS use, have lots of bodies to help carry them in and permission to use the freight elevator, but are lacking the means to get the tables to all of our meetings.
What EPGS needs is an someone with a minivan/truck (we can't afford to rent vehicles!) to guarantee that these tables will be available if needed at each meeting. Whether this is one person (probably showing up at least 12 times a year) or a group effort is TBD. We don't care how these tables are used away from EPGS, as long as they show up safe and sound at our meetings.
Here's your chance to be a Hero (or at least mentioned in Heroics), become Lord of the Tables, and earn the designation of EPGS Frodo!

Ubercon announcement

We at UberCon would like to invite EPGS members to our inaugural UberCon
gaming convention in New Jersey to be held February 14 - 17, 2003.

UberCon, LLC produces high-quality gaming conventions worldwide to satisfy the increasing demand for in-person competition and social opportunities.
Leveraging our core team's diverse strengths, our focus will be on providing an enjoyable gaming experience to satisfy the growing demands for the gamers of today. We offer a variety of tournaments using computer, console, war and tabletop games, as well as the highly popular trading card games. In addition to this, we supply a friendly, comfortable, and organized venue for customers to play non-competitively with friends as well as strangers.

While initially launching in the New York City area, our objective is to provide world class facilities as a global entity for the purpose of ushering in a new era of unsurpassed excellence in the game convention industry. Our organization bridges the isolation of "real life" enabling people from all ages, walks of life, and locations to meet, socialize and compete with each other in their favorite games.

Sincerely,
Andrea Jagh
Director of Marketing
UberCon, LLC
http://www.ubercon.com

Games People Played

Here is a nearly-complete list of games played at the Novermber 16th meeting.
(and see the following section for the annual summary!)

18AL (Mark Derrick)
Advanced Squad Leader (AH)
Age of Steam (Warfrog)
Axis and Allies (MB)
Axis and Allies - Europe (Hasbro)
Axis and Allies - Pacific (Hasbro)
British Rails (Mayfair)
Cannes (Splotter)
Carcassonne - Hunters and Gatherers (Rio Grande)
Dragon Delta (Descartes)
Guillotine (WOC)
Lord of the Rings - Sauron Expansion (Fantasy Flight)
Citadels - again, for cryin' out loud (Hans Im Gluck)
Paths of Glory (GMT)
Piratenbucht (Amigo)
Puerto Rico (Rio Grande)
Res Publica (Avalanche Press)
Rette Sich Wer Kann (Walter Müller's Spielewerkstatt)
Sid Meier's Civilization (Eagle)
Sternenfahrer (Kosmos)
Tichu (Abacus)
Transamerica (Rio Grande)
Twilight Imperium (Fantasy Flight)
Tyros (Kosmos)
Wilderness War (GMT)

And here's what you've all been waiting for - the summary of games appearing at 2002 Meetings! (total meetings with playings in parenthesis)

Axis and Allies - Pacific (10)
Puerto Rico (8)
Ra (8)
Lord of the Rings CCG (6)
Ohne Furcht und Adel - AKA "Citadels" (6)
Sternenfahrer (6)
Wilderness War (6)
Lord of the Rings (5)
Princes of Florence (5)
Ricochet Robot (5)
Brawl (4)
Prussia's Glory (4)
Star Wars Epic Duels (4)
The Napoleonic Wars (4)
Advanced Squad Leader (3)
Carcassonne (3)
El Grande (3)
Money (3)
Paths of Glory (3)
Piratenbucht (3)
Res Publica (3)
Star Wars - The Queen's Gambit (3)
Starship Catan (3)
Taj Mahal (3)
Vinci (3)
Axis and Allies - Europe (2)
Barbarossa to Berlin (2)
Bohnanza - High Bohne Expansion (2)
Bohnanza - Mutabohn Expansion (2)
Clippers (2)
Empire Builder (2)
Expedition (2)
Formula Motor Racing (2)
Hannibal (2)
Lord of the Rings - Sauron Expansion (2)
Lunar Rails (2)
Mah Jong (2)
Metro (2)
Modern Art (2)
Nippon Rails (2)
Pizzaro and Company (2)
Santa Fe Rails (2)
Settlers of Catan (2)
Sid Meier's Civilization (2)
Tigris and Euphrates (2)
Transamerica (2)
Vom Kap Bis Kairo (2)
Wyatt Earp (2)
1870 (1)
18AL (1)
Acquire (1)
Adel Verplichtet (1)
Advanced Civilization (1)
Age of Steam (1)
Alladin's Dragons (1)
Axis and Allies (1)
Babel (1)
Big City (1)
Big Eyes, Small Mouth (1)
Bohnanza (1)
British Rails (1)
Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1)
Call My Bluff (1)
Cannes (1)
Carcassonne - Hunters and Gatherers (1)
Carcassonne - the Expansion (1)
Chrononauts (1)
Condottiere (1)
Cosmic Encounter (1)
Das Amulet (1)
Democrazy (1)
Draco and Co (1)
Dragon Delta (1)
Dragon's Gold (1)
Drunter und Druber (1)
Eschnapur (1)
Eurorails (1)
Flickwerck (1)
Flower Power (1)
For the People (1)
Fortress America (1)
Frank's Zoo (1)
Fredericksburg (1)
Galaxy (1)
Game of Good Cooking (1)
Giveaway (1)
Guillotine (1)
GUTS Super (1)
History of the World (1)
Hockey One on One Challenge (1)
Kanaloa (1)
Liberte (1)
Lord of the Rings - Friends and Foes Expansion (1)
Lord of the Rings - The Confrontation (1)
Lost Cities (1)
M (1)
Mag Blast (1)
Mage Knights (1)
Mamma Mia (1)
Medici (1)
Meuterer (1)
Mexica (1)
Mystery Meat Mayhem (1)
NFL Showdown (1)
Orcz (1)
Puson Perimeter (1)
Reds (1)
Rette Sich Wer Kann (1)
Roborally (1)
Samurai and Katana (1)
Serenissima (1)
Set (1)
Settlers of Canaan (1)
Settlers of Catan - Cities and Knights (1)
Settlers of Catan - Cities and Knights/Seafarers (1)
Settlers of Catan - Seafarers (1)
Settlers of Catan Card Game (1)
Sleuth (1)
Stalingrad Pocket (1)
Star Wars CCG (1)
Succession (1)
Tales of the Arabian Nights (1)
Talisman (1)
The Grand Alchemist (1)
Thunder's Edge (1)
Tichu (1)
Tikal (1)
Top Secret New Game Project (1)
Torres (1)
Tracks to Tharsis (1)
Trainsport Switzerland (1)
Traumfabrik (1)
Twilight Imperium (1)
Tyros (1)
Union Pacific (1)
Ursuppe (1)
Valley of the Mammoths (1)
Venizia (1)
Volldampf (1)
Wallenstein (1)
Web of Power (1)
Wettstreit der Baumeister (1)
Win, Place and Show (1)
Wizard Kings (1)
Wongar (1)
WWII Minis (1)
Young Jedi (1)

Editor's Note: Some of you might notice the careful wording of the above heading - this is in fact NOT the number of times these games were actually PLAYED, simply the number of meetings they appeared at. This is due to the fact that I have not recorded the data at that level of detail.

For 2003, I plan to keep a more accurate database. I will attempt to record EACH TIME a game is played at EACH meeting. Therefore, if there are 16 games of Puerto Rico played at a particular meeting, there will be 16 entries for that game in the database.

Needless to say, this will involve more work for me. To assist in this process, please consider reporting games played to me, Dave Bohnenberger. (In case you don't know who I am, I'm the fat bald guy. Yes, I know that doesn't narrow it down much). Especially helpful would be to inform me when a game is played multiple times in a sitting. For instance, it's not always apparent to me if players are on their first or fifth game of Puerto Rico. I know some of you already do this and I appreciate it.

I would also appreciate help in recording games played on those rare days when I can't make it. As a DBA I greatly value data integrity.

Here's a publisher total, just because I can do it. Note that this is just as misleading as the above list and for the same reason.

Publishers with games appearing at 2002 EPGS meetings (total meetings with playings in parenthesis):

Rio Grande (58)
Hasbro (28)
GMT (26)
Mayfair (16)
Kosmos (12)
Hans Im Gluck (10)
AH (8)
Fantasy Flight (8)
Amigo (7)
Decipher (7)
Queen (6)
Descartes/Eurogames (5)
WOC (5)
Bob Stribula (4)
Cheapass (4)
? (3)
Adlung (3)
Avalanche Press (3)
Descartes (3)
3M (2)
Abacus (2)
Blue Games (2)
Doris and Frank (2)
Eagle (2)
Gold Sieber (2)
MB (2)
Tilsit (2)
Warfrog (2)
2F (1)
Bambus (1)
Bill Micklow (1)
Cactus (1)
Columbia (1)
Dave Bohnenberger (1)
FX Schmidt (1)
Games Workshop (1)
Guardians of Order (1)
GUTS Gaming (1)
Jared Scarborough (1)
Looney Labs (1)
Mark Derrick (1)
Playoff Corp (1)
Schmidt (1)
Schultze (1)
Set Enterprises (1)
Splotter (1)
The Gamers (1)
TM Spiel (1)
Tom List (1)
Victory (1)
Walter Müller's Spielewerkstatt (1)
West End (1)
Winsome (1)