My Saturday ended up me playing Twilight Imperium for the first time.
5pl game that took us roughy 6 hours excluding rule explanation and lunch break. As a first timer, the game was a lot of fun and hope to reprise the play in the near future.
As two of us was completely new to this game, the game took some funny turns. I managed to take control of the central area (Mechanon-something) thru assault and was about to do a final blow where I would conquer two systems by attacking two opponents, keeping the central system and gain the last 3 victory points needed to win the game. (A Political card was out allowing the player controlling the central area only 9 vp to win.)
Alas things failed as the player in the lead with Strategy 8 in his turn managed to score multiple victory points ending up at 10 vp win!
I was the blue figures, played a war race called L1zkit-something.
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