Wait, can it be, another post by John finally?

I had someone I met on Saskgames.com over wednesday night to play some games. Brian is his name and Battle Cry was his game...

We started out with a three player game call Days of Steam by Valley Games. It is a light cross between a train game and Carcassonne. The basic premise of the game is to build a track and deliver goods on it. You build the track by laying down tiles from your hand of three. The tiles also have a steam number printed on them as well. This is how mych steam you build up (more on this later). After at least two tiles are laid down you can lie down a city tile as well (citys must be at least two tiles apart). When you complete a connection between two cities you get a circuit marker which is worth one VP (first person to 13 wins). The other thing city tiles do is get two random cubes which you can deliver to a matching city for more vp. The question I know you ahve all been asking is "John, John, how do I move?". Use your legs...

Trains in the game move by expending one steam per tile moved, plus an extra one for hils and another extra one for passing another train. These steam is generated by laying tiles (remember?) and you can only have a maximum of six at any one time.

When you deliver cubes to a city you get 2 vp for each cube you deliver plus you get bonus points for having multiple colours. The game ends immediately when someone gets 13 points or you run out of tiles and steam.

I won both games we played, the second only because Brenda rolled a one on a turn.

Brenda went off to do something else so Brian and I played some Battle Cry. Brian had never played it before so I chose to be nice to him. He crushed me as the Union 6-5 and as the Confederacy 6-4. So I guess I must have been too nice...