Hey all,
I finally got around to playing Android and it was a lot of fun. At the end looking at the scores and considering what the players were up to and where points game from I was curious about other people's experiences. Below I have some details about my game and I would love to see something similar from other play groups. Even if you only remember your final scores. But other details are welcome like maybe some highlights about what won or lost the game for you. Or what turned the tide on a close game... stuff like that.
3 players:
Louis Blaine --> Final Score: 45 (Me. Yup, the loser!)
Raymond Flint --> Final Score: 77
Caprice Nisei --> Final Score: 95
As the game progressed I thought for sure my guilty hunch was going to work out. And I was pretty sure Caprice's innocent hunch was the same suspect as my guilty hunch. Because We were the only two working this suspect.
Raymond of course could also see all the activity on this suspect and he was able to have him killed! So much for our points there.
Both Caprice and Raymond managed to get a lot of street favor. And they did this because there were 3 links on the conspiracy track leading to street favor.
Louis (Me) was the only one who managed to get my innocent hunch and there were 3 links from the conspiracy that lead to +2 / link for innocent hunches. For some reason the other two players thought for sure this would win the game for. I did score some good points (28 VP) but that was by far my best category.
Louis Blaine:
+05 innocent hunch
+14 personal plot
+28 Conspiracy, 14x2 (3 paths to innocent hunch for +2 VP / link)
-02 Trauma
Raymond Flint: (obsessed)
+15 guilty hunch
+14 personal plot
+44 Street Favor, 4x11 (3 paths to Street Favor for +1 VP / link - 11 total links)
+04 Bonus VP
Caprice Nisei:
+14 personal plot
+66 Street Favor, 6x11(3 paths to Street Favor for +1 VP / link - 11 total links)
+15 Bonus VP (some from major location I forget where how others were earned)
So the winner was Caprice who didn't resolve the murderer or her innocent hunch. But she really did work the conspiracy.
Raymond did well to kill my guilty and Caprices innocent hunch (same suspect). Costing me +15 and Caprice +5 VP.
All of us were secretly chomping at the bit to play cards on each of the others when someone entered a seedy location... but everyone heeded the advice of our characters hint card and did not risk entering seedy location beyond very early turns in the game.
So I was not able to play my dark card that would have cost Raymond all of his normal favor. Had he lost his street favor he would have lost 44 VP and I would have at least come in 2nd!
I found out after that Raymond wanted to play the same effect card on Caprice to cause her to lose her normal favor to put him in the lead! But she didn't enter and seedy locations and she too was safe.
Great game. I look forward to seeing how it changes as we learn it better. And believe me we have a lot of learning to do.
Raymond actually place a secret alibi on his guilty hunch because early on he didn't really understand what it meant! But despite this his guilty suspect was still found to be the most guilty.