Bay Area 18xx / SB-Boardgamers

Let’s play 18xx!

When

Second Monday of each month (first meeting 9 February 2009) starting at ~18:30hrs, and then every month after that.

Where

  Yahoo! Inc.
  701 First Avenue
  Sunnyvale, CA 94089

Yahoo! corporate Cafeteria (“URLs”)/SB-Boardgamers. By the bye, we’re expecting multiple people from the North Bay (Layfayette/Oakland/etc) area. Carpooling is a likely possibility.

Directions

Depending on where you are coming from:

• North on 101 to North Mathilda (just before 237 exit, go straight under the overpass and past Moffet on your left)

or

• South on 101 to 237 then exit 237 immediately and turn left onto North Mathilda (go under the overpass)

or

• West on 237 to North Mathilda (just before 101 exit, turn right onto North Mathilda when you see the blue cube at Moffet)

or

• East on 237 to North Mathilda (right after 101 South exit, turn left under the overpass)

Then:

• North on Mathilda to First St/Bordeaux (last light on the straight way)
• Left on First St
• Follow the curve to the right and turn into the Yahoo! parking lot
• Park in Visitor Parking on either side
• Walk away from the guard booth across the round-about
• Go past the fountain and across the grassy quad
• We play in the glass-fronted cafeteria on the other side of the quad

Context

The idea is to play school-night friendly 18xx games (some of us have to get up in the morning!) but with a focus on teaching games and introducing new people to the 18xx hobby. To that end I’ve some games that can easily fit in an evening:

• 1825 (Units 1, 2 and 3, all regionals and kits)
• 1860
• 1889 (we’ve been playing this a lot, great teaching/learning game!)
• 18FL
• 18Mex
• 18Scan
• 18TN

If you’ve games you’d like to play, please bring them! Coordination around what we’ll be playing, who will be attending etc should be done through the SB-Boardgamer‘s mailing list (they meet at the same time and place).