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Title: Princess & Dragon League: Dragons
Post by: danisthirty on January 20, 2016, 08:07:03 AM
Dragons:

Please read the following tournament notes/ guidance/ rules before continuing:

1. Players have already been divided into three different groups ("Dragons", "Princesses" and "Fairies"). Each player will play one game of Carcassonne against every other player in their group individually via a series of 2-player/ head-to-head games. The winner of each game will be awarded two league points whereas the loser gets nothing. If the game is tied, both players receive one league point each.

2. Players in each group will be ranked according to the number of league points they have scored. PD (Points Differential) will be used as an initial tie-breaker if there is no clear winner based on league points alone, and total combined score (from all games) will be used as a second tie-breaker if necessary. Your PD is calculated by taking the total number of points scored by you and subtracting the total number of points scored against you (combined across all games).

3. Games will be played online through the latest stable version of JCloisterZone (currently 3.4.2). Please ensure you have downloaded this and are familiar with its controls and features before the competition begins. It is also recommended that you have played at least one practice game against a live opponent (as opposed to a dead one) in order to identify and resolve any technical problems before your first game.

4. JCloisterZone includes a number of artificial aids such as farm hints, projected scores and even tile-counting assistance. I can't stop you from using any of these, and won't know if you do, but I do urge you to play under "exam conditions" as far as possible so that you're relying purely on your own wits, knowledge and experience rather than using anything else to help you. I know it's a competition and we all want to win, but let's keep it fair, fun and friendly as far as possible...

5. Each game will include the basic tiles plus the Princess & Dragon expansion only (no other expansions please). This is 102 tiles including the start tile, so 101 tiles will be shuffled and randomly drawn for you and your opponent in turn. The starting player should be chosen at random through JCZ by selecting the “Randomize seating order” checkbox on the pre-game screen.

6. If any unexpected behaviour occurs during your game (for example if you think you have discovered a bug within JCloisterZone which may have altered the course of the game for you), please consult with your opponent and the CAR/ anyone else who happens to be in the chat room at the time to determine whether it appears to be a genuine bug. If it is, please save your game and post details of the bug along with anything else relating to how it came about on the forums. If however, you and your opponent are both happy to continue with your game despite the bug then feel free to do so, but don’t forget to mention the bug afterwards no matter how minor it may have seemed!

7. Please post a screenshot of your game, including final scores and score breakdown, back to your group thread as soon as your game is complete. It's always interesting to hear what happened during the game too, so please feel free to post any thoughts/ comments at the same time if you wish. If you're not sure how to capture/ post screenshots, please ask on the forums and either myself or someone else will explain how to do this (we're a friendly bunch!)

8. It is the players responsibility to liaise with their fellow group-members in order to find a mutually convenient time to play their game. This is expected to be done predominantly through Private Messages but feel free to use your group thread (here) too if this is easier. Please do keep any appointments you make, or at least give your opponent as much notice as possible if something occurs which prevents you from playing at the agreed time.

9. Each of the 3 initial groups contains 9 players so the first stage of the competition will end when every player (all 27 of us) has played 8 games. At this point, the pool will split into 9 groups of 3 depending on finishing position in the initial groups. So, the top-ranked Dragon, Princess and Fairy will form group D1, and those who came second in each group will form group D2. The same will be true for groups D3 to D9.

10. Play in groups D1 to D9 will constitute the second stage of the competition which will run in the same way as the first except with more groups and fewer people per group. League points, PD and total score will be reset at this point (but remembered for overall stats) so that no single player in any group has any kind of advantage. Finishing positions in groups at the second stage will determine overall rank: 1st=D1-1, 2nd=D1-2, 3rd=D1-3, 4th=D2-1, 5th=D2-2, ..., 23rd=D8-2, 24th=D8-3, 25th=D9-1, 26th=D9-2, 27th=D9-3.

Finally, you may find the following links helpful: Carcassonne Central IRC Chat (http://sydby.com/carcassonne/irc/index.html), JCloisterZone (http://jcloisterzone.com/en/), and this (http://www.mainelypet.com/bonding_bearded_dragon).

The competition is now on! Good luck everyone... :) :(y)
Title: Re: Princess & Dragon League: Dragons
Post by: Hounk on January 20, 2016, 11:11:38 AM
First (?) Dragon Group game:

Valheru vs. Hounk
119:153
Title: Re: Princess & Dragon League: Dragons
Post by: Valheru on January 20, 2016, 11:19:56 AM
So, Hounk and I finished our first tournament game. Attached, you can find the screen of the game.

Score was:
Hounk 153
Valheru 119

Again made some basic errors and lost a big farmbattle, dragon punished me hard twice but in the end it was a well deserved victory for Hounk. He focussed a lot on completing big and small roads and that is something that nullified my bigger score in completing cities. Cloisters almost always came at the wrong time or were used for other purposes so that explains the low score. 

My final tile was a princess and I was able to remove Hounk from the big city, otherwise the loss would have been greater than that.

Has anyone else of you noticed that playing online is probably more frustrating than playing in real life? The amount of curse words I use in an online game is probably a world record or something. Could be me alone of course..

As I said before, good luck with the rest of the tournament Hounk, GGWP. As for me, up to the next battles and hopefully I can grab a win or two in the process.
Title: Re: Princess & Dragon League: Dragons
Post by: jungleboy on January 20, 2016, 12:21:03 PM
Nice write-up Valheru. There's a long way to go in the tournament so I'm sure there will be better times ahead for you! I played a friendly game against Hounk today and he beat me quite easily, so I know the feeling :)
Title: Re: Princess & Dragon League: Dragons
Post by: Valheru on January 20, 2016, 02:56:39 PM
Nice write-up Valheru. There's a long way to go in the tournament so I'm sure there will be better times ahead for you! I played a friendly game against Hounk today and he beat me quite easily, so I know the feeling :)

Apparently not in the following game, but thanks for the positive words.
Title: Re: Princess & Dragon League: Dragons
Post by: Valheru on January 20, 2016, 03:02:28 PM
Game 2 against Rosco.

Rosco: 212
Valheru: 158

Again another heavyweight in the group. Got knocked down by that powerviolence and never got up again. Lost a major city (40p) and it went downhill from that point on. Countered everything I threw at him. Although the dragon was a factor of annoyance, as he (or she?) is every game but that wasn't the biggest issue. Only part I won in, was the roadgame but that's not enough ofcourse.

Positive point is I at least got to share the big farm with Rosco, so that's +1 for my farmgame (okay, +1/2  O0 ) but hey, we have to stay positive. Up to the next and hopefully some points. Lessons have been learned, I tell you that.

Good luck with the next games Rosco, although I'm pretty sure you won't even need that luck  ;)
Title: Re: Princess & Dragon League: Dragons
Post by: Hounk on January 20, 2016, 03:59:36 PM
jma03 vs. Hounk
154:53

Jacobo really crushed me in this one. I put to much resources in the main farm, which in the end was anyway less then 1/3 of the points, I would have needed. Jacobo blocked me very good on that and scored constantly on other features. Forgot the fairy as well on some occasion, which cost me some points. I only was able to tie the farm for most of the game, and he eventually outwon it a few tiles to the end.

Very good game by jma03, less good by me. But it was still fun. Shouldn't drink any wine before important league games and stay more focused next time.
Title: Re: Princess & Dragon League: Dragons
Post by: jma03 on January 20, 2016, 04:03:00 PM



 Shouldn't drink any wine before important league games and stay more focused next time.

hahahahaha :)) :)) :))
Title: Re: Princess & Dragon League: Dragons
Post by: Valheru on January 20, 2016, 04:04:27 PM
Hounk, can you start drinking earlier next time?  ;D
Title: Re: Princess & Dragon League: Dragons
Post by: danisthirty on January 20, 2016, 10:13:22 PM
Hounk, can you start drinking earlier next time?  ;D

Ha ha ha! What's your favourite wine Hounk? Please don't feel too suspicious if a bottle of it arrives on your doorstep on the day we're due to play our game! :D

Well done to Hounk, Rosco and jma03 on your wins so far. And well done to Valheru too, you are to be commended for your enthusiasm! :(y)
Title: Re: Princess & Dragon League: Dragons
Post by: Hounk on January 21, 2016, 03:09:18 AM
Hounk, can you start drinking earlier next time?  ;D
I was actually just relaxing a little bit with some wine while watching your game with Rosco, when suddenly Jacobo arrived, and I got an option to play, I was not expecting anymore.

Be aware, that this is no "excuse" for the loss, and Jacobo would have outplayed me on this game, nevertheless. I just noticed, that I kept forgetting moving the fairy on turns, I didn't move any other wood, while he had her with him. So that indicates for me, that I was not as focused, as I would normally be, and I blame it to the wine. But with 101 points difference, the outcome would have been pretty much the same, even when absolute sober.
Title: Re: Princess & Dragon League: Dragons
Post by: jma03 on January 21, 2016, 04:22:49 AM

It was a pretty tough game.
I had the ability to block two meeples to hounk , to match the main farm.
the 101 -point margin does not reflect much slope, because until the last moment I could get my hands on the whole farm .
I would like to do more starting summaries , but my English and the translator google certain words can be misinterpreted .
 :-X
Title: Re: Princess & Dragon League: Dragons
Post by: Hounk on January 21, 2016, 04:54:50 AM
In the end, you outwon the farm, because you were able to block three of my farmers, while I was only able to do that with two of yours. But this was not game deciding. Even, if I would have got the farm for my own, you would have won by 41 points.

The first 1/3 of the game was pretty balanced, but then you started slowly to make more and more points, particularly on cities, while I was relatively week on meeple supply and could not compete with that. I got quite a lot of CFFF and CCFF splitter tiles in the beginning, so most of my cities had been for 4 points. This encouraged me to go for the field as well quite early, probably to early, especially since I was not able to close the field on the outside, and you had enough supply to fight back.

For quite a long time, one of my monks was sitting on an 8 point cloister (got eaten by dragon later in the game, too late to be precise), and a thief on a road, which finally did give me 9 points. Both in the bottom centre of the picture, one close to the other. I think, if this two had been freed earlier, or never been placed, I would have got a chance to get back into the game.
Title: Re: Princess & Dragon League: Dragons
Post by: jma03 on January 21, 2016, 06:28:54 AM
true¡¡¡¡
 :(y)

this afternoon if there is someone available for a league game will be ready
Title: Re: Princess & Dragon League: Dragons
Post by: ny1050220 on January 21, 2016, 09:04:01 AM
Is everyone else in Europe? I'm in EST, and it's now noon here. I believe the forum is 3 hours after me, if that helps.
I'm usually free after 7pm local time and I guess that's not very helpful in arranging a game with those who are in Europe. I can also do any time between 9am and 1am at weekends. This Sunday is not clear yet, as I might need to drop off my housemate at the airport. When I know more, I'll post.
So, let me know if anyone finds a time, and especially if anyone is in the Americas.
Title: Re: Princess & Dragon League: Dragons
Post by: aenima on January 21, 2016, 10:33:35 AM
hello to all! :)
I can start to play only from next moonday (work problems).
Teorically I can play in the morning from 10:00 to 13:00 and the evening from 21:00 to 00:00.
I'm in Belgium.
Good luk to all!  ;D
Title: Re: Princess & Dragon League: Dragons
Post by: Rosco on January 21, 2016, 11:53:45 AM
I will be available in 30 mins.  At about 8:30 gmt
Title: Re: Princess & Dragon League: Dragons
Post by: Hounk on January 22, 2016, 01:31:02 AM
I will be available tonight around 10:30 CET.
Title: Re: Princess & Dragon League: Dragons
Post by: ny1050220 on January 22, 2016, 06:27:28 AM
I will be available tonight around 10:30 CET.
Free until 22.30 CET or not until 22.30?
Title: Re: Princess & Dragon League: Dragons
Post by: Hounk on January 22, 2016, 09:33:00 AM
The later. Might be, I'll be in chat a little bit earlier, but not by much.
Title: Re: Princess & Dragon League: Dragons
Post by: ny1050220 on January 22, 2016, 10:26:35 AM
The later. Might be, I'll be in chat a little bit earlier, but not by much.
Good to know. I'll be in the chat room 3 hrs from now.
Title: Re: Princess & Dragon League: Dragons
Post by: Rosco on January 22, 2016, 10:44:12 AM
Me too I think
Title: Re: Princess & Dragon League: Dragons
Post by: Rosco on January 22, 2016, 01:43:57 PM
That was such a close game!!!

I just Played NY and it kept on changing who was ahead.  I am rubbish at big write ups but suffice it to say that It could have gone either way as I think that in the end we had fairly even tiles and we both played more or less equally well.

Here is the screen shot!
Title: Re: Princess & Dragon League: Dragons
Post by: ny1050220 on January 22, 2016, 03:10:57 PM
That was such a close game!!!

I just Played NY and it kept on changing who was ahead.  I am rubbish at big write ups but suffice it to say that It could have gone either way as I think that in the end we had fairly even tiles and we both played more or less equally well.

Here is the screen shot!
I did make a terrible mistake with my last tile though. It was an intense game!
Title: Re: Princess & Dragon League: Dragons
Post by: ny1050220 on January 22, 2016, 03:12:00 PM
Here's my game with Hounk.
Title: Re: Princess & Dragon League: Dragons
Post by: jma03 on January 22, 2016, 04:13:28 PM
Jacobo 173- Ross 132
here my game with Ross. It was an intense and tight game until I could close a castle of 30 points thanks to the action of the dragon. Ross and I were competing for the farms.
. Both thought we lacked a monastery , where they could be attached to the main farmhouse , but that never came monastery was discarded since the beginning of the game ( there was no choice of place ) .
Title: Re: Princess & Dragon League: Dragons
Post by: kettlefish on January 23, 2016, 06:54:28 AM
Here comes the x-score list - CarcC-A-Dragons 23 01 2016:
Title: Re: Princess & Dragon League: Dragons
Post by: quevy on January 23, 2016, 09:24:39 AM
Hello to all, and good luck to all the dragons, I think I have a couple of hours from now to make a game, if someone wants.
Title: Re: Princess & Dragon League: Dragons
Post by: Merlin_89 on January 23, 2016, 02:55:16 PM
I kicked off my games in League!

 :yellow-meeple: Merlin_89 150-95 Hounk  :green-meeple:

Quite competitive game, closer than score says.

I scored smaller stuff, lots of middle cities, roads. From the get go, we rushed for farmer's game - field looked very promising and it was main point of attention throughout the game. Second important thing was Hounk's big city on the right side, I did a lot to prevent it from completing: princess - but he returned to it immediately! I limited it's chances to be completed. In the end, friendly dragon finished my vendetta for me. Key moment was locking Hounk's farmer in the cage of 3 point farm... it gave me safe adavantage of one meeple and it was enough for me to play quite peacufully till the end.
Title: Re: Princess & Dragon League: Dragons
Post by: jma03 on January 24, 2016, 07:13:21 AM
i'll be on the chat room 2 hours from now
 :D
Title: Re: Princess & Dragon League: Dragons
Post by: quevy on January 24, 2016, 10:32:45 AM
This evening I have time for a game or two, are chatting but I could not look at it very, send a pm, so I can see even from mobile devices and do not have to be necessarily the desktop computer.
Title: Re: Princess & Dragon League: Dragons
Post by: Merlin_89 on January 24, 2016, 12:03:54 PM
Another game is past me...

 :yellow-meeple: Merlin_89 203-135 Quevy  :green-meeple:

This one was tough cookie. Quevy had good luck with volcanos and dragons, my farmers couldn't stay for too long and I had to scramble - a lot! I scored more middle sized cities and 3 cloisters and it made the final difference.
Title: Re: Princess & Dragon League: Dragons
Post by: quevy on January 24, 2016, 12:31:49 PM
You're a great player, I can not say any more.
I have always been a problem to get the tiles to unlock my followers, I never arrive, as opposed to what they say statistical probabilities.
Thou hast received all, I did not want to risk too much and you have increased a lot the distance.
Title: Re: Princess & Dragon League: Dragons
Post by: Merlin_89 on January 24, 2016, 01:39:59 PM
And another one...

 :yellow-meeple: 173 Merlin_89 - Rosco 153  :red-meeple:

Ok, that one I could easilly loose. It was a close one. Rosco was always only few points behind me, and he had good prospects with his ventures. I had upper hand, because I mannaged to block few of his meeples. In the end smart movement by dragon helped me to get Rosco's city and farm. 
Title: Re: Princess & Dragon League: Dragons
Post by: aenima on January 25, 2016, 04:42:00 AM
Hello! I can play now until 16:00.
I'm in the chatroom...
Title: Re: Princess & Dragon League: Dragons
Post by: Valheru on January 25, 2016, 05:29:14 AM
Hello! I can play now until 16:00.
I'm in the chatroom...
On my way!
Title: Re: Princess & Dragon League: Dragons
Post by: danisthirty on January 25, 2016, 06:20:19 AM
I hope to be available and in the chat room from about 8 o'clock this evening (UK time). Please drop me a PM (or just post here) if any other dragons are likely to be free at the same time... :)
Title: Re: Princess & Dragon League: Dragons
Post by: aenima on January 25, 2016, 06:36:37 AM
I hope to be available and in the chat room from about 8 o'clock this evening (UK time). Please drop me a PM (or just post here) if any other dragons are likely to be free at the same time... :)

Dan you never answer me about the tiles...  ???
Title: Re: Princess & Dragon League: Dragons
Post by: danisthirty on January 25, 2016, 06:37:26 AM
I hope to be available and in the chat room from about 8 o'clock this evening (UK time). Please drop me a PM (or just post here) if any other dragons are likely to be free at the same time... :)

Dan you never answer me about the tiles...  ???

You're right. I didn't. Expect a PM...
Title: Re: Princess & Dragon League: Dragons
Post by: aenima on January 25, 2016, 06:39:40 AM
Aenima Vs. Valheruu   =   197  Vs.  182

a great game... vary close game!
and I had luck with the last tiles!
:)
Title: Re: Princess & Dragon League: Dragons
Post by: Valheru on January 25, 2016, 06:40:28 AM
Aenima 197
Valheru 182

Not even sure how I lost this one. My farmgame was on point, lost the citybattle heavily, although I did enough to prevent it. Bit of bad luck.  My last tile was a ffrr, while Aenima had a ccff with a princess on it (upper top-tile on the left). If I had that one, I could have connected the main farm (being mine) and his 12 point farm top. Think I'd probably won then.. Very tense but frustrating game in the end. Still looking for my first win and I have a feeling I won't get any closer than this.

Great game Aenima, good luck with the rest of the tournament.
Title: Re: Princess & Dragon League: Dragons
Post by: aenima on January 25, 2016, 06:40:50 AM
I hope to be available and in the chat room from about 8 o'clock this evening (UK time). Please drop me a PM (or just post here) if any other dragons are likely to be free at the same time... :)

Dan you never answer me about the tiles...  ???

You're right. I didn't. Expect a PM...

no prob! only I can't send you my signed tlie if you don't tell me what you need :)
Title: Re: Princess & Dragon League: Dragons
Post by: Valheru on January 25, 2016, 08:12:23 AM
Jma (Jacobo): 165
Valheru: 139

Not much to say. Two things decided the game: Jacobo brilliant move with the dragon to annihilate my second meeple on the middle farm and win it (it was closed down before). Next thing was the cloisters. He had every single one of them. Never saw anything like it. Tough defeat, but my compliments for the game and that one move in particular.

Good luck with the rest of the tournament!
Title: Re: Princess & Dragon League: Dragons
Post by: Merlin_89 on January 25, 2016, 01:46:17 PM
I have played very intense game against Dan (we have history of those)!

 :yellow-meeple: Merlin_89 151 - 101 Danisthirty  :blue-meeple:

Another game with this ever growing farm that dominates whole way of playing... A lot was happening but playing knights, thieves, and monks was only a break from farm game. Dragon played big role in it (which is obvious), but I'm quite proud of the way I moved him.

Dan played neck and neck, and he went ahead with farmers at the beginning. But then I went into farmers frenzy and built dominance there. In the end, big farm is crowded by 10 meeples (6:4)!

Title: Re: Princess & Dragon League: Dragons
Post by: kettlefish on January 25, 2016, 01:54:39 PM
Here comes the x-score list - CarcC-A-Dragons 25 01 2016:
Title: Re: Princess & Dragon League: Dragons
Post by: Valheru on January 25, 2016, 03:18:31 PM
Merlin, you really had all 7 meeples on the farmgame. That's insane haha. Had to be a nice game, surely!
Title: Re: Princess & Dragon League: Dragons
Post by: ny1050220 on January 25, 2016, 04:55:51 PM
Here my game with jma03
It was hard! And I'm taking it hard.
Well I enjoyed it.
All in all, Jacobo is a very skillful player.
Title: Re: Princess & Dragon League: Dragons
Post by: danisthirty on January 26, 2016, 03:49:48 AM
:yellow-meeple: Merlin_89 151 - 101 Danisthirty  :blue-meeple:

It’s fairly often that someone (usually the winner) will comment after a game that the final scores weren’t necessarily representative of how close the game was. However, in this case they certainly were and losing by a full lap of the scoretrack was about the best I could have hoped for!

I started off OK and put a few farmers down early to give myself a good chance of keeping the main farm even after the dragon had inevitably removed a few of them. Merlin didn’t fight back especially ferociously at this point, but certainly stayed in touch with the farm despite winning a few cities elsewhere and building a good lead over me in the process. I knew I needed to level the scores a bit whilst maintaining overall control of the farm, and so took a few risks to generate some quick points. Merlin took advantage of this well and trapped one of my knights in a city that I hadn’t been able to close. In most cases, the tiles I needed weren’t especially rare ones at that stage of the game, but they just didn’t come whereas Merlin seemed to be grabbing points left, right and centre... :(

But despite being behind (quite considerably by this point), the main farm was still pretty valuable and I’d managed to hold onto that for most of the game so there was still hope. I was very much outgunned in terms of spare meeples though, and as I struggled to hold on until the tiles had run out Merlin attacked the farm from all angles and seemed to join his farmers on with ease. Before long I was two farmers behind (4 against 6!) but with my trapped knight and a monk that I shouldn’t have placed, I only had one meeple left to play with and couldn’t draw what I needed to get him onto the farm too. >:(

I didn’t feel like very much from the Princess & Dragon expansion had a huge effect on the game. Despite Merlin taking his time to think through a number of dragon movement phases, the dragon mostly went hungry (especially when I was trying to free my own trapped meeples) and the princess must have been wearing the wrong type of perfume as she didn’t do a lot of luring either. The fairy was used quite well by both of us I felt; I’d guess the discrepancy between our fairy point scores was mostly down to the fact that Merlin completed more features than I did and was usually able to move the fairy at the same time for the 3 bonus points.

Anyway, petty complaining aside, I can’t take anything away from Merlin for the great game he played. It was a lot like our last game in that it felt like he was in control from start to finish and made everything he did seem easy. Well done to you, and good luck with the rest of the competition! :) :(y)
Title: Re: Princess & Dragon League: Dragons
Post by: Hounk on January 26, 2016, 10:18:31 AM
I'd probably be up to one late game tonight around 11pm CET, in case somebody else from the group is interested.
Title: Re: Princess & Dragon League: Dragons
Post by: Valheru on January 26, 2016, 10:34:15 AM
I'll be online for a few hours from now on as well.
Title: Re: Princess & Dragon League: Dragons
Post by: Valheru on January 26, 2016, 01:05:01 PM
So, next game!

Merlin: 192
Valheru: 148

Not sure how Merlin feels about this, but a difference of 44 points seems a bit harsh to me. I took the lead at 25 tiles to the end of the game, and lost it a few tiles afterwards. Meepleshortage hit me hard because I was focussing on the farms and 2 cloisters were pretty much blocked by Merlin. Dragon was brutal, especially for Merlin during the game, besides a meeple or two on my part.

Tough game to lose, but nonetheless deserved it in the end. Good luck with the rest of the tournament Merlin, you're on a roll ;)
Title: Re: Princess & Dragon League: Dragons
Post by: Merlin_89 on January 26, 2016, 01:18:22 PM
Yes, Valheruu is right... and it's not empty words. I couldn't play my game this time, he constantly ate my meeples...!

I made mistake and he scored left city with 4 pennants, I missed my chance to join there. Valheruu led when he completed that one. And if you look closer, he could won big farm on the bottom with simple RRFF and then score could be much different (I could equal there for 3-3, but still). Thankfully his meepleshortage allowed me to score everythere during last 20 tiles - it rescued me.
Title: Re: Princess & Dragon League: Dragons
Post by: danisthirty on January 27, 2016, 05:54:01 AM
I'm hoping to be available for a game from about 8 o'clock this evening (UK time). Please drop me a PM or simply meet me in the chat room if you're free! :)
Title: Re: Princess & Dragon League: Dragons
Post by: jma03 on January 28, 2016, 02:54:43 AM
Here my game with jma03
It was hard! And I'm taking it hard.
Well I enjoyed it.
All in all, Jacobo is a very skillful player.
beatiful game,
ny was ahead on the scoreboard 20 puntos to close the castle.

I could not develop my game, because every step I did was blocked by ny.

it was becoming more difficult to acquire the main property , so opt to close small things .
tiles last decided the game.
very tight result could fall on either side.

thank you very much for the game and good luck for the rest of the competition.
Title: Re: Princess & Dragon League: Dragons
Post by: Valheru on January 28, 2016, 11:47:51 AM
Anyone up for a game tonight? I'll be in the chatroom for an hour or two.
Title: Re: Princess & Dragon League: Dragons
Post by: Valheru on January 28, 2016, 01:09:44 PM
Valheru: 135
Danisthirty: 123

I can't really believe it but I WON, I actually won! But what a close game it was, with me being the very very very lucky winner. I was in desperate meepleshortage when the battle for the farm exploded in all out war. Dan was so good in blocking my meeples (even sacrificing one of his in the process!) so it was really difficult to get out these situations. My luck first turned when I managed to complete a city which gave me one feeble meeple back.

After that it was kind of an avalanche of luck for me with the gamechanger being Dan who drew a dragontile but didn't notice it and choose to complete a city with it, ignoring the fairy. If I'm not mistaken that happened with around 15 tiles remaining! The following dragonhunt was brutal beyond measure with 2 farmers (all Dan's) being eaten. An attempt to clutch some points in the end with big unfinished cities proved very close but just not enough to turn the tables.  The result stood, and I'm writing down my first victory in the history of my membership at Carcassonne Central.

I can only say that Dan is a fantastic player and it took most of all luck to beat him. Hope to see you soon on the battlefield again and good luck with the rest of the tournament!

Title: Re: Princess & Dragon League: Dragons
Post by: danisthirty on January 28, 2016, 01:39:05 PM
I can't really complain about this game as I got more than my fair share of luck for the first two thirds of it and then kind of threw it away with just 15 tiles to go. I was blinded by the fact that I could complete a city for a whopping 6 points ::) and as such deployed a meeple rather than doing the sensible thing and moving the fairy to defend my farmers (more through stupidity than cockyness). My failure to do so cost me one farmer, and before I'd even had the chance to dry my eyes Valheru had drawn another dragon tile and finished off another farmer. So with 12 tile to go, the farm had gone from 4 - 4 to 4 - 2 and I had some catching up to do. With the meeples that Valheru had so kindly returned to me, I took some chances trying to connect back to the main farm and got one on with ease. The other remained seperate though, so Valheru won the main farm outright for... 42 points! >:(

Despite this, I don't feel like Valheru did himself justice in his write-up. It's always tough to keep on playing when you're behind on meeples as well as points but he hung on in there and made the most of what he had when he could. Drawing the cfrr when he did completed his city and gave him a meeple back which really put him back in the game ("Absence makes the meeple grow stronger"?) and kept the fight for the farm alive. He also played exceptionally well with the dragon and certainly made sure I was punished for my earlier mistake so late in the game. So, all in all, don't put it all down to luck Valheru, you played an excellent game and deserved the win! :) :(y)

* Be sure to look out for a used copy of The Princess & Dragon expansion in this years Spare Bits Giveaway * :@
Title: Re: Princess & Dragon League: Dragons
Post by: Merlin_89 on January 29, 2016, 12:46:18 AM
Dan, I totally understand your pain... These sort of thing happens to all Carcassonne players (when it happens to me I call it utter mindblinding greediness for quick points).

Congrats to Valheru for your first win! You kept being close to Dan, and you used his mistake - this is also the way to play this game.

Ok, after your game, Jacobo came and we had our game...

 :yellow-meeple: Merlin_89 151 - 137 Jacobo  :red-meeple:

I swear, those games keep getting harder! Jacobo was ahead of me by around 20-sth points whole first half. He just kept scoring, I tried to block, but he was getting the right tiles. There was glimmer of hope for me, I had little investment from the get go, unfinished city in middle, I needed simple CRFR, and it was frustrating because those tiles weren't coming! In the meantime I closed the score gap, I remember that at some point Jacobo completely stopped scoring, and I was adding points. I managed to block his bottom city, and made his few meeples hard to retrieve. Dragon was helpful and he managed to avoid my precious farmers. When I got CRFR, I finally went to lead! From that point we fought for farms, they are small, but they decided the winner. It was long game, we played for an 1 hour and a half...
Title: Re: Princess & Dragon League: Dragons
Post by: Merlin_89 on January 29, 2016, 01:12:31 AM
Problematic thing was that I had made prior arrangment to play with ny1050220 after midnight... Jacobo exhausted me, but it's hard to schedule a game across the Atlantic so... more Carcassonne for me!

 :yellow-meeple: Merlin_89 159 - 87 ny1050220  :blue-meeple:

I was so lucky in that game, everything came my way from the get go! But game started with sth I prefer to avoid when playing this expansion, battle for big city. As usual at those cases princess shook things up... I threw ny from the city, I just needed CCCF or CCCR to complete it, I got it very quickly and it awarded to me 24 points. In the process I manged to block his 2 meeples next to my city (he planned to use them to sneak into the city). I knew that I just need to keep the leverage, but it was so early in the game. He was low on meeples, but he started to get scoring 4citypointers like crazy (those on the bottom)! Suddenly that farm started to become game defining thing, I knew that I couldn't allow that to fall into ny's hand. But it was a gamble, there was like 6 farmers on very small area and the DRAGON, it was crazy, ny kept getting volcano tiles, I got most of dragon tiles, it helped me, in the end I scored the farm!

We played fairly quickly, it took us half an hour to finish... I have one game to play.
Title: Re: Princess & Dragon League: Dragons
Post by: jma03 on January 29, 2016, 04:55:20 AM
Dan, I totally understand your pain... These sort of thing happens to all Carcassonne players (when it happens to me I call it utter mindblinding greediness for quick points).

Congrats to Valheru for your first win! You kept being close to Dan, and you used his mistake - this is also the way to play this game.

Ok, after your game, Jacobo came and we had our game...

 :yellow-meeple: Merlin_89 151 - 137 Jacobo  :red-meeple:

I swear, those games keep getting harder! Jacobo was ahead of me by around 20-sth points whole first half. He just kept scoring, I tried to block, but he was getting the right tiles. There was glimmer of hope for me, I had little investment from the get go, unfinished city in middle, I needed simple CRFR, and it was frustrating because those tiles weren't coming! In the meantime I closed the score gap, I remember that at some point Jacobo completely stopped scoring, and I was adding points. I managed to block his bottom city, and made his few meeples hard to retrieve. Dragon was helpful and he managed to avoid my precious farmers. When I got CRFR, I finally went to lead! From that point we fought for farms, they are small, but they decided the winner. It was long game, we played for an 1 hour and a half...

I have little to add to the description that has made merli89 game .
I knew I had a big challenge against the "player of fashion",  warrior and invincible merlin89 .
It was very even to save a house from which I was expelled by the princess ( he needed CRFR ).We are fighting for the farm , but they were small
and the dragon had little to do.
Happy with the game and deserved victory of merlin.

 P.D:I would like to add that I have learned one thing i did not know of this expansion:
there are 6 tiles "magical site"
that allows you to place a follower on that piece of territory or any other that has been placed before.
as long as the rules are respected.
from now on I will take advantage of these tiles
if I'm not the only one who did not know, note that is interesting 8)

next time I am clear that besides practicing in friendly games,i
read the rules up and down ;D ;D


Title: Re: Princess & Dragon League: Dragons
Post by: aenima on January 29, 2016, 05:36:40 AM
I can play now... I'm in the chattroom
Title: Re: Princess & Dragon League: Dragons
Post by: danisthirty on January 29, 2016, 05:38:21 AM
I can play now... I'm in the chattroom

I'm at work now so won't be able to play, sorry.

If anyone else has a free evening on Saturday I will be able to play then...
Title: Re: Princess & Dragon League: Dragons
Post by: Rosco on January 29, 2016, 06:12:29 AM
Me too - i can play now!
Title: Re: Princess & Dragon League: Dragons
Post by: kettlefish on January 29, 2016, 10:17:57 AM
jma03 - please post the screenshot of your game with aenima.
Title: Re: Princess & Dragon League: Dragons
Post by: kettlefish on January 29, 2016, 11:03:16 AM
Here comes the x-score list - CarcC-A-Dragons 29 01 2016:

This x-score list has not the result of the game jma03 against aenima, because I don't know the score. I only know that jma03 has won the game.
 
Title: Re: Princess & Dragon League: Dragons
Post by: Hounk on January 29, 2016, 01:25:27 PM
I'm in chat right now
Title: Re: Princess & Dragon League: Dragons
Post by: Rosco on January 29, 2016, 02:58:20 PM
Wow - what a game - a real game of 2 halves!

The first half Hounk and I were neck and neck, with literally 2 or 3 points between us.  Every substantial city was shared and even the roads were shared.  Hounk began his farm campaign and I reacted to his placements trying but not succeeding to match his farmers.  He was in control of the farm and I was too committed elsewhere to really contest his control until.....

Step in the dragon from stage left.  The dragon was actually on the board from about the 3rd tile but it didnt do much damage until half way through.  At this point I managed to devour one of hounks farmers and one of his Knights in the big city in one foul swoop.  This left the big city in my control with one RFCR tile to complete and no way for Hounk to change that unless he could get the dragon to gobble me up.  I avoided being dragon food and completed a large city t take a substantial lead.

Then to focus on the farm - hounk still had control but I had managed to create 2 smaller farms which could be connected to the main farm by a single cloister with road.  When I got this cloister it left me with a small decision to make.  My 2 farms added up to 18 points, Hounks farm added up to 18 points as well.  If i joined the farms, we would have 3 farmers each and a total of 24 points but with the risk that he could add one farmer and take the lot.  The thing that swung it for me was that by joining the farms I got a completed straight in and out cloister too so an extra 9 points.

This did prompt further attempts by hounk to get another farmer or 2 but to no avail and with the addition of another one of my farmers and me eating one of Hounks, unfortunately he basically had no chance for a come back.

Thankyou Hounk for a great game.  I think I was quite lucky with the tiles in the second half and you put up a good fight.

Title: Re: Princess & Dragon League: Dragons
Post by: Valheru on January 29, 2016, 03:49:32 PM
Really high city score, I must say!
Title: Re: Princess & Dragon League: Dragons
Post by: jma03 on January 29, 2016, 04:22:07 PM
Aenima 154-Jacobo 159
Very even game from start to finish.
It started well with the domain of the farms , but aenima he managed very well to take away half of the farms ( 2-1).

Until 6 last tile was all for decided, each had 2 meeples and this decided the small margin of the game.
the last tile Aenima was not good as it was a volcano tile.


It was a slow game because there were times when I thought more time and possibly the account is not in good taste to my opponent.
so I apologize to aenima for it.

I wonder if  could see the option for future competitions have time player control similar to that used in chess to be in the same conditions.

what you think about this guys?

Title: Re: Princess & Dragon League: Dragons
Post by: quevy on January 31, 2016, 08:57:24 AM
I won my match against Ny1050220.
It was a great game, maybe I have been helped more by luck, the battle was for the fields was lively.
Title: Re: Princess & Dragon League: Dragons
Post by: aenima on January 31, 2016, 09:22:46 AM
hellooo there!
now I'm at home and I can play... soooo... I'll be in the chatroom!
Title: Re: Princess & Dragon League: Dragons
Post by: aenima on January 31, 2016, 10:12:01 AM
Aenima Vs NY1050220  -  150 Vs 89

quick game... I like more a game like this!
I was really lucky with many tiles! expecially at the end!
anyway... good game NY! :)
Title: Re: Princess & Dragon League: Dragons
Post by: kettlefish on January 31, 2016, 10:58:32 AM
Here comes the x-score list - CarcC-A-Dragons 31 01 2016:
Title: Re: Princess & Dragon League: Dragons
Post by: Merlin_89 on January 31, 2016, 12:26:20 PM
I did it! I finished group stage...

 :yellow-meeple: Merlin_89 140-115 Aenima  :black1-meeple:

Very chaotic game for me. Lots depended on it and I was nervous. Aenima played good so I had to work hard and scramble a lot to win it. He started good, he pushed me from my first city with princess, and suddenly he was in possesion of 2 major cities. I went for farm, bo so did he, and with help of dragon he went from tie 2-2 to lead 2-0. I went for cloister strategy, but I managed to complete only one, but other 3 played counterbalance to my deficits in other areas. I was saved by my blocking! I limited aenima's chances to score bigger in cities.

Title: Re: Princess & Dragon League: Dragons
Post by: danisthirty on January 31, 2016, 12:49:05 PM
Congratulations Merlin_89 on finishing the group so quickly. And well done on your record too: 8 wins from 8 games! I look forward to seeing how it goes for you in the second stage of the competition against the winners of the other two groups. Good luck! :) :(y)
Title: Re: Princess & Dragon League: Dragons
Post by: Rosco on January 31, 2016, 01:10:42 PM
Nice one Merlin!  Unbeaten! !!!
Title: Re: Princess & Dragon League: Dragons
Post by: jma03 on January 31, 2016, 02:20:53 PM
WOW Merlin!!!! 8 vs 8 Congratulation


your results are impressive, merit for you
Title: Re: Princess & Dragon League: Dragons
Post by: Hounk on February 01, 2016, 11:09:04 AM
Amazing achievement! Congratulations, Merlin. :(y)

I'll be available for a game later tonight. Around 10:45 pm CET, if somebody want to have a league game that late.
Title: Re: Princess & Dragon League: Dragons
Post by: Hounk on February 01, 2016, 11:44:21 AM
So turned out, I'll be here even earlier. Wanted to go to a movie, but it was booked out.
Title: Re: Princess & Dragon League: Dragons
Post by: Hounk on February 01, 2016, 01:45:23 PM
aenima vs. Hounk
129:159

Finally, a second win for me in this group. I was very lucky with the tiles, though. Considering, I trapped two of aenimas meeple very early on a 4p road and in a 6p city (my 7p monk, I placed really late through portal, when I was sure, I had enough meeples to spare for the end game), I feel, 30 points in the end isn't a lot. Fist volcano tile came very late in the game, but then aenima swept a lot of my farmers from the main 18p farm. I got very lucky to get at least one back, taking the risk to make the joining likely with a volcano tile. Luckily, I soon afterwards got a second volcano, to get the dragon away from my preciouse farmer. The second farm, worth 15p was tied at some time, too, but I luckily draw the two last dragon tiles, enabling me to feed aenimas farmer to the dragon and rescuing mine with the fairy. The outcome on this two farms finally won me the game.

Very well, though unluckily played, aenima!
Title: Re: Princess & Dragon League: Dragons
Post by: danisthirty on February 02, 2016, 02:11:53 AM
danisthirty :blue-meeple: - 210 : 139 - :red-meeple: Rosco

(http://www.dan.tehill.net/Rosco_Dan_PandD.jpg)

Finally a win for me! Not much I can say about the game other than that I got off to a rocky start and didn't have the chance to place anything until my 3rd turns as I drew volcanoes on my first 2. Other than this, it was a bit like one of those stories where someone raises an orphaned Tiger cub and then releases it into the wild years later only to go back and visit it and discover that it still remembers him and they play together etc. In this case, the dragon mistook me for whoever raised it and was only too willing to do my evil bidding. Poor Rosco. Sorry mate.
Title: Re: Princess & Dragon League: Dragons
Post by: Valheru on February 02, 2016, 05:40:01 AM
I actually laughed out loud because of that description.
Title: Re: Princess & Dragon League: Dragons
Post by: Rosco on February 02, 2016, 03:16:36 PM
I didn't laugh.  Believe me.  I owe Dan an apology for my bad language.   I was a little annoyed at my ineptitude.  I was playing a gamble based on the idea that there was a cloister with road left in the bag.   Therefore i played my while game matching dans farmers thinking i had a 50/50 chance of getting an extra one in.   Until 10 tiles before the end i noticed that all FFFR had already been laid and I had just not noticed it.   It was easily the most annoyed i have been playing carcassonne.   It was a flip the table moment.   Had it been a real life game, there would have been tiles,  meeples, and dragons everywhere.

Dan played well which caused further pain.

Title: Re: Princess & Dragon League: Dragons
Post by: danisthirty on February 03, 2016, 05:57:50 AM
...I owe Dan an apology for my bad language...

So many words I'd never heard before! My poor, innocent ears... O:-)
Title: Re: Princess & Dragon League: Dragons
Post by: Hounk on February 03, 2016, 10:45:59 AM
I'm in chat now. Would love it, if I get my game with dan and/or quevy running tonight.
Title: Re: Princess & Dragon League: Dragons
Post by: danisthirty on February 03, 2016, 02:19:13 PM
I'm in chat now. Would love it, if I get my game with dan and/or quevy running tonight.

Your wish is my command! O:-)

(http://www.dan.tehill.net/Hounk_Dan_PandD_scores.jpg)

(http://www.dan.tehill.net/Hounk_Dan_PandD_map.jpg)

I was very wary going into this game as I don't have a great record against Hounk and I know just how creative/ dangerous he can be when it comes to getting farmers onto farms! Fortunately however, things seemed to go my way from the start and after being gifted a 4-point city and then a 14 point city (+3 for the fairy) I had gotten into quite a strong position which I managed to hold onto for most of the game.

I didn't put up much of a fight for a the farm at first but held onto a healthy supply of meeples and claimed safe points whenever I had the option. Hounk was playing a more dangerous game and presented me with several opportunities to trap him, but then drew the tiles he needed to escape whenever I was within striking distance. He did his fair share of trapping too though, and for a long time I was one meeple down when he trapped a thief of mine for 5 points. Eventually I was able to reclaim him with a little help from my fiery friend although Hounk worked very hard to stop me from doing this and ensured that several attempts ended just one tile short!

Things got interesting once I'd started to make a play for the farm. I didn't necessarily want it outright, but it was obvious that an equal share in it would be necessary if I wanted to stand any chance of winning the game. The first farmer I joined was my most vulnerable to dragon attack for the duration of the game but the tiles were on my side in this respect and I drew possibly all of the volcanoes which ensured I could keep him safe. My second farmer joined the farm within a few tiles of being placed which is always nice, and I almost managed to forget about joining my third but plopped him on with a cfff just as Hounk was beginning to run me out of options for him. The net result was that the farm ended up being tied, and two of Hounks subsequent attempts to win it outright were blocked (although one of them wasn't entirely blocked and could have made it onto the farm if Hounk had placed the crcr tile elsewhere).

With the end in sight and with two meeples in hand compared to Hounk's zero, things were definitely looking favourable for me despite Hounk's mega city that seemed to grow at an alarming rate despite being impossible to complete. I made an attempt to win the farm outright (which didn't work) and used my other meeple to claim whatever I could as and when I had the opportunity. Fortunately this was just enough to maintain a safe margin between us.

Thanks for the game Hounk, that was a tough one! :o :(y)
Title: Re: Princess & Dragon League: Dragons
Post by: Jéré on February 04, 2016, 02:17:55 AM

I'm in chat now. Would love it, if I get my game with dan and/or quevy running tonight.

Your wish is my command! O:-)

You should have asked Dan to let you win! ;)
Title: Re: Princess & Dragon League: Dragons
Post by: danisthirty on February 04, 2016, 04:22:40 AM

I'm in chat now. Would love it, if I get my game with dan and/or quevy running tonight.

Your wish is my command! O:-)

You should have asked Dan to let you win! ;)

He doesn't normally have to, it just happens...
Title: Re: Princess & Dragon League: Dragons
Post by: Valheru on February 04, 2016, 10:20:39 AM
Quevy, NY, I'll be online the whole evening and maybe until around 01h CET. If you're interested in our game.
Title: Re: Princess & Dragon League: Dragons
Post by: kettlefish on February 04, 2016, 10:43:21 AM
Here comes the x-score list - CarcC-A-Dragons 03 02 2016:
Title: Re: Princess & Dragon League: Dragons
Post by: Hounk on February 04, 2016, 03:17:44 PM
I was very wary going into this game as I don't have a great record against Hounk
I think, that's what we call in German "selective awareness", not sure if this is a proper English term. I think, your record against me is, like with most player in the top area of ELO ratings, much better, then you believe.

Quote
The net result was that the farm ended up being tied, and two of Hounks subsequent attempts to win it outright were blocked (although one of them wasn't entirely blocked and could have made it onto the farm if Hounk had placed the crcr tile elsewhere).
This was probably one of my biggest mistakes in that game, the other was placing there the farmer in the first place, because I knew of the risk, and there would have been better options to join the farm a few turns later. However, I very likely would have joint my farmer otherwise, but you probably the other one, which I trapped with the tunnel tile, too. So I'm not sure, if I would have benefit of it, but it would have definitely been the wiser thing to do.

Still, I enjoyed the game. Seemed thrilling, and the outcome open till close to the end, although dan looked slightly in front most of the game.
Title: Re: Princess & Dragon League: Dragons
Post by: Valheru on February 04, 2016, 03:44:05 PM
Latenight game against ny1050220

Valheru: 130
ny1050220: 115

This game was all about meepleshortage and a big farmbattle. We started off with some quick points on either side. Major cities that were being built were blocked off by the both of us, trapping a meeple or two in the process. We both realised that scoring those quick points would be essential. Small roads, small cities, you name it.. Because of that, a large farm began to grow. I engaged on it, but was quickly countered by ny1050220 and even beaten due to good play with the dragon. But by that time, he had 6 meeples engaged in that or some other adjacent farm as a reserve so I gave up on it and saved my two spare meeples. Ny's other meeple was stuck in a big city he couldn't complete anymore. Scoring quick points here and there with cloisters, another farm and some cities, and the dragon being on a leash or nowhere near the action up top, I could build on my lead and gather enough points to secure the win. In the end, the margin was small but comfortable enough because ny1050220 was really handicapped without any meeples.

I needed that win, when looking at the standings, so I'm glad I delivered. Very tough game in the beginning, but 25 tiles remaining, I had a free game because of the meepleshortage of NY. Thank you for taking the time for this game and good luck with the rest of the tournament!

Quevy is my remaining opponent, excited to play the match!
Title: Re: Princess & Dragon League: Dragons
Post by: Hounk on February 06, 2016, 10:09:43 AM
Quevy vs. Hounk
194:124

My last game. Another good game, another loss. Can blame myself for it. Placing the 0 point farmer on that CCCF next to my other farmer was a preety dumb thing. Knew it the moment, I confirmed it and hoped to connect, before Quevy could block with road, but of course, he got a fitting tile two or three turns later.

Game started strange with three volcano tiles among the first dozen or so, while no dragon move for quite a long time. Although, I trapped one of quevys first meeple as a monk (on the tile with his farmer and the fairy), I was never less short of meeples. Quevy got a few lucky tile draws, particular regarding the two big finished city, which both got to him in the end, the last cloister, which was a "drop in the hole for 9 points, and regarding his last farmer to join the main farm. But this all wouldn't have changed the outcome of the game, it would just had made it a bit tighter. It didn't really "feel" like eventually ending with a gap of 70 points. Great played by Quevy, anyway. Congratulations!
Title: Re: Princess & Dragon League: Dragons
Post by: Valheru on February 06, 2016, 12:55:49 PM
My last game of the first round, against Quevy.

Quevy: 217
Valheru: 191

Alas, I couldn't capitalize on the momentum of my previous victory and lost a very tense game against Quevy. I started very aggressively and gained an early lead of about 25 points, if I'm not mistaken. Quevy got to me pretty soon after that and it was clear that a huge main farm was emerging with various small cities being finished and long roads were built. The fight for that farm began, and what a fight it was! In the end we had 4 meeples each on it because of various countermoves by the both of us. I thought I had it twice, but Quevy came back and took the lead. In the attack I performed better than in defense and could draw it but nothing more.

Along with the points of a few cloisters and a pretty hungry-for-green-meeples-dragon, Quevy took the lead and I wasn't able to come back from it. The major city in the upper right was probably the big turning point. It got built with scraps that neither of us could use in the beginning. I entered it when it was about 18 points (a lot of banners in it), still thinking it could not be finished but the points were welcome, but I lost my focus, Quevy capitalized on that and put two meeples in it. I was lucky enough to get one out and share the points in the end (52!+3 with the fairy). Still, that could have been the winning ticket for me, if I had played it a bit better/smarter.

Nonetheless, although Quevy thought he made some mistakes, I think it was a really well fought match of Quevy with a deserving victor in the end. Meepleshortage on my behalf made the point difference a bit bigger, Quevy grabbed some really late points on a few farms, roads but that didn't change the result spectacularly. The swinging point happened before, I think.

I hope I interpreted this game correctly, but I'm sure Quevy would like to comment?

Anyway, that concludes my first round in my first tournament ever. I'm quite happy with the results. There were games where I got outplayed pretty badly (Rosco,...), games where I fought hard and only just lost/won. The main thing is that I learned a lot, which I can hold on to in the future. My farmgame especially approved drastically. I'm very excited to see where I'll eventually end in this league, but the experience has been delightful. 
Title: Re: Princess & Dragon League: Dragons
Post by: quevy on February 07, 2016, 12:34:53 AM
Yes, you played the game perfectly, my mistakes have cost us at least 14 points, if I had lost that I would not be very happy.
I closed a city without removing your knight through the Princess, but I have added an important ontadino, I have not received 8 points from a road to a fairy of protection is not needed here.

Excellent game in any case.
Title: Re: Princess & Dragon League: Dragons
Post by: quevy on February 07, 2016, 01:00:22 AM
Quevy 158- Rosco 125

I also won this game, but with much luck.
Rosco was always ahead of me scoring, I could not do the scores and I had to play very defensively, trying to block or delay all that he did, I gave up my follower to temporarily block 2, early in the game has moved on the big field domain that you created, rosco managed to block a follower who had placed beside her.
I am could win the big cities up and get back into the game, but rosco has managed to put farmers in several places easily connected with a RFFF tiles that still was at stake. I tried to avoid this with some placings and entering a follower of security, not realizing there were no longer with curved tiles.
Rosco has linked a farmer and this would give him the victory, but the dragon's position with respect to it and the tile positioned to connect it were perfect to make it a palatable meal last dragon moving tile left, I hoped to have that and I I got it.

Rosco great game, I'm sure you would have deserved more.
Title: Re: Princess & Dragon League: Dragons
Post by: danisthirty on February 09, 2016, 12:56:52 AM
danisthirty vs. jma03:

(http://www.dan.tehill.net/danisthirty_vs_jma03_P_and_D_scores.jpg)

(http://www.dan.tehill.net/danisthirty_vs_jma03_P_and_D_map.jpg)

The game crashed after about 30 tiles so we reloaded it and continued, but the fairy scoring was inconsistent after the restart. Sometimes it scored, sometimes it didn't. We both logged the missed points ourselves and came to the conclusion that jma03 missed out on 8 points and I missed out on 12 points. So, the corrected final scores were:

danisthirty :blue-meeple: - 164 : 141 - :yellow-meeple: jma03

This was a tough and taxing game which I didn't expect to win considering jma03's impressive record so far...

The dragon didn't feature much in the early part of the game which gave us both a chance to get some points. The scores were mostly quite level at first; I took the 4-point city with my first tile but jma03 took control of the fairy early on and soon caught up with me just from the +1 point per turn since I didn't move it away. Then he took the lead, but a cloister and an 8-point city (+3 fairy points) put me back in the game and gave me a narrow lead which I clung to for most of the game.

jma03 made an early play for the farm and claimed it in two places even though there were only a few completed cities at that time. I had held him up in a couple of others places too where I'd either tried to share some of his features or attempted to block him. In one place he avoided my trying to block him by ensuring that all he needed was a ccrr to complete a city and join his two farms, but as (bad) luck would have it (for him), he ended up waiting for almost the entire game before he drew one whereas I drew several. I didn't have all of the luck though as jma03 was very fortunate in terms of the number of volcano and dragon tiles he drew. He certainly made the most of these and I learnt how the dragon likes his steak: blue! :blue-meeple: :( However, this did at least ensure that I had a healthy supply of meeples. So much so that at one point about halfway through the game I had all 7 back in my hand whereas jma03 had just 1 (very annoying when all I wanted to do was move the fairy but couldn't because I didn't have anywhere to move it to)! ::)

The turning point in the game came when I drew the cccc tile. This was important as we'd fought for a city earlier in the game and the struggle had ended with me continuing to own the main part of the city outright but with a knight of jma03's and an additional one of my own camped adjacent to the cccc gap. I was happy with this as I would have won the city outright (2 knights against 1) if I'd drawn the cccc at that point but the dragon ate both of my meeples meaning that even though jma03's knight was only worth 2 points, if he'd drawn the cccc tile he could have taken the city for 28 points! So it was purely down to good luck that I drew and placed it in another city which I then completed for 18 points of my own about a dozen turns later. 8)

jma03's meeple shortage became a problem for him in the later stages of the game as he didn't want to risk using up his last meeple (3 farmers and 3 trapped) whereas I still had a few left and could afford to take a couple of risks (most of which paid off, but I wouldn't have taken them with my last meeple either). I managed to equalise jma03's farms in three different places and was sitting on a good lead of about 30 points with 15 tiles to go. But I knew only too well from my game against Valheru how quickly a winning position can be lost when there's a dragon roaming around!

The game had an exciting ending when jma03 finally drew the ccrr tile he had been waiting for for most of the game. As well as the points, this merged two of our farms and most importantly gave him a meeple back which he joined back onto the main farm with ease a few turns later. I was able to match him here too and could have won the 30-point mega-farm outright if I'd drawn a straight road to connect my lone farmer in the north-west corner but the right tile never came up so it remained tied. My last tile of the game was a frrr with magic portal which allowed me to get a meeple back into the unfinished city which jma03 might have claimed if he'd drawn the cccc tile earlier. This got me an extra 9 points which was the most I could have hoped for.

Thanks for the tough but enjoyable game jma03, it was a close one! :) :(y)
Title: Re: Princess & Dragon League: Dragons
Post by: kettlefish on February 09, 2016, 01:14:16 AM
Here comes the x-score list - CarcC-A-Dragons 09 02 2016:
Title: Re: Princess & Dragon League: Dragons
Post by: danisthirty on February 09, 2016, 01:40:46 AM
Thanks kettlefish.

Please could you update this to show the corrected scores for my game with jma03? JCZ missed some fairy points so we counted them ourselves and added them to the scores after the game. Corrected score is shown in the post.

Thanks! :)
Title: Re: Princess & Dragon League: Dragons
Post by: MrNumbers on February 09, 2016, 01:42:40 AM
danisthirty :blue-meeple: - 164 : 141 - :yellow-meeple: jma11

So, you played against team? jma03+Leven? ;)
Title: Re: Princess & Dragon League: Dragons
Post by: danisthirty on February 09, 2016, 01:44:17 AM
danisthirty :blue-meeple: - 164 : 141 - :yellow-meeple: jma11

So, you played against team? jma03+Leven? ;)

 :-[

So sorry Jacobo!
Title: Re: Princess & Dragon League: Dragons
Post by: jma03 on February 10, 2016, 03:11:37 AM
danisthirty vs. jma03:

(http://www.dan.tehill.net/danisthirty_vs_jma03_P_and_D_scores.jpg)

(http://www.dan.tehill.net/danisthirty_vs_jma03_P_and_D_map.jpg)

The game crashed after about 30 tiles so we reloaded it and continued, but the fairy scoring was inconsistent after the restart. Sometimes it scored, sometimes it didn't. We both logged the missed points ourselves and came to the conclusion that jma03 missed out on 8 points and I missed out on 12 points. So, the corrected final scores were:

danisthirty :blue-meeple: - 164 : 141 - :yellow-meeple: jma03

This was a tough and taxing game which I didn't expect to win considering jma03's impressive record so far...

The dragon didn't feature much in the early part of the game which gave us both a chance to get some points. The scores were mostly quite level at first; I took the 4-point city with my first tile but jma03 took control of the fairy early on and soon caught up with me just from the +1 point per turn since I didn't move it away. Then he took the lead, but a cloister and an 8-point city (+3 fairy points) put me back in the game and gave me a narrow lead which I clung to for most of the game.

jma03 made an early play for the farm and claimed it in two places even though there were only a few completed cities at that time. I had held him up in a couple of others places too where I'd either tried to share some of his features or attempted to block him. In one place he avoided my trying to block him by ensuring that all he needed was a ccrr to complete a city and join his two farms, but as (bad) luck would have it (for him), he ended up waiting for almost the entire game before he drew one whereas I drew several. I didn't have all of the luck though as jma03 was very fortunate in terms of the number of volcano and dragon tiles he drew. He certainly made the most of these and I learnt how the dragon likes his steak: blue! :blue-meeple: :( However, this did at least ensure that I had a healthy supply of meeples. So much so that at one point about halfway through the game I had all 7 back in my hand whereas jma03 had just 1 (very annoying when all I wanted to do was move the fairy but couldn't because I didn't have anywhere to move it to)! ::)

The turning point in the game came when I drew the cccc tile. This was important as we'd fought for a city earlier in the game and the struggle had ended with me continuing to own the main part of the city outright but with a knight of jma03's and an additional one of my own camped adjacent to the cccc gap. I was happy with this as I would have won the city outright (2 knights against 1) if I'd drawn the cccc at that point but the dragon ate both of my meeples meaning that even though jma03's knight was only worth 2 points, if he'd drawn the cccc tile he could have taken the city for 28 points! So it was purely down to good luck that I drew and placed it in another city which I then completed for 18 points of my own about a dozen turns later. 8)

jma03's meeple shortage became a problem for him in the later stages of the game as he didn't want to risk using up his last meeple (3 farmers and 3 trapped) whereas I still had a few left and could afford to take a couple of risks (most of which paid off, but I wouldn't have taken them with my last meeple either). I managed to equalise jma03's farms in three different places and was sitting on a good lead of about 30 points with 15 tiles to go. But I knew only too well from my game against Valheru how quickly a winning position can be lost when there's a dragon roaming around!

The game had an exciting ending when jma03 finally drew the ccrr tile he had been waiting for for most of the game. As well as the points, this merged two of our farms and most importantly gave him a meeple back which he joined back onto the main farm with ease a few turns later. I was able to match him here too and could have won the 30-point mega-farm outright if I'd drawn a straight road to connect my lone farmer in the north-west corner but the right tile never came up so it remained tied. My last tile of the game was a frrr with magic portal which allowed me to get a meeple back into the unfinished city which jma03 might have claimed if he'd drawn the cccc tile earlier. This got me an extra 9 points which was the most I could have hoped for.

Thanks for the tough but enjoyable game jma03, it was a close one! :) :(y)

little to add to this fabulous narrative.
at the point where Dan was 7 meeple and me 1 meeple,
I saw the game became difficult for me.
The fairy gave me a lot of play and my meeple last saw a little light at the end of the tunnel, but not enough to win the game .

Dan was fair winner
Title: Re: Princess & Dragon League: Dragons
Post by: jma03 on February 10, 2016, 03:14:09 AM
danisthirty :blue-meeple: - 164 : 141 - :yellow-meeple: jma11

So, you played against team? jma03+Leven? ;)

 :-[

So sorry Jacobo!
HAHAHAHA
Title: Re: Princess & Dragon League: Dragons
Post by: danisthirty on February 11, 2016, 05:51:40 AM
I will probably be available tomorrow (Friday) evening from around 8:30pm (UK time) onwards if quevy, aenima or ny1050220 fancy a game?

It looks as though we only have 6 games left to go and our group is still wide open! 8)
Title: Re: Princess & Dragon League: Dragons
Post by: quevy on February 11, 2016, 08:42:16 AM
Hello Dan, unfortunately I tomorrow night I have the live game evening with friends I can not be there.
Title: Re: Princess & Dragon League: Dragons
Post by: Hounk on February 11, 2016, 09:43:21 AM
It looks as though we only have 6 games left to go and our group is still wide open! 8)
I wish you all the best for your game against ny1050220. >:D ;)
Title: Re: Princess & Dragon League: Dragons
Post by: ny1050220 on February 11, 2016, 09:54:24 AM
It looks as though we only have 6 games left to go and our group is still wide open! 8)
I wish you all the best for your game against ny1050220. >:D ;)
Did I miss anything >:D
Title: Re: Princess & Dragon League: Dragons
Post by: danisthirty on February 11, 2016, 10:22:39 AM
It looks as though we only have 6 games left to go and our group is still wide open! 8)
I wish you all the best for your game against ny1050220. >:D ;)
Did I miss anything >:D

Tomorrow night?

Nothing against Ny, but Dan-fanclub right here as well!  O0

I'm already a lifetime-member of the ny1050220 fanclub too so it should be an interesting game! :D
Title: Re: Princess & Dragon League: Dragons
Post by: Valheru on February 11, 2016, 10:23:23 AM
It looks as though we only have 6 games left to go and our group is still wide open! 8)
I wish you all the best for your game against ny1050220. >:D ;)

Nothing against Ny, but Dan-fanclub right here as well!  O0
Title: Re: Princess & Dragon League: Dragons
Post by: aenima on February 11, 2016, 10:48:57 AM
quevy VS Aenima:   148 - 180

it's always a pleasure to fight against quevy! quick game, great fight for the fields... I was lucky with the movement of the dragon at the beginning!
Title: Re: Princess & Dragon League: Dragons
Post by: aenima on February 11, 2016, 10:51:27 AM
I will probably be available tomorrow (Friday) evening from around 8:30pm (UK time) onwards if quevy, aenima or ny1050220 fancy a game?

It looks as though we only have 6 games left to go and our group is still wide open! 8)

hello dan!
I can play when you want tomorrow! have you recive my tiles?
Title: Re: Princess & Dragon League: Dragons
Post by: aenima on February 11, 2016, 01:17:23 PM
Aenima Vs Rosco : 145 - 142

:D great game!
it was very funny... and again lucky for me!
Title: Re: Princess & Dragon League: Dragons
Post by: danisthirty on February 11, 2016, 02:27:02 PM
hello dan!
I can play when you want tomorrow! have you recive my tiles?

Yeah sure. How does 8:30pm (UK) tomorrow grab you?

Yes, I got your tile thanks. Photo coming soon! :) :(y)
Title: Re: Princess & Dragon League: Dragons
Post by: aenima on February 12, 2016, 03:28:36 AM
hello dan!
I can play when you want tomorrow! have you recive my tiles?

Yeah sure. How does 8:30pm (UK) tomorrow grab you?

Yes, I got your tile thanks. Photo coming soon! :) :(y)

yes, I can! see you at 8.30 pm in the chatroom! ;) prepear to looooossseee  >:D ihihih ...(it's for me, not for you!  :D )
Title: Re: Princess & Dragon League: Dragons
Post by: kettlefish on February 12, 2016, 09:29:55 AM
Here comes the x-score list - CarcC-A-Dragons 12 02 2016:

NOW - the list includes the wish score from danisthirty for the game against jma03.
Title: Re: Princess & Dragon League: Dragons
Post by: danisthirty on February 12, 2016, 10:35:57 PM
danisthirty :blue-meeple: - 201 : 124 - :black-meeple: aenima

(http://www.dan.tehill.net/aenima_P_and_D_scores.jpg)
(http://www.dan.tehill.net/aenima_P_and_D_map.jpg)

A good game for me against aenima. I don't really know where it wrong for him, but he played quite cautiously and seemed to have at least 2 or 3 meeples in his hand for most of the game (until the last dozen or so tiles anyway). This made it very difficult for me to trap him anywhere but it also limited his scoring potential. Despite this, I was able to complete most of the features I claimed which kept my score moving in the right direction and left me with enough meeples to lead the way in terms of claiming farms. My lone farmer on the bottom farm was there for most of the game without any competition either from aenima or the dragon. However, aenima was the first to claim the top farm but I got lucky enough to join him on it and then win it outright with some lucky draws. Aenima wasn't so fortunate with his tiles and couldn't join his second farmer. All he needed was a ffxx tile but it was late in the game and we only had a few tiles left each. I got the tile he needed. :(

The turning point in the game came when I drew the final crrf tile (my lucky tile) and completed a 24-point city with it, claiming a 6-point farm at the same time. Then I drew the last cfrr tile that I needed to take aenima's north farm outright with my next tile! It wasn't a good time for the black meeples...

The dragon got a good breakfast at the start of the game (2 of my monks!) but lunch and dinner were much smaller. At one point aenima placed a farmer in a very strange place. I couldn't see why but it turned out to be an accident that couldn't be undone so we used the dragon to return his pointless farmer to his hand. The game could have been quite different if a few more dragon tiles had come out nearer the end of the game but all the action took place around the north farm in the last third of the game while the dragon was stuck in the south with just 2 of aenima's trapped meeples for company!

Thanks for the game aenima, and well played! :(y) Sorry about the win margin, it certainly doesn't reflect your skill as a player but we all have off games every now and again... :(
Title: Re: Princess & Dragon League: Dragons
Post by: aenima on February 13, 2016, 12:54:40 AM
 :-[ yes... a terrible game for me!
I don't know, you are right, I had many possibility but... I don't know... wrong day, wrong head, wrong game :)
I was tinking about the "luck" factor, but the reality is that we had the same chances to drow that tiles for their numer in the pool... So you wasn't too lucky and I wasn't too unlucky!
aniway... I'd like to have a new game with you! I think it was our first game (if I remember right we play togheter only one time but in a game in 3 or 4)  ;)
Title: Re: Princess & Dragon League: Dragons
Post by: danisthirty on February 13, 2016, 04:25:30 AM
aniway... I'd like to have a new game with you! I think it was our first game (if I remember right we play togheter only one time but in a game in 3 or 4)  ;)

Sounds good. I'd love to have an unofficial rematch sometime! :) :(y)
Title: Re: Princess & Dragon League: Dragons
Post by: Valheru on February 13, 2016, 05:10:15 AM
aniway... I'd like to have a new game with you! I think it was our first game (if I remember right we play togheter only one time but in a game in 3 or 4)  ;)

Sounds good. I'd love to have an unofficial rematch sometime! :) :(y)

Urgh, don't remind me of our unofficial rematch. Still have nightmares about it. :(
Title: Re: Princess & Dragon League: Dragons
Post by: danisthirty on February 16, 2016, 12:21:14 AM
3 matches left:

danisthirty vs. quevy
danisthirty vs. ny1050220
quevy vs. jma03

So quevy and I have 2 games left each, and jma03 and ny1050220 have 1 game left. I am attempting to arrange my final games via PM, hopefully within the next week or so our group will be complete. Still plenty to fight for so I'm looking forward to some tough battles!
Title: Re: Princess & Dragon League: Dragons
Post by: Valheru on February 18, 2016, 08:03:09 AM
Come on guys, let's get this finished. I wanna know where I'll be ending this first groupstage  >:D
Title: Re: Princess & Dragon League: Dragons
Post by: danisthirty on February 18, 2016, 08:17:10 AM
I'm playing ny1050220 on Sunday evening.

Hoping to play quevy tomorrow evening.
Title: Re: Princess & Dragon League: Dragons
Post by: danisthirty on February 21, 2016, 11:25:14 PM
I played my game with Yi/ ny1050220 last night:

(http://www.dan.tehill.net/Dan_vs_Yi_PandD_scores.jpg)

(http://www.dan.tehill.net/Dan_Yi_20160222-065208.png)

It was a tough game for both of us I think. Yi got off to a good start with a couple of small cities but since the dragon came so late to the party I was able to finish a cloister and a small city of my own which meant we were pretty much even after about 20 tiles.

I was the first to claim the farm but Yi matched me so I placed another farmer and he matched me with this too. Since he also had 2 knights in the same city at this point, his scoring opportunities had been somewhat limited and he spent most of the middle part of the game with just 1 (or often 0) meeples left in his supply whereas I hadn't invested so heavily anywhere and usually had 1 or 2 to play with. This was the only reason I was able to build any lead at all!

I did manage to tie the big city at one point but one of my knights was lured away meaning Yi won it outright and only needed a frcr tile to complete it. I didn't know if there were any left, and spent the rest of the game dreading the right tile turning up for him, but fortunately there were none left so the city remained incomplete. On the other hand, I claimed an early city and spent the whole game waiting for a cfrr to close it. I drew plenty of crrf tiles, which didn't help, but Yi drew all 4 of the cfrr tiles so my city remained incomplete. My other city in the south-west corner was claimed by Yi first, but then I joined him in it and finally removed him from it with a princess tile but didn't quite manage to complete it.

The dragon didn't have too big an impact on the game but at one point gave Yi the choice to remove a farmer or one of his knights from his big city. The farm was tied but he was winning the city so I was surprised that he chose the farmer as this ended up being the more valuable feature, but I figured he was probably aware of something that I wasn't and we fought on. If he'd removed the knight instead I think the battle for the farm could have been very interesting!

In some ways it was a bit of a frustrating game in that neither of us ever seemed to complete very much, many features were tied and neither of us had sufficient meeples in our supply to go for any risky points. Still, this is the way it goes sometimes and I can't fault the majority of Yi's decisions regardless of his limited experience with P & D! :)

Thanks for the game! :(y)
Title: Re: Princess & Dragon League: Dragons
Post by: ny1050220 on February 22, 2016, 09:00:45 AM
At that time, the field had 5 cities, so 15 points. The latter 4 were added later, 3 of which result from the fffr tile with a cloister near the upper left corner. I didn't count the tiles and I was hoping to finish the city and free two meeples. All in all, it was ignorance that lead to the choice of removing a farmer.
Title: Re: Princess & Dragon League: Dragons
Post by: jma03 on February 22, 2016, 11:35:14 AM
good work Dan , sorry for ny.

Dan , has given a turn 360º since the elo by Jere public .
Congratulations , the group is  very interesting for the 2-3-4 positions.
i like that.
Quevy vs jma03 and Quevy vs Dan

will make two interesting matchups :(y) :(y)
Title: Re: Princess & Dragon League: Dragons
Post by: danisthirty on February 22, 2016, 12:38:20 PM
Yes, I'm happy to have gone from 0 pts and -62 PD after 2 games to 10 pts and +148 PD after 7 games! :)

The last two games will make all the difference for me (even though I'm not playing in one of them)
Title: Re: Princess & Dragon League: Dragons
Post by: jma03 on February 23, 2016, 04:15:45 PM

a very close game,we use very little monasteries.

It was a very even game, sharing a castle of 34ptos.


the dragon had little action , a move which could only eat farmer quevy .


the game was decided when quevy wanted to join one of my castle,but four tiles later , draw a princess to take Castle 20ptos.

Title: Re: Princess & Dragon League: Dragons
Post by: danisthirty on February 24, 2016, 02:27:02 AM
With one game left to go (danisthirty vs. quevy) this is how things are looking in our group:

#1   Merlin_89     16pts   +348   
#2   jma03         12pts   +177   
#3   danisthirty   10pts   +148   
#4   quevy         8pts   +28   
#5   aenima        8pts   -26   
#6   Rosco         6pts   -12   
#7   Valheru       4pts   -172   
#8   Hounk         4pts   -310   
#9   ny1050220     2pts   -181   

Positions 2 to 5 are still undetermined and will depend on the outcome of my all-important game with quevy:
Positions 1 and 6 - 9 are now fixed.
Title: Re: Princess & Dragon League: Dragons
Post by: Chuck on February 24, 2016, 02:37:39 AM


#1   Merlin_89     16pts   +348   
#2   jma03         12pts   +177   
#3   danisthirty   10pts   +148   
#4   quevy         8pts   +28   
#5   aenima        8pts   -26   
#6   Rosco         6pts   -12   
#7   Valheru       4pts   -172   
#8   Hounk         4pts   -310   
#9   ny1050220     2pts   -181   
Positions 1 and 6 - 9 are now fixed.

Perfect, that means I can arrange my game with ny1050220. Or are there any changes coming upon us with further expansions for the games?
Title: Re: Princess & Dragon League: Dragons
Post by: danisthirty on February 24, 2016, 03:22:11 AM
Perfect, that means I can arrange my game with ny1050220. Or are there any changes coming upon us with further expansions for the games?

As much as I admire your enthusiasm, I think it best that we wait for the first stage of the competition to finish before we start playing the second. ;)
Title: Re: Princess & Dragon League: Dragons
Post by: Chuck on February 24, 2016, 03:30:30 AM
Hmmm, okay. ;-)
Title: Re: Princess & Dragon League: Dragons
Post by: quevy on February 25, 2016, 01:47:12 PM
I have nothing to say about this except that luck has been at the service of one of the participants, and that was not me. I think the Dragon loves green....


Seriously, I have suffered a lot this game, I spent much time chasing Dan who stretched the advantage from time to time, but all my strategy was blocked by the good game and the Dragon cards, (maybe I will have taken 2 moments useless), the struggle for the great city was long, maybe get the tile that closed the city and insweriva the follower was the only way for me to win, but auks in this case the lucky guy was not me ...
Title: Re: Princess & Dragon League: Dragons
Post by: quevy on February 25, 2016, 02:02:45 PM
I think that if Danisthirty had not eaten all my followers with HIS dragon believe that the final score would have been roughly this :) (http://i34.tinypic.com/2r5spjt.jpg)
Title: Re: Princess & Dragon League: Dragons
Post by: danisthirty on February 25, 2016, 03:37:06 PM
danisthirty :blue-meeple: - 223 : 123 - :green-meeple: quevy

(http://www.dan.tehill.net/dan_vs_quevy_pandd_scores.jpg)
(http://www.dan.tehill.net/dan_vs_quevy_pandd_map.jpg)

I can't decide if it was more through sheer brilliance or general coolness that I won this game, but I do know that there was a whole lot of awesomeness involved. :D

This game really felt a lot like a camping holiday for me as it was "in tents" (intense) :)). In the early stages of the game quevy claimed a small city and I glommed into it, then removed him from it with a princess tile soon afterwards. This is where I would have laughed evilly to myself if I was a bad guy in a film. >:D But instead I continued to expand the city up until the point where I needed a single cfxx city cap to complete it. The tile never came though and before long quevy had expanded my city with a cccf to bide some more time before I closed it and give him some more opportunities to glom into it. Soon afterwards he drew a cccf princess tile and removed me from the city with it. I took it back. He removed me with another princess. I took it back. Finally he removed me with yet another princess tile which left the city standing empty with just one open side. All the magic portals were gone, meaning that the only way back into the city was with a cfxx tile. 5 or 6 tiles later I jumped out of my seat when I drew a cfff which I used to claim the city for 68 points. Boom. 8) :(y)

Obviously this was down to luck alone and I can't pretend that it was thanks to any amount of skill or forward planning that I won the city. After being removed from it three times though, I do feel that I deserved the city even though quevy was the first to claim it. :@

The battle elsewhere was far less exciting although we fought quite closely for the farm. The dragon helped me out in this respect as I removed many of quevy's farmers with it owing to the fact that I drew at least three quarters of the dragon tiles. He kept getting them back onto it though, and in the end it felt right (to me) that it was tied even though quevy only managed to match me on it with his last tile of the game!

#1   Merlin_89     16pts   +348   
#2   danisthirty   12pts   +248   
#3   jma03         12pts   +177   
#4   aenima        8pts   -26   
#5   quevy         8pts   -72   
#6   Rosco         6pts   -12   
#7   Valheru       4pts   -172   
#8   Hounk         4pts   -310   
#9   ny1050220     2pts   -181   

Anyway, I was very happy with the result obviously and am glad and surprised to have finished in second place (I think) after losing my first two games. So, the dragon group is now complete; good luck to everyone in the next stage of the competition. Do us proud! :)
Title: Re: Princess & Dragon League: Dragons
Post by: kettlefish on February 26, 2016, 12:40:26 AM
Here comes the final x-score list - CarcC-A-Dragons 26 02 2016:

Title: Re: Princess & Dragon League: Dragons
Post by: Merlin_89 on February 26, 2016, 09:25:04 AM
Congrats Dan on your impressive streak! I guess I can call myself lucky that I played with you early! :P

Well done group! We are indeed dragons...
Title: Re: Princess & Dragon League: Dragons
Post by: danisthirty on February 26, 2016, 09:30:30 AM
Thanks Merlin. I'm glad to have salvaged a little self-respect after my appalling start!

Congrats on your impressive unbeaten streak too by the way. I'm looking forward to seeing how it goes for you in the top group! :) :(y)
Title: Re: Princess & Dragon League: Dragons
Post by: kettlefish on April 06, 2016, 01:43:29 AM
the last game in the princess group is finished. That means the 2nd round starts.

I opened the topic:
Princess & Dragon League: Groups D1 - D9 (http://www.carcassonnecentral.com/community/index.php?topic=2595.0)