Author Topic: Princess & Dragon League: Princesses (Read 45193 times)

MrNumbers · « **Reply #105 on:** February 11, 2016, 01:59:14 PM »

MrNumbers vs. Chuck
165:90

danisthirty · « **Reply #106 on:** February 11, 2016, 02:24:28 PM »

Well done on your wins MrNumbers, it's good to see you back on top form once again!

Sorry for your losses Rich and Chuck, but I hope you enjoyed your games...

Chuck · « **Reply #107 on:** February 11, 2016, 02:39:42 PM »

I enjoyed mine, had a talk with MrNumbers afterwards, he pointed out a big mistake by me.... so once again a high learning curve.
Now I have to contact carcking to arrange my final league game.
After that, I'm looking forward to future leagues. ;-)

danisthirty · « **Reply #108 on:** February 11, 2016, 02:53:20 PM »

Quote from: Chuck on February 11, 2016, 02:39:42 PM

I enjoyed mine, had a talk with MrNumbers afterwards, he pointed out a big mistake by me.... so once again a high learning curve.
Now I have to contact carcking to arrange my final league game.
After that, I'm looking forward to future leagues. ;-)

Glad you enjoyed it, it's always good to have some understanding as to why your opponent felt that you lost...

Don't forget that there is still the second stage of the competition to come. Granted, it's only two more games after your game with Carcking but since you'll be competing against those who finish in the same group position as you from the other two groups you might find that you have some good opportunities to put everything you're learning into practice!

Chuck · « **Reply #109 on:** February 11, 2016, 09:31:35 PM »

Oh, I didn't think about that! Well, I surely can hope to do at least a tie. :-D

MrNumbers · « **Reply #110 on:** February 11, 2016, 11:24:35 PM »

The game with Chuck was all about trapping. When he placed second cloister, and 3 meeples became dependent of one tile, it was very tempting to trap them. I even ignored completing my own features in order to trap these meeples. Even after Chuck placed a tile, making the crfr hole, I counted crfr tiles and they all were gone already. Very soon I trapped another Chuck's meeple. Remaining blue meeples were busy on the farms, so throughout the game I avoided to eat all of them with Dragon in order not to let Chuck score points. The Chuck's mentioned big mistake was not to connect his lonely farmer to the big farm: he simply didn't see that opportunity as he was waiting for crfr tile to connect him, meantime the connection was possible through the north with rfxx tile. In the end of the game the Dragon was sitting on the volcano just above my 24-point farmer and the last tile was the tile with the Dragon, but, lucky me, it was my tile and I moved the fairy, leaving Dragon hungry this time.

The game with Rich_The_Fish was different, very close game. Right from the beginning we started to fight for almost every feature, but the Dragon, which was brought to the game with just third tile, had his own plans, so the owners of the features had changed frequently. Still I managed to win both the long road and both cities in the middle, completing them with one tile (right part was empty by that time). The farm looked very promising so I started to add farmers to it. Rich saw it too and tried to add his farmers as well. One of them was just above his cloister, but I cut him off, simultaneously trapping his monk. Near the end of the game Rich had eaten his cut-off farmer by mistake, thinking that he is outnumbered with my main-farm farmers. With that move he gave me another 12-point farm (by that time), and with one of the last moves I merged it with my upper 9-point farm (so, Rich's farmer would be outnumbered on this farm anyway). My weak point remains cloisters, I don't like them as they are easily get blocked, meantime Rich managed to complete 3 of them (last one with the very last tile).

MrNumbers · « **Reply #111 on:** February 12, 2016, 01:45:29 AM »

Taking into account last games results it looks like if Carcking will win all his remaining games, he has a chance to top the group (points difference involved). Otherwise (at least one loss), nobody can stop me from winning the group

Chooselife · « **Reply #112 on:** February 12, 2016, 06:10:53 AM »

Will be available in the afternoon.

Valheru · « **Reply #113 on:** February 12, 2016, 06:12:22 AM »

Quote from: MrNumbers on February 12, 2016, 01:45:29 AM

Taking into account last games results it looks like if Carcking will win all his remaining games, he has a chance to top the group (points difference involved). Otherwise (at least one loss), nobody can stop me from winning the group

Talking about the pressure is on!

Rich_The_Fish · « **Reply #114 on:** February 12, 2016, 06:23:17 AM »

Quote from: Chooselife on February 12, 2016, 06:10:53 AM

Will be available in the afternoon.

Great,thanks for letting me know. I'm out at the moment, but should be back home in about 20-30 mins. See you in a bit.

Rich_The_Fish · « **Reply #115 on:** February 12, 2016, 06:25:33 AM »

... provided I don't need to do the school run!

danisthirty · « **Reply #116 on:** February 12, 2016, 06:33:29 AM »

Quote from: MrNumbers on February 12, 2016, 01:45:29 AM

Taking into account last games results it looks like if Carcking will win all his remaining games, he has a chance to top the group (points difference involved). Otherwise (at least one loss), nobody can stop me from winning the group

Congratulations on your success so far MrNumbers. Good luck to you too with your remaining games Carcking

Chooselife · « **Reply #117 on:** February 12, 2016, 08:31:41 AM »

Back to the league games
Chooselife - 186 vs Rich_The_Fish - 139

I was really, really lucky on the last few tiles that allowed me to join the two farmers on the top to the big farm.
On the other side Rich was several times meepless which gave me a few liberty on the tile placement, most of my Dragon moves where just making him go as far from the red meeples as possible.