Author Topic: Bridges, Castles & Bazaars League: Castles (Read 17376 times)

thodekey · « **Reply #15 on:** March 04, 2017, 09:55:39 AM »

I can play on sunday as well

thodekey · « **Reply #16 on:** March 05, 2017, 01:23:16 AM »

Quote from: Adrornalin on March 04, 2017, 07:15:17 AM

Castles group, whats up with you? I'm ready to play this evening (Sat) and tomorrow the whole day (Sun). Please leave a msg here which time suits you most to play our BCB league games.

Hello Adrornalin,

I'm able to play now and the following hours...so if you're too...BCB it is! :-)

Chooselife · « **Reply #17 on:** March 05, 2017, 01:41:00 AM »

I can play right now

MrNumbers · « **Reply #18 on:** March 05, 2017, 03:18:27 AM »

I am available in the following couple of hours, if anyone is up for a League game.

thodekey · « **Reply #19 on:** March 05, 2017, 03:33:15 AM »

Finally got the time to play 2 of my BCB-games, the first one against Chooselife and the second one against Adrornalin...which were also the first 2 games in an official league for this rookie.

My first game against Chooselife went close for a while, not conceding a large point advantage on to each other until I managed to close the big city where I had the majority which gave me a nice advantage. After that, the big battle over the farms began together with the battle over a large city with 4 pennants. Chooselife won the battle over the largest farm with 2 (or was it 3?) meeples which gave him an extra 37 points, I managed to join a second meeple to the big city on the right which gave me an extra 13 points in the end. The rest of the game for me existed out of getting hold of the minor farms and because all of those farms didn't join one to another, my 4 farmers gave me also an extra 27 points. So in the end, the score was 155-108 with the big closed city as the major decisive project. In the end, the bazaars and the castles didn't make much difference in this game...the bridges were mainly used to enlarge the farms.

So, we had a nice Sunday morning game and my first win in an official game is a fact now. Time for the second challenger, Adrornalin.

PS: sorry, for the crappy screenshot...now I know I have to make two shots: one of the playing board and one of the scoring board.

thodekey · « **Reply #20 on:** March 05, 2017, 03:49:02 AM »

After a couple of tiles, the game against Adrornalin bursted out into a major battle over a large city. The result was that 3 of my meeples and 2 of adrornalin's meeples would be stuck there till the end of the game. To make it even worse, one of my other meeples got stuck in a cloister by smart tile placement of Adrornalin.
So, short of meeples, I had to concentrate on smaller projects and keeping the large farm field I had started. But that didn't work out either because Adrornalin joined 3 farmers to my field while I had only 2 farmers.
Meanwhile I kept on closing the big city until I only needed the same tile as the starting tile. On that moment, Adronalin had a rather big point advantage so in my mind, I was thinking of damage control to keep the points gap as close as I could.

Before I could see my last tile, Adrornalin congratulated me. Seems the starting tile was also my last tile with which I could close the big city, gaining 48 points extra and placing my last maple as a farmer, my only farmer who would give me (6) points.

In the end, to my own surprise and -it has to be said- a big portion of luck I won the game with 13 points difference.
Good luck to Adrornalin for the rest of the league...I'm sure you won't be that unlucky in the games to come.

Adrornalin · « **Reply #21 on:** March 05, 2017, 04:44:40 AM »

Congrats to thodekey. I would not name you a rookie, you played well. And I deserved to lose that game, because I was the one who forced the creation on that big city right after the beginning of the game. The much better option would have been to build on some smaller cities on my own with these tiles. So I have to accept the coinflip in the end and your completion of the big city that gave you the win.

My next game or should I say loss is waiting against MrNumbers. Today is not my day concerning Carcassonne-ing. Leven lets please postpone ourmatch on another day.

MrNumbers · « **Reply #22 on:** March 05, 2017, 04:53:34 AM »

MrNumbers vs. Adrornalin
161:109

The game has started with the grow of big city, which we shared later with 2 meeples each. Adrornalin have tried to trap some of my meeples, never succeeded though, but instead placed a castle and later completed my 11-points road. After that my opponent have tried to connect to my south city, but I not only have connected second meeple to it, I also placed a castle and won 20+20 points with it! This move boosted me in points and I started to think about farm, because Adrornalin already had 3 farmers down. The farmers fight started, and I was unexpectedly lucky in connecting my farmers to the main farm. Soon enough I had 4 farmers, and Adrornalin went all-in by connecting his part (west) with main farm. Still, he lost farm battle, as all xfff tiles where gone.
My second win, and again with 161 points

I think there will be an interesting game against thodekey, who also have 2 win by now

MrNumbers · « **Reply #23 on:** March 05, 2017, 04:54:51 AM »

5 games played, 5 left.

Adrornalin · « **Reply #24 on:** March 05, 2017, 05:56:17 AM »

That was really a enjoyable game even if I lost. MrNumbers did a very good job especially with the castles. And I realised too late what is gonna happen with the farming situation. But also I did not want to prevent him from joining because there where millions of possibilities to join. After losing the lead in the second half of the game it felt that I was always one step behind with my decisions. Three times in a row it happened that I placed tile and farmer, and MrNumbers drew my needed tile. Anyway, was fun!

Leven · « **Reply #25 on:** March 07, 2017, 12:27:18 PM »

Adrornalin, Chooselife, thodekey: I'm free to play our group games this week usually after 8 pm CET.
Please tell me when you're available.

Adrornalin · « **Reply #26 on:** March 08, 2017, 12:49:30 PM »

I try to be in the chat tomorrow, Thursday evening. Today it is too late and I am away over the weekend. So maybe tomorrow, otherwise on Monday.

Leven · « **Reply #27 on:** March 08, 2017, 03:26:43 PM »

Quote from: Adrornalin on March 08, 2017, 12:49:30 PM

I try to be in the chat tomorrow, Thursday evening. Today it is too late and I am away over the weekend. So maybe tomorrow, otherwise on Monday.

Great. Let's try it on Thursday then.

Adrornalin · « **Reply #28 on:** March 09, 2017, 01:12:36 PM »

hi there,
here's another result of the castles group. finally I could manage to win a game again. right from the beginning Leven boosted ahead with 16-0 points. after I gathered some small cities and castles, then the score difference was extremely close through the whole game. luckily I had the better options for winning the farm and had more meeples left in my supply. bridges were essential for me holding the farmers lead. castles we both placed well and finished quickly with moderate points amount. bazaar tiles appeared in a good way for me I felt, until the last bazaar, but Leven acted nice and sold me an (maybe decisive) tile very cheap.

thanks for playing!

Leven · « **Reply #29 on:** March 09, 2017, 02:24:01 PM »

Finally (after 5 defeats in a row) I managed to win a game.

Chooselife vs

Leven 68:108

This time the blocking tactics worked quite well, for the last period of the game Chooselife had either no meeple or only one meeple in his supply. That helped me a lot, particularly in winning the majority on the main farm.
Thanks for the game, Chooselife.