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MrNumbers · « **Reply #15 on:** June 19, 2016, 01:14:51 PM »

MrNumbers vs. Decar
76:73

Very close game, as you can see

The biggest farm remained unclaimed, but I still have 4 tower pieces left. Tower's lesson learned: you need to defend your meeples from coming towers

Decar · « **Reply #16 on:** June 19, 2016, 01:28:22 PM »

Thanks for the game Mr Numbers - was a tense battle!

kettlefish · « **Reply #17 on:** June 22, 2016, 02:34:25 AM »

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khalidqasrawi · « **Reply #18 on:** June 22, 2016, 09:56:29 AM »

Dear all A folks

Sorry to have been absent for a while. Back to play. Who can play on Tuesday 5th July? Also, I'm probably available through the day tomorrow and definitely Monday and Tueday day times. I might also be in the chatroom on Sunday evening.

khalid

Decar · « **Reply #19 on:** June 22, 2016, 09:58:57 AM »

Good to hear from you,

I can do 5th July if we cant do sooner. How about 8.30pm?

khalidqasrawi · « **Reply #20 on:** June 23, 2016, 02:05:51 AM »

My mistake. I meant Tuesday 28th June. Can you do that instead Decar?

Decar · « **Reply #21 on:** June 23, 2016, 02:07:53 AM »

I did wonder! Yes next Tuesday's even better!

khalidqasrawi · « **Reply #22 on:** June 23, 2016, 02:20:35 AM »

Okay. Booked for next Tuesday 8:30pm unless we meet before. Depending on plans, I might be available earlier. I'm supposed to go to North Wales for a couple of days climbing this evening but the weather looks a bit grim.

Decar · « **Reply #23 on:** June 24, 2016, 01:52:55 PM »

Thankfully I've finished the 24th June much better than it started.

Chooselife: 95 vs Decar: 108

I got very lucky at the start and had some good/easy steals with towers, that gave me enough confidence to cap 2 towers threatening a large city in the centre of the map. We had a nice battle over the main farm which I won, the stupidly placed a cloister to make it larger, but there were plenty of tiles for Chooselife to glom on, even with only 12 tiles remaining.

Merlin_89 · « **Reply #24 on:** June 26, 2016, 12:52:14 PM »

Group stage is over for me...

99 Merlin_89-Decar 62

My 4th win! Tower component didn't play that big of a deal for me, I didn't get many of tower pieces, and I was concentrated on scoring (and quite lucky with that). I managed to complete cloister (not so often with Tower expansion). I played standard blocking tactics on Decar's meeples, and I was succesful with that - one meeple blocked on road, and two more in city (I was lucky with that, Decar missed all tiles needed there). In the end that was decisive for the game.
Fight for field started in the middle of the game and tower got operational for serious! Decar was close to capturing North field, but he made mistake with placing meeple in range of tower... Last 10 tiles, Decar was out of tower pieces, and I could place meeples freely (still I couldn't claim North field).

One more thing... We were confused with implementation of Tower's rules into JCZ. Decar managed twice to capture my meeple that were put on top of existing tower. I thought it was incorrect with rules but as I see publishers created mess with that game action. I was not aware of possibility of that...

Thanks Decar for playing this game!

kettlefish · « **Reply #25 on:** June 26, 2016, 12:54:21 PM »

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Decar · « **Reply #26 on:** June 26, 2016, 01:03:29 PM »

Quote from: Merlin_89 on June 26, 2016, 12:52:14 PM

One more thing... We found bug in implementation of Tower's rules into JCZ. Decar managed twice to capture my meeple that were put on top of existing tower. That's incorrect with Annotated Rules.

This is not a bug, The Carcassonne Annotated Rules contains a footnote:

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 There is a slight change in the rules here. The original rules stated that it was possible to take “one follower of an opponent prisoner,” while the new rules only say that it is possible to take “one follower prisoner.” It is now quite possible for a player to choose to “capture” his or her own followers, contradicting an earlier FAQ. The RGG edition of the Big Box also changes this rule.

JCZ follows the Big Box Rules - it made little difference, I was a sitting duck by then, but it allowed me to get a few meeple back!

Thanks for the game Merlin!

MrNumbers · « **Reply #27 on:** June 26, 2016, 10:48:20 PM »

MrNumbers vs. Khalid
103:102

One of the closest games I've ever played! At the start I was trailing by almost 30 points, but then I managed to complete my big city at the north (which Khalid considered as very unlikely to be complete) and I've got some lucky tower tiles draws - I had 5 Khalid's meeples prisoners at the end of the game! If Khalid had at least one meeple in hand, it would be a tie! There wasn't a big farm to fight for, but many small farms gave me needed points for a win.

MrNumbers · « **Reply #28 on:** June 28, 2016, 02:21:52 PM »

MrNumbers vs. Chooselife
86:104

Again I missed coming threat from growing tower and lost the big city. Then it was all about luck to draw ccff tile and score vacant 36-point city. Chooselife draw it pretty quickly and after that I couldn't catch up and overcome such a big gap.

Group stage is over for me with 2 wins and 2 losses, and, if I am not mistaken, negative PD.

khalidqasrawi · « **Reply #29 on:** June 28, 2016, 04:03:12 PM »

Chooselife vs khalidqasrawi
97:103

A really good fun game for me and Chooselife's second of the evening. My poor start was compounded by an early misclick in which I placed a farmer instead of a robber. The compensation was 6 points at the end of the game. I then established a farmer well protected by base game tiles. The farm grew and various ploys around the farm ended with my holding it but not before my "well protected" farmer was stolen! Along the way Chooselife had amassed a strong lead but the farm was enough to hold the win. My first of the tournament so at least I can hold my head up.