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Title: Friendly games
Post by: Rich_The_Fish on July 24, 2015, 12:07:39 PM
Given the number of friendly games that are currently being played, rather than cluttering up other specific threads (which 've been guilty of), jungleboy suggested that we created a separate topic for this. So, feel free to post a screenshot and details of your friendly / practice games here...
Title: Re: Friendly games
Post by: Rich_The_Fish on July 24, 2015, 12:36:33 PM
Right then, without further ado here are details of our friendly game from earlier...

Friendly game with jungleboy, Lukey-Dukey and myself using the basic game.

It was much closer than I expected at the end, with farms being highly scored by all. The final scores were as follows:
Rich_The_Fish: 107
jungleboy: 106
Lukey-Dukey: 96

Title: Re: Friendly games
Post by: Rich_The_Fish on August 02, 2015, 08:54:36 AM
Toastytoast dropped by the chatroom late last night to see if there were any players online from the group2 welcome tournament. There weren't though so we decided to play a friendly game - well I say friendly it was relatively but it was also quite tense as we were both rather competitive! At one stage I trapped 2 of both his and my meeples in a city, leaving only the CCCC tile available to complete the city (this was because I was going to be overpowered in the city so decided it would be best if we shared the points instead). Decar (who was hosting the game) commented that it was a ballsy move! The tiles weren't all that kind, and for ages we both had lots of meeples stuck in incomplete features - both of us had 1 in the city on the left and Toastytoast had one on the long road in the middle. In the end, the game was probably won after a big battle for fields. However, should the cloister with road tile have been drawn earlier by Toastytoast (rather than as his last tile), then the outcome may well have been different as he might have been able to merge the farms at the top and take control.

Final score:
Rich_The_Fish - 141  :green-meeple:
Toastytoast - 89  :red-meeple:

Thanks for the enjoyable game.
Title: Re: Friendly games
Post by: Decar on August 02, 2015, 10:16:42 AM
In hindsight, for you playing the CCCC where you did made sense.  I think you were able to make better use of the 2-meeple than toastytoast did.  It's difficult to decide sometimes whether it's better to play 3v3 or 5v5 or 7v7 with your meeple.  It really depends on how you think your opponent handles their meeple.

Your placement of the cccr tile was excellent.  But I was shouting at the screen, when toasty didnt just play a farmer in the field, before you joined!

I missed the end of the game, but the top-right looked intense.

Great game, i look forward to seeing more!
Title: Re: Friendly games
Post by: Rich_The_Fish on August 14, 2015, 04:45:16 PM
Thought it might be nice to post this - my friend joined CC tonight (T-101). He was hoping to join the new members welcome tournament but the recently vacated spot was already filled by then!

However, all is not lost as he's now been introduced to the forum and the fab JCZ, so we decided to have a (very) friendly game with loads of chat to explain what was going on whilst he learnt how to play. I hope that it wasn't too overwhelming for you and that you enjoyed your first game. Sorry about that farmer of mine - I completely forgot that I'd placed him there towards the start of the game and genuinely thought that you owned the field. You were a bit unlucky as well, as I kept on getting cloister tiles drawn, but you did managed to join several of my cities to share the points. Still, we can't have you winning your first game or you'd think it was too easy!!

Thanks once again for playing - you did really well and I'm looking forward to another game over the w/end.

Cheers mate.
Rich_The_Fish.
Title: Re: Friendly games
Post by: Ailurus on August 17, 2015, 02:32:54 PM
Nice game with Rich_The_Fish earlier this evening (basic game + T&B)! Rich deployed some farmers during the early stages and managed to claim the field in the end. For some reason I pretty much got every tile I needed at the right moment for most of the game. Hope I have some luck left for the remaining match in the Welcome Tournament :))

Rich_The_Fish — 118 :green-meeple:
Ailurus — 172 :red-meeple:
Title: Re: Friendly games
Post by: Rich_The_Fish on August 26, 2015, 03:25:52 PM
Joansinmiedo T-101 and I played a game earlier tonight. We used River II and the King and Robber Baron expansions, as a bit of practice for the World Cup tournament (I didn't add I&C though, as this was only T-101's third game so I didn't want to complicate things too much).

The game was a bit stop - start as JCZ crashed a couple of times and we had some connection issues, but we got there in the end! We all got a few meeples stuck for the majority of the game, but in the end it was all about the farms. T-101 got out numbered and lost out on a share of 30 points from the main farm. If I'm honest, Joansinmiedo seemed to have it all under control though - I only got close thanks to a couple of fortunate tiles enabling me to get my farmers into the mix. I did have a bit of a dilemma towards the end and chickened out and didn't complete the 8 tile city in the north west in order to gain the King tile (in the futile hope that the city wouldn't be completed, but it was in the end).

Final scores were:
Joansinmiedo  : 131  :red-meeple:
Rich_The_Fish : 108  :green-meeple:
T-101             : 64    :blue-meeple:
Title: Re: Friendly games
Post by: jungleboy on October 17, 2015, 11:52:14 AM
Khalid and I played a friendly match using the expansions for the next round in the World Cup for practice - I&C, A&M and M&W. It was a close game all the way. I had the bigger barn farm and finished a very large road with an inn, but Khalid completed a cathedral city with the mage in it. I stole a couple of mid-size cities from him and only just lost the overall city count despite his cathedral-mage city. Anyway, it was a good game and good practice for both of us ahead of our WC matches.
Title: Re: Friendly games
Post by: kettlefish on November 07, 2015, 02:50:11 PM
JCZ
Today I had a friendly game with jungleboy and Hounk.
We played with base game and Princess&Dragon.

With the last tile I joined my 2nd farmer into the big farm and won the majority of this farm - and have won the game.

The Princess did her work in the cities and the Dragon was always hungry and he got enough to eat.

Thanks for the game Hounk and jungleboy.
Title: Re: Friendly games
Post by: Hounk on November 08, 2015, 09:54:15 AM
It was sure a great game. Early on JB build most of the city in the center. Kettle at one time had a meeple inside, JB two, and a third one ready to sneak in, to make sure the dominance will stay. But the dragon was hungry, so suddenly, after I got via portal the second time into the CCCF-Cloister, there was a chance to get at least even with JB in the city. I tried to sneak in with the BG-CFFF between JBs 12 point farmer and mine, and was able to connect with the CCFF field splitter, which I used to remove JBs knight. (The farmer I placed later via portal.) So I was suddenly alone in the city, I virtually built nothing of before. The only thing I felt uneasy was, that I needed a CCFF to complete city and cloister, and I scanned the board, that all the regular BG-tiles, with exception of the 2 splitters were already out on the board. I was not sure, how many tiles there were in P&D (there was another splitter with vulcano, like I noticed later), but lucky me, I got the fitting princes tile pretty soon. So this tile alone was worth for me 40 points for the city, 9 for the cloister and 3 for the fairy and gave me a huge lead.

The downside was, that it made JB and kettle alike aware of me as the "main opponent", so the dragon was especially fond of my meeples. The turning point was, when I managed to lead kettles (at that time also mine) long road away from JBs thief and trap his monk with a CCFR-hole the same way, I previously did on kettle. JB seemed at that point quite stressed out, he even protected once his trapped 1 point thief instead of a nearby farmer with fairy. This made no difference, because the dragon ate on his next move them both, plus a farmer of me and my thief on the long road.

With that happening, I did not go for fighting me back into the road, getting into the farm with as much farmers as possible seemed more important. There was a huge fight between JB and me, who constantly had two farmers on the field or closed to connect, while kettle, I think all the time, only had the one with the fairy on the screen shot. But most of them pleased the dragon, and then, on the last tile, kettle eventually got for the first time a second farmer on the field, with JB and me only having one each at that time.

Very well played by kettle, who did not let herself be discouraged by the early huge lead of me, and fought back very good. Absolutely a deserved win.
Title: Re: Friendly games
Post by: jungleboy on November 13, 2015, 02:18:10 PM
A quick friendly game between halfling and me - base game + Abbey and Mayor. I held my abbey back until the end and closed the large city with it. The points from this and from my larger barn farm allowed me to win even though halfling led for basically the entire game.
Title: Re: Friendly games
Post by: Halfling on November 14, 2015, 12:16:04 AM
A great game with my favourite expansion.  The game could've gone either way right up to the last tiles.  Very enjoyable and congrats again Jungleboy.
Title: Re: Friendly games
Post by: jungleboy on November 14, 2015, 12:26:50 AM
Another thing to mention is that halfling needed only a corner road tile to join his barn farm to my (larger) barn farm with about 12 tiles left. But by complete luck of the draw, I drew all three remaining corner road tiles and he was never able to join it.
Title: Re: Friendly games
Post by: jungleboy on November 15, 2015, 11:54:25 AM
Another friendly game with halfling, this time with I&C and M&W.

I managed to close a cathedral city with mage for 100 points, so that was effectively the end of the game. Halfling kept fighting but the deficit was too great.
Title: Re: Friendly games
Post by: Halfling on November 16, 2015, 05:36:24 AM
Anyone else ever scored 100+ in a single city?
Title: Re: Friendly games
Post by: danisthirty on November 16, 2015, 05:42:19 AM
Only against an AI opponent (and a pretty dumb one at that)...
Title: Re: Friendly games
Post by: jungleboy on November 16, 2015, 06:16:52 AM
Only against an AI opponent (and a pretty dumb one at that)...

Don't speak about your daughter that way!! :)
Title: Re: Friendly games
Post by: danisthirty on November 16, 2015, 07:37:41 AM
Only against an AI opponent (and a pretty dumb one at that)...

Don't speak about your daughter that way!! :)

I'm going to tell her you said that. I imagine you'll be on the receiving end of some pretty serious Ninja Fairy Magic...
Title: Re: Friendly games
Post by: Halfling on February 03, 2016, 01:13:12 PM
played and lost to a work colleague today!
Title: Re: Friendly games
Post by: danisthirty on February 03, 2016, 01:40:41 PM
I'm guessing that clubb closed the city with all those lovely trade goods? Tricky to match that!
Title: Re: Friendly games
Post by: Halfling on February 07, 2016, 04:59:16 PM
Hi Dan,

Yes he did.  A close game.  I preferred the original game that we were playing but JCZ hung with a nullpointerexception error so we had to restart.

regards Halfling
Title: Re: Friendly games
Post by: Halfling on June 14, 2016, 01:48:54 PM
A very close game against Adrornalin
 :yellow-meeple: Halfling 117
 :red-meeple: Adror 98

Thanks for the game, hope to play again soon.
Title: Re: Friendly games
Post by: Adrornalin on June 23, 2016, 03:42:04 PM
I thought I share this very enjoyable friendly game vs Merlin_89, even if I lost 351 to 380. We played with T&B, A&M and the Fliers. It went well for both of us in the beginning, I placed my farm in the north, he placed it a few tiles later in the south, points were nearly equal. Since I recognized, that his towns developed better in the south than mine in the north, I got the chance to connect both farms with a cloister and I did it. After that, a lot of farming started. In the end, Merlin deserved the win, because he realized the quickfarming opportunities sooner than me. The results difference of ~30 points is exactly what one farmer+pig earned.

One strange thing occured with the big town in the east: I occupied it with my major quite a long time, then his major was about to fly in. The dice showed two and his yellow major flew directly on my red majors position. But it was displayed only my red major on top, the yellow major was behind and not visible in my view. (Maybe it was the other way round in Merlins view?!) So I thought he forget to place it before or after rolling the dice or anything like that. I'm not sure anymore but in the first moment I thought I saw his major back on the right side, where all meeples are waiting for action. Finally, after building and building onto the big city myself, Merlin finished it with placing the abby and I was completely confused about that move, as I thought my major is the big boss in there. But he had a very close neighbour  :)) :))

Conclusion: Great game!! O0 And there is always a lesson to learn with Carc and JCZ.
Title: Re: Friendly games
Post by: Hounk on June 24, 2016, 12:41:07 AM
Normally it should show in JCZ, if two meeples share a tile, but one of them would only be like a second outline of the other one.

However, looks like you had a great game. I also like the combination of these expansions. Barn and Pig is awesome, as is Mayor and Fliers.
Title: Re: Friendly games
Post by: Halfling on July 15, 2016, 01:34:04 PM
Enjoyed a friendly with Adrornalin a couple of days ago.  The River, Inns & Cathedrals, Festival and Mage and Witch.  It was a close match thoroughout but Adror won thanks to his superior farming skills.
Title: Re: Friendly games
Post by: Adrornalin on July 15, 2016, 02:54:31 PM
..and another one. this time with T&B, A&M, Winter, Fliers and Phantom. Halfling took the far lead until the middle of the game, then it got closer, but I was behind the whole time. I achieved to turn it around with the last tiles, because my builder did some good work, while his builder had not enough space in his city to continue on working ; ) so out of the last, lets say 10 tiles, 7 were mine. this was a big advantage and because I saved my abby wisely I could close the last battled city in the south, which got me important points by goods and farmer.
It was an enjoyable game, with no farming points with farmer sneaking on the barns, because the amount of cities developed late, and with no meeple trapping because both sides had always a much better reason to use their tiles for own advantage than for opponents disadvantage.
thanks Halfling for playing!
Title: Re: Friendly games
Post by: Halfling on July 19, 2016, 03:11:49 PM
 :yellow-meeple: Halfling 202
 :blue-meeple: Whatif 170
An impromptu game against Whatif that was decided by the big city that I was lucky enough to complete and glom in a third meeple.
Title: Re: Friendly games
Post by: Halfling on July 22, 2016, 03:27:36 PM
 :black1-meeple: Halfling 94
 :yellow-meeple: Jere 83
You can't play too many Tower games!
Title: Re: Friendly games
Post by: Adrornalin on July 27, 2016, 01:54:42 AM
I want to add: We should play more BCB games!  ^-^
Thanks to WhatIf, it was fun to play.
(BCB+IC+Winter+Siege)
Title: Re: Friendly games
Post by: Jéré on July 30, 2016, 05:21:42 AM
I want to add: We should play more BCB games!  ^-^

Seems like people voted for this expansion for the next league... Even though, in theory, it shouldn't be before the end of this year (I expect early 2017), I'd be keen to practice. Feel free to contact me!
Title: Re: Friendly games
Post by: Halfling on August 03, 2016, 01:00:31 PM
 :yellow-meeple: Halfling 107
 :blue-meeple: Whatif 102

A quick base game only friendly.
Title: Re: Friendly games
Post by: Adrornalin on August 05, 2016, 04:28:37 PM
Incredible good game played by JoeS Whatif and me. we used T&B, P&D, BCB, GQ11, Festival, Gold, Phantom. nearly every drawn tile was cruel and changed situations and everyones options a lot. additionally the dragon was super-hungry sometimes.

I completely ignored the battle for the big city north-east, placing a castle nearby was never possible, and concentrated on entering and saving some good farmers places, after the dragon ate two of Joes farmers who had the farm lead at that time. WhatIf made a little mistake with moving the dragon and had to eat his own meeple who saved 3 gold nuggets on a road. Luckily I draw a magic portal and placed a meeple on the cloister in the middle on the now closed road of gold. With some tactical chosement of bazaar tiles, I took the point lead till the last few tiles. Then I also made a mistake by moving the dragon and it ate again two yellow and a red farmer in the south-east on the big farm, so black was now 2:1:1 in front. But that move turned out to be indirectly advantageous for me, because I teased the others with placing a farmer directly next to the dragon so they had to decide which direction, and I could connect my farmer again to the east farm with the very next tile. So I was in front, but WhatIf very close behind. Luckily he couldnt take the majority in the big city, where Joe kicked his waiting meeple out with the princess with his last tile.

So now I had one tile left, the CRFR tile in the south. I placed it next to WhatIfs nearly finished city, which would have given him the overall win, and I placed a meeple plus the phantom meeple on it, to secure my last chance making some points on the big farm and to prevent WhatIf from closing his city easily. Finally, he really draw a fitting tile (that CFFF tile with the dragon symbol), put a bridge on it and closed his city, but with same step my two farmer meeples went on the farm from both road sides! 3:2:1 now, 44 pts and victory was mine - I thought. but I forgot the dragons last journey. Luckily he stopped one tile away from one of my farmer.

What a competitive game, I totally forgot time. Everyone of us had deserved to win that friendly. Thank you guys, that was so much fun! We should have recorded it haha
Title: Re: Friendly games
Post by: Decar on August 06, 2016, 12:37:36 AM
 :o :o Great looking game guys!  How long were you playing?
Title: Re: Friendly games
Post by: Adrornalin on August 06, 2016, 02:57:06 AM
That's a good question. I don't remember. Maybe 2,5h.

If possible, we arrange a re-match today, same place, same time.  :)
Title: Re: Friendly games
Post by: Chuck on October 08, 2016, 08:51:01 PM
Friendly game against WhatIf:

 :blue-meeple: Chuck 98 -  :yellow-meeple: WhatIf 79

Title: Re: Friendly games
Post by: Halfling on October 13, 2016, 06:55:18 PM
3 way game with Chuck and What if

What if gained the victory.

Good game.
Title: Re: Friendly games
Post by: kettlefish on December 23, 2016, 11:14:34 AM
I've played with Valheruu a friendly game - CC-base game - today.

kettlefish 119 - Valheruu 107

It was a fun game. Early in the game was a fight for the big city.
I had 3 Meeples inside and Valheruu 2 Meeples. I've got the right tile
to close the city with the last 10 tiles or so.

Thanks for the game Valheruu.
Title: Re: Friendly games
Post by: kettlefish on December 29, 2016, 05:34:46 AM
Today I thought to play a friendly game against danisthirty, but he was not online. Jungleboy instead likes to play. So we played a base game.
I have to say, jungleboy is a great player. I've asked about a really friendly (just for fun or funny) game - build together big cities without the hard fight for the mayority. He decided to play more tournament like hard. In the first part of the game he has more than 30 points more than me, but I was lucky to get back the mayority of my big city and I was happy to get the tile to finish that city. Than we run the most time with simular score. Jungleboy didn't get the mayority only for himself at the big farm - we both have one farmer placed onto the farm. I've placed some farmers onto smaller farms too.

Thanks for the game jungleboy - perhaps we can play again even that you prefer to play more tournament like...
I see I have a small chance to win - but I am not sure if  I would win the next time.

The final score:
kettlefish 122 / jungleboy 120
Title: Re: Friendly games
Post by: jungleboy on December 29, 2016, 06:47:24 AM
Thanks for the game and review!
Title: Re: Friendly games
Post by: kettlefish on December 30, 2016, 01:25:17 PM
Jungleboy and I played again the base game - the revange.
This time jungleboy was happy to win with almost the last few tiles.
It was a very interesting game, because till almost to the end we don't know who will get the importent few points more than the other player.
jungleboy: 102 - kettlefish: 97

With both games - jungleboy win the match with a score difference of 3 points.
Here in both games was jungleboy the start player.

jungleboy, thank you for the game.
Title: Re: Friendly games
Post by: Halfling on August 05, 2017, 12:27:09 PM
A 4 way game with TheSteveAllen, NY and Thodekey.

Thanks all for an enjoyable evening.
Title: Re: Friendly games
Post by: thodekey on August 05, 2017, 12:30:04 PM
Don't forget to mention the new record in "longest keeping the 0 on the scoreboard", won by yours truly.  ;)
Title: Re: Friendly games
Post by: Halfling on August 05, 2017, 12:54:19 PM
Hmm.  You had a barn in play for a while.  Not sure I can award the record tonight.
Title: Re: Friendly games
Post by: MrNumbers on September 08, 2017, 01:13:39 PM
Just had a very enjoyable game with B1nder.
We took 2 expansions each: my pick were T&B and Phantom, B1nder chose I&C and Crop Circles.
Score doesn't represent the outcome correctly: B1nder is a very good opponent and fought till the end. He just didn't familiar with Crop Circles mechanics, so he just kept adding more and more robbers to his already dead road. I was able to take away 32-points farm only with 3 tiles to go, and with last tile I took 15 points farm (from which I was forced to remove a farmer earlier).
Once again, thanks for a nice game, B1nder!