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Re: Princess & Dragon League: Groups D1 - D9
« Reply #45 on: April 14, 2016, 04:15:34 PM »
If I learned anything on this P&D league is that "It ain't over till it's over" but I did have a lucky draw on the last third of the game.
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Re: Princess & Dragon League: Groups D1 - D9
« Reply #46 on: April 14, 2016, 04:23:38 PM »
First of all I needed one (1!) cloister to get my meeple at the right back but it never came. Chooselife had all the other cloisters in the game.

Hmm. Apparently your luck changed in the following game... :o

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Re: Princess & Dragon League: Groups D1 - D9
« Reply #47 on: April 14, 2016, 04:27:51 PM »
'Carcassonne is like a box of chocolates, you never know what you're gonna get'

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Re: Princess & Dragon League: Groups D1 - D9
« Reply #48 on: April 14, 2016, 11:42:30 PM »
'Carcassonne is like a box of chocolates, you never know what you're gonna get'

Hopefully it's not marzipan or I'm taking it out of my mouth and putting it back in the box...

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Re: Princess & Dragon League: Groups D1 - D9
« Reply #49 on: April 15, 2016, 02:31:36 PM »
My game with Leven:





Go Dragons! :(y) :(y) :(y)

A very close game from start to finish. We both led at points, but neither of us ever managed to build up much of a lead before the other caught up.

The battle for the farm was intense. I claimed it first, and secured it with a second farmer just to be sure. After this, it was all-out farmer wars with lots of very optimistic creative (though in most cases successful) attempts to join the farm from both of us. I threw pretty much everything I had at the farm once we were down to 30 tiles or so to go but kept 1 or 2 meeples back for safety. Leven was slightly more conservative in his approach but ended up losing meeples to 2 cities which prevented him from attacking the farm more ferociously once I'd managed to take it outright (4 farmers against 3).

The dragon hurt me more than it hurt Leven, but wasn't especially destructive for either of us other than the 2 farmers of mine that got eaten. I wasn't counting the tiles very closely, but I could see 11 dragon symbols on the board towards the end of the game and so was expecting there to be one more as I knew there were 12 in total. As it turned out, Leven was expecting exactly the same thing, but both of us had missed one of the dragon tiles that had already been placed as it had a meeple on top of the dragon symbol! So, while we were both surprised about this, it didn't affect the outcome of the game and despite Leven's small lead at the end of the game + 3 incomplete cities, the 33-point farm was what won the game for me.

Very well played Leven. I hope your game with jungleboy is as tense and enjoyable as this one was... :) :(y)
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Re: Princess & Dragon League: Groups D1 - D9
« Reply #50 on: April 15, 2016, 10:39:31 PM »
Well done Dan on securing 4th place in the tournament. Now Leven and I will play a winner-take-all game for 5th place.

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Re: Princess & Dragon League: Groups D1 - D9
« Reply #51 on: April 16, 2016, 01:43:19 PM »
Well done Dan on securing 4th place in the tournament. Now Leven and I will play a winner-take-all game for 5th place.

And I managed to claim 5th place through another very tense game. The key for the comforting point difference was that this time I was able to not lose the battle for the main farm (it was tied with 3 farmers each). Jungleboy would have needed an FRXX tile to join another farmer (at the bottom left corner), but there was only one of that kind within the last 10 or so tiles (but of course neither of us knew that), and that one luckily came to me.
Princesses and magic portals were also in favour of me. E.g. once jungleboy successfully glommed into my quite valueable city (at the bottom right corner), but a few tiles later I could remove his knight with the help of a princess.

Well played, jungleboy, thanks again for this exciting game.

Final result:

 :green-meeple: jungleboy vs  :violet-meeple: Leven 116:145

Go fairies! :)
« Last Edit: April 16, 2016, 01:53:50 PM by Leven »

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Re: Princess & Dragon League: Groups D1 - D9
« Reply #52 on: April 16, 2016, 01:52:34 PM »
Well done Leven and Dan. D2 was brutal so I can't imagine how tough the D1 games must have been!


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Re: Princess & Dragon League: Groups D1 - D9
« Reply #53 on: April 16, 2016, 01:58:28 PM »
Here comes the x-score list - CarcC-PD-league-group D2 - 16 04 2016:

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Re: Princess & Dragon League: Groups D1 - D9
« Reply #54 on: April 16, 2016, 02:03:32 PM »
Well done Leven and Dan. D2 was brutal so I can't imagine how tough the D1 games must have been!

Are they over?

@MrNumbers, Merlin_89: is there a new time for your all-decisive game?

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Re: Princess & Dragon League: Groups D1 - D9
« Reply #55 on: April 16, 2016, 07:14:52 PM »
Well, I finally got the Dragon off my back, and won a game with P&D.

Played against ny1050220, and had an interesting game. Took a while before any P&D tiles appeared, so much so that I thought I may not have checked the right box when setting up the game.

It was a reasonably even start, with us sharing a city (ny actually had more meeples, but a hungry dragon saw to that), until he got the last tile that included a princess. That gave him 32 points. Things stayed like that, until I got a 22 point city in similar a situation. I drew the princess tile to finish the city, one that we each had a meeple in. Went to click to remove his meeple, and nothing. It would not be moved. Fainally, ny pointed out it was on the cloister, not the city itself.

The end of the game was a bit of a drag race for me to get the advantage on the big farm. I managed to squeeze ahead there, and managed to eek out a win by completing a city and road with the last tile.
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Re: Princess & Dragon League: Groups D1 - D9
« Reply #56 on: April 17, 2016, 09:52:11 AM »
I could be available Tuesday  and Wednesday night. (Halfling y J Atomico).

if someone was available let me know.

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Re: Princess & Dragon League: Groups D1 - D9
« Reply #57 on: April 17, 2016, 01:09:36 PM »
@kettlefish - Thanks for the scores! :) :(y)

@Leven - Not heard anything about the re-scheduled match between MrNumbers and Merlin_89. I guess both are getting in plenty of practice to make sure their game is as sharp as possible!

@Andrew the Ambo - Congratulations on your win. And just 6 points as well! 8)

@Halfling and JT Atomico - Please see message from jma03 and arrange a match with him via PM/ email while he is available if possible! C:-)

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Re: Princess & Dragon League: Groups D1 - D9
« Reply #58 on: April 17, 2016, 02:15:25 PM »
D5 - I will play my game with Decar on Tuesday.

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Re: Princess & Dragon League: Groups D1 - D9
« Reply #59 on: April 18, 2016, 12:29:41 PM »
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