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Carc Central Community => Online Games and Competitions => Leagues (including expansion leagues) => Topic started by: danisthirty on January 20, 2016, 08:07:11 AM
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Princesses:
- Carcking
- Chooselife
- Chuck
- Halfling
- jungleboy
- kettlefish
- khalidqasrawi
- MrNumbers
- Rich_The_Fish
Please read the following tournament notes/ guidance/ rules before continuing:
1. Players have already been divided into three different groups ("Dragons", "Princesses" and "Fairies"). Each player will play one game of Carcassonne against every other player in their group individually via a series of 2-player/ head-to-head games. The winner of each game will be awarded two league points whereas the loser gets nothing. If the game is tied, both players receive one league point each.
2. Players in each group will be ranked according to the number of league points they have scored. PD (Points Differential) will be used as an initial tie-breaker if there is no clear winner based on league points alone, and total combined score (from all games) will be used as a second tie-breaker if necessary. Your PD is calculated by taking the total number of points scored by you and subtracting the total number of points scored against you (combined across all games).
3. Games will be played online through the latest stable version of JCloisterZone (currently 3.4.2). Please ensure you have downloaded this and are familiar with its controls and features before the competition begins. It is also recommended that you have played at least one practice game against a live opponent (as opposed to a dead one) in order to identify and resolve any technical problems before your first game.
4. JCloisterZone includes a number of artificial aids such as farm hints, projected scores and even tile-counting assistance. I can't stop you from using any of these, and won't know if you do, but I do urge you to play under "exam conditions" as far as possible so that you're relying purely on your own wits, knowledge and experience rather than using anything else to help you. I know it's a competition and we all want to win, but let's keep it fair, fun and friendly as far as possible...
5. Each game will include the basic tiles plus the Princess & Dragon expansion only (no other expansions please). This is 102 tiles including the start tile, so 101 tiles will be shuffled and randomly drawn for you and your opponent in turn. The starting player should be chosen at random through JCZ by selecting the “Randomize seating order” checkbox on the pre-game screen.
6. If any unexpected behaviour occurs during your game (for example if you think you have discovered a bug within JCloisterZone which may have altered the course of the game for you), please consult with your opponent and the CAR/ anyone else who happens to be in the chat room at the time to determine whether it appears to be a genuine bug. If it is, please save your game and post details of the bug along with anything else relating to how it came about on the forums. If however, you and your opponent are both happy to continue with your game despite the bug then feel free to do so, but don’t forget to mention the bug afterwards no matter how minor it may have seemed!
7. Please post a screenshot of your game, including final scores and score breakdown, back to your group thread as soon as your game is complete. It's always interesting to hear what happened during the game too, so please feel free to post any thoughts/ comments at the same time if you wish. If you're not sure how to capture/ post screenshots, please ask on the forums and either myself or someone else will explain how to do this (we're a friendly bunch!)
8. It is the players responsibility to liaise with their fellow group-members in order to find a mutually convenient time to play their game. This is expected to be done predominantly through Private Messages but feel free to use your group thread (here) too if this is easier. Please do keep any appointments you make, or at least give your opponent as much notice as possible if something occurs which prevents you from playing at the agreed time.
9. Each of the 3 initial groups contains 9 players so the first stage of the competition will end when every player (all 27 of us) has played 8 games. At this point, the pool will split into 9 groups of 3 depending on finishing position in the initial groups. So, the top-ranked Dragon, Princess and Fairy will form group D1, and those who came second in each group will form group D2. The same will be true for groups D3 to D9.
10. Play in groups D1 to D9 will constitute the second stage of the competition which will run in the same way as the first except with more groups and fewer people per group. League points, PD and total score will be reset at this point (but remembered for overall stats) so that no single player in any group has any kind of advantage. Finishing positions in groups at the second stage will determine overall rank: 1st=D1-1, 2nd=D1-2, 3rd=D1-3, 4th=D2-1, 5th=D2-2, ..., 23rd=D8-2, 24th=D8-3, 25th=D9-1, 26th=D9-2, 27th=D9-3.
Finally, you may find the following links helpful: Carcassonne Central IRC Chat (http://sydby.com/carcassonne/irc/index.html), JCloisterZone (http://jcloisterzone.com/en/), and this (http://www.mainelypet.com/bonding_bearded_dragon).
The competition is now on! Good luck everyone... :) :(y)
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Hi to All
I'll not address everybody as Princess as I believe the only one here is kettlefish.
I'm usually able to play starting after 20h30/21h00 GMT all week (not counting Mondays and Thursdays).
Other times might be feasable but I'll need some hours in advance just to confirm if I'm able to be online or not.
So if you're online or need to schedule just sent me a PM. I'll put this thread on notify nevertheless.
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Well, let the games begin. I think I'll be in the chatroom later this evening, so feel free to play against me.
Looking at the groupmembers, I have the feeling, that there are some tough ones to play against!
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I am also usually available during the European evenings, and sometimes in the European afternoons as well. I'll go to the chatroom tonight at around 9:30pm CET.
Edit: Changed the time.
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I'm around now if any other Princesses are available.
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And the princesses are off and running!
jungleboy 194, halfling 171
The dragon took his time coming to this party, and didn't have a huge impact when he did. I started well by using the princess tile to remove halfling's knight from a shared city and then closed it soon after for 20+3 points. I also finished two cloisters by the middle of the game to halfling's one to keep the lead. Soon a dominant farm emerged and I decided to go all-out for it, putting three farmers into it in quick succession to safeguard against the dragon. As it turned out, none of the three were eaten so maybe I overcommitted here, but it's always better to be safe than sorry when a hungry dragon is patrolling the countryside.
I led by about 30 points in the middle part of the game but then halfling came back by closing a couple of mid-size cities, eventually closing the game to nine points towards the end. He also managed to glom onto the large city in the southeast but I was able to close it to share the points (+3 for me for the fairy) to ensure that he couldn't use the dragon to remove my knight.
Although halfling had a 15-point farm of his own at the bottom of the landscape, it was my 21-point farm that meant that I couldn't be overtaken in the final scoring.
Thanks for the game halfling and good luck in the rest of the tournament. May the dragon be with you!
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What a match between Chooselife and myself...
Chooselife 179 Chuck 176
In the beginning, I was able to place the dragon so, that in his first 6 steps he was able to munch 3 or 4 of Chooselifes Meeples.
I made a decent point advantage of about 30-40 points. There was a big city, where Chooselife had a knight in, I tried to get into that, but we needed a rccc tile to finish it and share the points. I didn't get it and Chooselife placed it on other cities.
I was able to finish 3 cloisters and lots of short and middle long roads, while Chooselife finished some longer ones.
He had the advantages in the cities, but I was able to place the dragon again at his Meeples and let the dragon eat 'em.
My pointadvantage shrunk because he finished the upper big city and he was able to place some good farmers who brought him the victory.
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Lucky to got on the lead 3 tiles from the end.
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It was a very good match! :(y)
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Guys and Princess, I should be able to play during today afternoon if anyone is interested.
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jungleboy 166, Chuck 151
A very close, tense and exciting game with a capacity crowd (Valheruu) on hand to watch.
The dragon was out early and in force. There wasn't much scoring early on because of it, but eventually we settled into the game and the dragon calmed down. Soon a main farm emerged and I tried to get quite a few meeples into it. Two or three got eaten by the dragon as the game went on but I kept adding them and ended up with four in it, for 21 points. (Chuck, meanwhile, scored the same 21 points from a variety of smaller farms.)
I was never able to finish the first city on the board because Chuck kept drawing the CRRF tile needed to close it. But I held onto that meeple virtually the entire game despite the dragon's best efforts, and the 12 points I got from that incomplete city was nearly the difference in the game.
Chuck led for the middle part of the game, at one stage by about 25 points, but I came back by closing some mid-size cities and then took a similar lead myself. Chuck made a late charge with some farmers and other little scores and I was scared that I was about to lose my once-comfortable lead, but in the end I held on to win a close one.
Well played Chuck and good luck for the rest of the tournament!
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Thanks, jungleboy. It was fun playing against you.
Now I have to win some games, or I'll be out by the end of the first round....
I realized early, that it's gonna be hard to win, as you managed to secure your farm and the big city. In the middle I had bad luck with the drawing tiles but in the end I got lucky!
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Just to let you all know that I don't expect to be available again until Sunday night (European time). I have a party tonight and a two-day trip on Saturday and Sunday as part of the ongoing celebrations for junglegirl's birthday.
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I'll be again available the rest of the afternoon.
Just in case.
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Chooselife and khalidqasrawi,
where is the screenshot and the score please?
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Chooselife and khalidqasrawi,
where is the screenshot and the score please?
Khalidqasrawi won by 175 to 168.
(I've the screenshot but my desktop lan died on me. Will post asap.)
edit: Have to check on monday why the mail I sent from work to home with the screenshot didn't go through but at least I recovered my home lan so I'll try to pop up during the weekend.
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I like to play a league game today.
I am in the chatroom.
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Here comes the x-score list - CarcC-B-Princesses 23 01 2016:
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Thanks, kettlefish!
I'll be unavailable tonight, because I'll hopefully play a 6 Player Match in real-life. ;-)
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I'm in the chatroom for a little while if anyone wants to play a league game.
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khalidqasrawi 175, Chooselife 169
I did save the screenshots and have a few minutes to write up the game.
The game started with Chooselife dominating the board for the first 15 moves. I had an early success with the dragon with an annoying series of forced steps that had me equal on the city in the middle with my fairy on my meeple (+3) and get the cloister. That evened things up. I then started the battle for the farm which persisted for the whole of the rest of the game. Then Chooselife started building the mega city. It carried on getting bigger with a major battle for me to keep him from finishing it and me to attack. My heart totally sank when he placed the final piece on that city. I had one thought: win the farm at all costs. So we played on. In the final few moves the dragon got very busy and we ended up equal on the farm and I was super surprised to have won.
So for all the games big battles during the game, the points breakdown shows that the cloisters won it and yet they just weren't on my radar.
A very tough and tense game.
Thanks Chooselife.
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MrNumbers vs. Kettlefish
198:157
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MrNumbers / kettlefish
with one of the last few tiles MrNumbers was lucky and finished the big city on the left side. Two times I put his meeple away from that city (1x with dragon and 1x with the princess) but he was always lucky and got the right tiles to place again a meeple into that city.
MrNumbers had placed two meeple on the big farm. I put one away with the dragon.
And I was lucky with my last tile - I joined the big farm with my meeple.
But MrNumbers got more volcano tiles and dragon tiles - so my meeple have been eaten very often by the dragon...
And the princess put my meeple away from the city at the bottom of the landscape.
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I will be available from about 8:30pm CET tonight if anyone is keen for a league match.
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I might be around tonight, although it could be a bit later. I'll check in when I'm free and see if anyone is available.
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kettlefish 206 - Chooselife 183
It was a hard fight for the big farm. The dragon ate many meeple from Chooselife and from me. Chooselife was happy to join with the 3rd meeple into the farm with one of the last few tiles. I had only two meeple there.
As always it was a great game - the dragon is fat now - the princess did her job in the cities and the fairy protected often the meeple and gave many fairy points.
This expansion is so great.
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Greatly played by kettlefish my only hope was to try and sack the meeple on the big city but the last princess tile came to late. More than a just winner.
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Apologies, but I'm not going to be around tonight after all - still trying to fix my neighbours laptop.
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jungleboy is online in the chatroom - he wants to play a league game.
But I have no more time today for playing a league game.
MrNumbers - will you play a league game ?
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:yellow-meeple: Halfling 168 - :blue-meeple: Chuck 133
Another loss for me...
The Dragon came very late in the game, even the last drawn tile made him move.
The game was even most of the time, I was able to put a farmer on the big farm early, and he made it through the entire game.
But Halfling was able to put two farmers on the farm too, so I had to struggle to get another meeple in. With one of the last tiles, I was able to made the farm even, but Halfling had the farm on the bottom. Meanwhile he was able to get ahead with about 10 Points. But I got back at him thanks to a road and the fairy.
He took almost all of the cloisters, and that was the point difference in the end.
Thanks for the good game, Halfling! :(y)
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MrNumbers vs. Jungleboy
175:110
I didn't feel difference will be so big, jungleboy was doing everything right: fought for the farm, for the cities, but I was keeping to draw dragon tiles over and over again and it really helped to save my farmers intact :) Two big cities was completed by me, but farm was equalized only 4 tiles before the end of the game. If very last tiles would come vice versa, I would steal farm all by myself and the difference would be even bigger. Still, well played, jungleboy! Good luck on remaining games!
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This game was brutal. Early on I accidentally removed my own knight with the princess when I thought I was moving the fairy. And then it just went downhill from there and I was never able to catch up. Congratulations to MrNumbers on a comprehensive victory.
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Congratulations all! It looks like there have been some great games already and I've really enjoyed reading all the write-ups.
This game was brutal. Early on I accidentally removed my own knight with the princess when I thought I was moving the fairy.
Ouch. Still, if I was playing against someone who did that I'd think they'd done it out of supreme confidence and would be nervous about why they'd done it and what I was missing. ???
:yellow-meeple: Halfling 168 - :blue-meeple: Chuck 133
Another loss for me...
Sorry Chuck. I'm sure that elusive win will come soon enough. Congratulations on your enthusiasm so far though! :) :(y)
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Sorry Chuck. I'm sure that elusive win will come soon enough. Congratulations on your enthusiasm so far though! :) :(y)
No problem, since this is my first Championship, I don't feel bad about it. I see it as a process of learning. And the matches are great fun. :-)
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Sorry Chuck. I'm sure that elusive win will come soon enough. Congratulations on your enthusiasm so far though! :) :(y)
No problem, since this is my first Championship, I don't feel bad about it. I see it as a process of learning. And the matches are great fun. :-)
Excellent. That's exactly as I've always intended them to be! :) :(y)
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Thanks for the game last night Chuck. I didn't realise you were on a loosing streak too. After going behind 25 to 7 early on I thought I was going to be playing catch-up again but that wasn't the case.
For sure the biggest disparity was the monasteries. I had just about all of them but I was unable to score 2 thanks to an oversized reptile that scared off my meeples. I was out-meepled in the city top left when Chuck drew the CCCC tile and completed it. The portals all arrived early and were of no use. The dragon came late and caused the usual mayhem.
A very enjoyable end to the weekend. Hope we can play again soon.
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Chuck, I am on 4 losses in our group.
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This game was brutal. Early on I accidentally removed my own knight with the princess when I thought I was moving the fairy.
Ouch. Still, if I was playing against someone who did that I'd think they'd done it out of supreme confidence and would be nervous about why they'd done it and what I was missing. ???
Even though MrNumbers joined the empty city on his next turn and completed it soon after, I completed a cloister and some other things and took the lead once or twice with the scores in the 20s and 30s. So this stupid move didn't doom me. MrNumbers played the dragon well in the middle part of the game and maybe I should have done better in protecting some of my followers by surrounding them with more tiles. Very often I was either forced into eating my own followers with the dragon or moving the dragon to a spot where MrNumbers could remove my followers with his next dragon move.
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Here comes the x-score list - CarcC-B-Princesses 25 01 2016:
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Hi fellow Princesses, I'll be online on Wednesday from 7pm-9pm UK. Hope to play 2 matches if anyone available.
Halfling
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I should be available during the day, not that sure on the evening.
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I should be available tonight from 8pm CET in case Carcking, Chooselife, kettlefish, khalidqasrawi or Rich_The_Fish are available.
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I just played a very close game with Chooselife. Score: jungleboy 158, Chooselife 152.
Chooselife had two chances to join another farmer to the main farm with one tile left, but he didn't draw the tile(s) he needed (FFFX or FRXF) so I escaped with a victory. This was a tight game throughout and could have gone either way at any point.
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Another close call. >:( :( :'(
You had two frrr tiles that could had avoided my farm joining on the below left loop road but didn´t do it which gave me some hope on the final tiles drawing but no luck there.
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Another close call. >:( :( :'(
You had two frrr tiles that could had avoided my farm joining on the below left loop road but didn´t do it which gave me some hope on the final tiles drawing but no luck there.
I didn't know that farmer could join the main farm (I didn't notice the road tunnel tile). So actually, I didn't realise until the final scores that that farmer was attached to the main farm and that the farm was tied instead of me winning it.
So, basically, you deserved to win.
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the crcr with the tunnel is a game changer on P&D and usually goes unnoticed
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jungleboy 176 kettlefish 144
My strategy was a bit dangerous in this game but it paid off. I had 3 farmers in the main farm (later 4) for most of the game and 2 knights in a large city. Kettlefish led for most of the game while I often had 0 meeples, but eventually I completed the large city for 44 points with about 30-35 tiles to go. I then used those meeples to pick up some other small scores here and there while making sure the dragon didn't eat any of my farmers. The farm was worth 36 points so this was the difference in the end.
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Evening all. Just got in - things have been somewhat hectic recently! However, I should be free just after 7pm UK time tomorrow for a few hours and also probably Friday from 8pm. I'm looking forward to playing my first league game, although if I'm honest I am a little apprehensive that you guys will be experienced masters by now! Anyway, hopefully see some of you in the chatroom tomorrow eve (although PM me if you want to schedule a time). Cheers
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Just to let you guys know, I'm online and in the chatroom should anyone fancy a game.
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I'll be available in an hour or so if you're still around Rich. Edit: probably more like 1.5 hours.
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I'll be available in an hour or so if you're still around Rich. Edit: probably more like 1.5 hours.
I'll try to be but it will depend on how the kids behave at bedtime (the Mrs is out so I'll be in trouble if they're still up). Thanks for letting me know you're around later.
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MrNumbers vs. Halfling
169:146
Very tense and enjoyable game with Halfling! Dragon had much work to do, it constantly ate my farmers, but I managed to get them back on the same farm. Near the end, with a help of the portal I managed to steal the farm all by myself. Princess also was busy - twice I closed Halfling's city with a princess tile, leaving the city empty. Halfling hoped for a cloister with a road tile to add third farmer to the big farm, but I drew that tile (and connected mine). Halfling earned 28 points with his last tile (yellow "2"): closed his city with the Fairy and completed his cloister.
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Sorry for my absence in the last days, but I am sick. Fever, cough, you name it, I got it. :(
I hope to be back in action in the next days....
Reading here via tapatalk, so I can see how my oponents are doing! ;-)
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I finally managed to get my P&D league started and finally played my first match against Halfling. I'd managed a quick practice game with one of the kids last week, but I certainly wasn't very confident - particularly as last time we played against each other, Halfling beat me and won the beginners tournament so you could say that I had a score to settle! I'd like to say that it was a fairly friendly game (particularly considering it was against my team mate from the Dream Team competition), but it didn't take long until I drew a Princess and managed to remove his knight from a city to take the points for myself! Halfling used the Princess well and got several bonuses when completing features, which reminded me to try and do the same! I took a gamble and went farming quite early on, ending up with 5 farmers (4 of which were in the same huge field by the end). I spend quite some time with no spare meeples, but it paid off in the end as the farms proved to be decisive - we scored very similar points for roads, cities, cloisters and the fairy. It was a really enjoyable and pretty fast paced game, which kept us on our toes until the end. Thanks very much for the game.
:green-meeple: Rich_The_Fish : 185
:yellow-meeple: Halfling : 161
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Having taken a while to get my act together and start the tournament, my next opponent turned up just as I'd finished my first game. Despite coming into this from a close victory, I certainly wasn't confident, but now was going to be as good a time as any! To illustrate just how unsure I was, I got my excuse in right at the beginning of the game! Jungleboy and I both tend to play as green, but when I joined the game my colour of choice had already been taken. My opponent was very decent and offered to restart the game with neutral colours, but this was not going to be necessary – I quite like having an explanation if things didn’t go well!
The dragon didn’t hang about and appeared on the board when the very first tile was drawn. We both battled hard to ensure that neither of us got the upper hand, trying to share points for cities and roads. Jungleboy was very strategic in using the dragon, I assume he was thinking potential moves through before actually moving it – as a result my meeples frequently ended up being a tasty meal!
I took periodic screenshots during the game (mainly to help me with this write up), and looking back at them the scores were pretty close throughout a lot of the game. The first screenshot showed that with 38 tiles left there were just 3 points separating us at 38 v 35.
The 7 tile city in the southeast was fought over, with the FCCC Princess tile thankfully deciding the outcome in my favour, enabling me to claw my way back and sneak into the lead at 67 v 62 with 33 tiles remaining.
The next big feature to complete was the 8 tile city in the northeast, with the points being shared. Scores were still very close at 99 v 95 with 20 tiles left. There had been a long running battle for control of the city towards the west edge of the board (containing the monastery). Initially it looked like I’d be outnumbered 1:2, but the dragon had helped remove a couple of knights leaving it vacant. I took a bit of a gamble and placed a meeple in the virtually finished city thinking that even if it wasn’t completed it was still worth 13 points (at the time jungleboy commented that it was a big move and that it could end up being decisive). However, he hadn’t given up on it and used a portal to claim an edge on a FFFC tile, meaning that we’d share the spoils if a FFCC tile was drawn and placed. The dragon had been sitting just 2 tiles away from my knight for quite some time, so I kept moving the fairy to protect my follower and hoped that one of the few remaining dragon tiles wasn’t going to be drawn. As it happened, I got lucky (again) and the exact tile that I needed (with the lovely Princess) appeared, meaning that I could finish the city and claim all the points! It was now 134 v 109 with 17 tiles to go.
I couldn’t believe how things were going – I was still in with a chance, but was significantly outnumbered in the fields. Every time I tried to even up one of the fields for a share of the spoils, jungleboy skilfully managed to place another farmer and keep control. I managed to finally claim the road in the centre of the board after having battled for it throughout the game – at one point I’d managed to trap jungleboy at the top of the road meaning that only an RRRR tile would free him, but he outsmarted me with the dragon (again) and I ended up having to eat his trapped meeple (thus freeing it) rather than one of my own! Eventually though it did pay off, as I managed to draw the unusual RRRR tile (with the curved roads and portal) and managed to claim the now longer road for a cool 14 points.
I had no idea who was going to win until the final scores were revealed after the last tile was placed – I knew that I’d been totally outscored on the farms but hadn’t worked out by how many. It was an enthralling game and I was rather fortunate that I’d drawn some dream tiles – jungleboy played really well throughout the game but I guess it just wasn’t meant to be. Cheers for the game and chat afterwards.
Final scores were:
:red-meeple: Rich_The_Fish - 196
:green-meeple: jungleboy - 182
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Congratulations on your wins Rich! A merit for your detailed post-match reports; I really enjoyed reading them. 8)
Sorry for my absence in the last days, but I am sick. Fever, cough, you name it, I got it. :(
I hope to be back in action in the next days....
Reading here via tapatalk, so I can see how my oponents are doing! ;-)
Get well soon Chuck! :(y)
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Thanks Rich for the great game and the write-up! I enjoyed it even though I lost.
There had been a long running battle for control of the city towards the west edge of the board (containing the monastery). Initially it looked like I’d be outnumbered 1:2, but the dragon had helped remove a couple of knights leaving it vacant. I took a bit of a gamble and placed a meeple in the virtually finished city thinking that even if it wasn’t completed it was still worth 13 points (at the time jungleboy commented that it was a big move and that it could end up being decisive). However, he hadn’t given up on it and used a portal to claim an edge on a FFFC tile, meaning that we’d share the spoils if a FFCC tile was drawn and placed. The dragon had been sitting just 2 tiles away from my knight for quite some time, so I kept moving the fairy to protect my follower and hoped that one of the few remaining dragon tiles wasn’t going to be drawn. As it happened, I got lucky (again) and the exact tile that I needed (with the lovely Princess) appeared, meaning that I could finish the city and claim all the points! It was now 134 v 109 with 17 tiles to go.
For me this was the key to the game. It also showed how well the different elements of P&D work together. Even though it's not my favourite expansion, in my opinion it is definitely the best integrated one. Basically in this city, the dragon ate all three meeples, we both got back in using magic portals, and Rich finally claimed it by using a princess tile to close it and kick me out of it at the same time. So I think this city was a great example of how P&D can be played. After Rich closed this city I knew I couldn't win even though I had control of the farms.
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Get well soon Chuck! :(y)
Thanks, Dan!
Feeling better already, it's a wonder, what antibiotics and some sleep can do! :P
I hope to find some of the other princesses in the chatroom now, because now I have some spare time. I don't know what about later, since I don't know, what Mrs. Chuck and Little Chuck have in mind for me later on... ;)
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I hope to find some of the other princesses in the chatroom now, because now I have some spare time. I don't know what about later, since I don't know, what Mrs. Chuck and Little Chuck have in mind for me later on... ;)
Glad you're feeling better.
If you're still free, I can be ready in about 5 mins
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Sorry we missed. Mrs. Chuck and Little Chuck are home now. I hope, I'll be back later!
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Sorry we missed. Mrs. Chuck and Little Chuck are home now. I hope, I'll be back later!
Ok, no worries. I've not got much time tonight but should be avail tomorrow from about 8pm (UK).
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Hi Folks. I'm in the chat room if any of you folks want a game. I've got a good Internet connections too as I'm back at home. I should be in and out this evening (between unpacking, washing clothes etc.).
kq
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:red-meeple: Khalid 181
:green-meeple: Kettle 143
Dragon did a little early munching which worked to my advantage. I drew all the princess tiles which was nice for me because I was building cities which stopped Kettle grabbing my work. Also I managed to eject / complete 2 of her medium cities. I had a string early lead. I had a super city planned but Kettle halted development by a threatened "join" of her meeple. Kettle started agricultural activities early. Several times during the game I made a mental decision to "go big on farms" but kept getting tempted by the off road / city. During the middle game, Kettle was incrementally catching up. I was getting concerned so my moves started to take a little linger. Not much cloister action. The portal was useful once or twice. I "shared" a couple of Kettle's roads which worked out well.
With 20 tiles to go, there were still 7 dragon tiles left but the eating was shared, thankfully. I kept my lead and the farms ended up pretty equal.
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As khalidqasrawi said he was happy to get all the princess tiles - 2 of my meeple in cities has been replaced.
The dragon ate some of my meeple and his meeple joined my roads and the farm.
All time I had no choice. In the first half of the game - I've got to many road tiles and also cloisters, but I wouldn't like to put to many meeple on cloisters on the same time.
It was a nice game - but more for khalidqasrawi than me.
I did some stupid placements - really I didn't see that the meeple on the right farm has only the one city.
I had on the right farm a farmer too - but the dragon did his job, and I forgot to join with the other farmer the bigger farm...
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I should be online in about 10 mins should anyone fancy a game.
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Here comes the x-score list - CarcC-B-Princesses 29 01 2016:
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:red-meeple: khalidqasrawi 156
:green-meeple: Rich_The_Fish 135
Wow! I was losing for the whole game. Phew!
This was the only derby in our group, a north / south one at that so I was expecting a feisty game and that is what we got.
Rich_The_Fish took the advantage from very early on. Nice steady play from him whereas all my good guys were taken by the dragon and my stuck guys were, um, stuck. I tried to build another super city which had two meeps on it but Rich_The_Fish sent the dragon my way and took one. I fought so hard for that city for so long and eventually just needed a CCRR to finish it. Lucky Rich drew the CCRR with the Princess and killed my dream.
Rich_The_Fish was steadily earning but I noticed an opportunity. The farm was getting bigger. I had a near full complement of meeps, so when he placed the second cloister, I was able to trap both together. From then on it became a farm battle. The dragon ate some of my farmers but I had plenty of meeps and a bit of luck and forced more on and won the farm. Hooray. Even though he killed my city, I got the farm and won the match. Na-na-na-na-na.
p.s. beware the tunnel tile, the farm creeps around it!
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p.s. beware the tunnel tile, the farm creeps around it!
Yes, that was the most fatal flaw in my game. I hadn't realised that this CRCR tile had allowed another farmer into the main farm - if only we were allowed to use farm hints!! I was quietly confident after placing the last tile with the score tied at 102 v 102 and had 24 tied up in cloisters so thought I'd done just enough. In hindsight, I guess it didn't help that I wasn't aware that 2 of my cloisters couldn't be completed when their inhabitants became trapped with about 50 tiles left, or I would have sacrificed at least 1 monk to the dragon (I'd spent a long time during the game without any meeples in hand).
Still, it was a really enjoyable yet tense game - you played well Sir (especially with your astute use of farmers) and deserved the win. Congrats and well done.
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:green-meeple: kettlefish 162 - :blue-meeple: Chuck 146
The score was during the game very close. The dragon had enough to eat some of the blue meeple and some of the green meeple. The Princess was only one time active. Chuck was happy - he closed his big city with one of the last tiles. But I joined with my 4th farmer the big farm and - it was mine.
The tiles for the volcano and the dragon and the princess - I had the feeling that in this game each of us got regularly such tiles. The first volcano tile came late in the game - perhaps after 30 tiles.
Thanks for the game Chuck.
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I played my 4th league game with Chuck tonight. He was quick out of the blocks, claiming a 4 point city on his first go and then secured the second city whilst blocking me out making the score 2 v 19 with 80 tiles left. I managed to almost draw level, earning 12+3 points for the moustache-shaped city, despite having the dragon just 1 tile away for a couple of turns – thanks for your protective powers Fairy! However, Chuck clearly wasn’t worried and guided the dragon to consume a few of my helpless meeples and finished off another city for good measure. A few farmers started to appear and I managed to get back into a city after being displaced due to the Princess to claim a much needed 18 points, squeezing into the lead at 45 v 39 with 67 tiles to play.
Several 2 tile cities were completed next. Chuck continued with his cloister collection and I focused on a couple of long roads and extended the lead slightly to 74 v 58 with 53 tiles left, but Chuck had almost finished yet another city and his third cloister. I tried to prevent this cloister (bottom centre of the board) from being completed and make it difficult for his sole remaining farmer to join in with my farming fun! We both completed a city and received bonus points from the Fairy again, which saw the scores stand at 109 v 79 and just 37 tiles remaining.
The rest of the game saw a big battle for the 2 farms – I was fortunate enough to make it somewhat difficult for Chuck by trying to reduce the number of possible tiles so his farmers could join in, and unfortunately for him these tiles proved to be rather elusive. I took a punt and placed a CCFF to complete a city and used the Princess to remove Chuck’s knight despite it being protected by the Fairy despite not being convinced it would work! I used a portal to strategically place a farmer of my own above the bottom city which would have negated any impact if Chuck got one of his farmers from the south west into the field. However, he took a bit of a gamble and placed a volcano next to my newly placed farmer - this saw his cloister become complete and the dragon was just 1 tile away from said farmer and he looked a little hungry! Fortunately for me though, the farmer survived the dozen or so remaining tiles (there was only 1 dragon movement tile left by this stage). However, whilst Chuck didn’t get the desired tiles to join the main farms, he did build a large city in the north east which would have given lots of points had be been able to finish it.
It was an entertaining and pretty well balanced game, with the lead constantly changing during the first 50 tiles or so. We both made pretty equal use of the Fairy, often managing to get the 3 bonus points when completing a feature. The dragon was either a little off-colour or on a diet, as he didn’t devour all that many meeples, preferring to spend time heading randomly around the board towards dead ends rather than tasty morsels.
Thanks very much for the game Chuck, it was a good and entertaining battle.
Final scores were...
:black1-meeple: Rich_The_Fish – 177
:blue-meeple: Chuck – 135
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I have my game with Carcking at 4pm CET today. Then I will only have one game left - against khalidq. Khalid, I've sent you a PM.
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Rich, it was enjoyable playing against you and so was the reading of your summary! :-)
What I can say so far in this tournament: although I haven't played against many of you, all matches were good fun!!
Regarding my missing matches: I'm unavailable today and tomorrow till 7/8 pm due to family and friends.
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jungleboy 171 Carcking 148
A very enjoyable game with a top opponent. It was closer than the score indicated and with 5 tiles left Carcking was in a winning position until I got a bit lucky :)
There was some good use of the dragon throughout, and a good battle for the large, incomplete city in the northwest and for the main farm in the southeast. I drew 5/6 princess tiles, but couldn't really take advantage, as when I removed Carcking from the large city at one point, he got right back in on his next turn. Soon it became clear that the city was likely to be tied, and we turned our attention to the farm. Carcking was the first to get 3 in it but with 5 tiles left I finally drew the CRRR tile I had been waiting for almost the whole game to add my third farmer in the north. This tied the farm, and with points advantage I had been building up in the second half of the game, that was enough.
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:green-meeple: kettlefish 165 - :blue-meeple: Rich_The_Fish 164
Early in the game - Rich_The_Fish closed 3 cities and some roads - so he had many points
58 tiles left - RichTheFish has 51 points and I only 11
The dragon ate some of my meeple early in the game and the princess did her job too...
The first half of the game - I thought I would have no chance to win this match.
Later in the game the dragon got also some blue meeple.
But I have finished my big city - I've got the needed 2 tiles (1x cccc and 1xcfcf) - both were holes in the landscape before closing. My cloister and a road has been finished at the same time - and then I had enough meeple for playing - I put a farmer on the right farm and build there some small cities. And with one of the last tiles I joined with a 2nd farmer on the big farm on the right side - I've got the majority of this farm.
Rich_The_Fish had early two meeple on the left farm - and one meeple on the farm at the bottom of the landscape. I was lucky to get a tile which joined the 3rd meeple from Rich_The_Fish into the big left farm. So he didn't get 9 points for a separate farm.
With my last tile - I've got a tile with a magic portal - I put a meeple into a cloister with 6 tiles plus the just placed tile = 7 tiles = 7 points = 1 point for the win
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Wow, that was a really good game and you timed it to absolute perfection by making the winning move using the portal on the very last tile to earn 7 valuable points and winning by 1 point! I felt bad early on, as I tried hard to prevent you from scoring points without having to share them - I was pretty determined to win. However, you didn't lose heart and fought back well in the second half of the game. You deserved the win after successfully completing the large city earning 38 points (after repeatedly closing me out) and then claimed the most valuable farm worth 24 points and kept increasing your farmers as I tried to muscle in or eat yours with the dragon! There were several key moves that I hoped you hadn't seen, but you did and played very smart. Well done.
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Here comes the x-score list - CarcC-B-Princesses 30 01 2016:
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:green-meeple: kettlefish 204 - :red-meeple: Carcking 150
This game was great for me - not for Carcking - I am sorry for you.
Carcking played very well, but in this game were the tiles more friendly to me.
The dragon and the princess did a good job and the magic portal was also useful.
The fairy gave us many points.
Early in the game I have finished some cities and during the game we fight hard for the big farm.
Thanks for the game Carcking.
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Khalid and I just played a draw - 141 each!! I thought I had it locked up but he drew a princess tile on the last tile of the game and used it to remove my knight from a six-point incomplete city.
It was a tense and terrific game from start to finish. Khalid started well and built an early lead through the completion of several medium-sized cities. A huge city started developing in the centre-east of the landscape and we both fought hard for it. I was probably more aggressive though and usually had one more meeple in or around the city. One got eaten by the dragon, and it was 2-2 for a while until I used a magic portal to get another one nearby and then join it soon after. Khalid soon made it unfinishable but I thought the three-meeple investment was worth it for a 31-point incomplete city.
We also fought for a farm that ended up only being worth 12 points. Khalid had two farmers in it at one stage but both fell victim to the dragon, so I claimed it. But he won a 9-point farm elsewhere on the board.
It was Khalid who started building the incomplete city to the west but the dragon got his knight on the same turn that it took his nearby farmer. I jumped into the city a few turns later as the game neared its end just for the unfinished points that gave me a small edge. But Khalid got the princess tile he needed on his last turn and removed my knight.
In the end I think a draw was a fair result!
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Yes a great game jungleboy but I'd say that the draw was possibly generous to me. When I drew the RFRF dragon tile, the dragon was right next to your cloister and I should have just eaten on that move. I also didn't value the western city enough and I was just so lucky to boot you off it.
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I'll be available to play this evening at 10pm London time. If you want to play then, send me a message.
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Yes a great game jungleboy but I'd say that the draw was possibly generous to me. When I drew the RFRF dragon tile, the dragon was right next to your cloister and I should have just eaten on that move. I also didn't value the western city enough and I was just so lucky to boot you off it.
In hindsight I made a mistake on my last tile (CCFF splitter), which I could have placed exactly where you put your last tile. But with no meets left, I didn't want to complete the smaller unclaimed city to possibly create a 6-point farm for you to take on your last tile.
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:red-meeple: khalidqasrawi 214
:blue-meeple: Chuck 133
It was a fiery start with much early volcano and dragon action. It worked in my favour I think as I had a strong lead after about 30 tiles. The main farm had the volcano RFFF tile on it and that plus the partial depletion of dragon tiles convinced me to start farming, something I'd usually like to wait until later.
All the while I was building in vain the city at 5pm. It started as a sweet little thing. I was expecting a 3 tiles and close it with a fairy and that'll be a nice addition to my farm type thing but Chuck was rude and kept on trying to block me in it. But I got lucky with predicting the sequence of tiles. This expansion is heavy on CCCF tiles so leaving a hole shaped like that improved my luck! So it grew until it was a mature city and scored me 39 in the end.
I relaxed.
All the time though, Chuck was stealing points here and there and grinding down the difference but I'd trapped a lot of his meeples for much of the game so really I restricted him to tactical gains.
The final few moves saw some late farm activity and we had a collection of good farms so it was more a grab and take than fight.
A good fun game. Thanks Chuck.
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Yeah, I was running behind you. It's a pity to draw the ccff with volcano as first tile. So I got no points.
Another learner for me.
Good game, with the greatest margin of points for me so far.
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:yellow-meeple: Halflling 166 - :green-meeple: kettlefish 152
This was my last game in this princesses group
It was an intersting game. Halfling put often away my knights out of the cities with the princess.
I put his farmers away from the big farm with the help from the dragon. But it was not enough points.
During the game Halfling had all the time more points, but at the end of the game we both were a bit surprised that he has won in total, because he had no farm points. He earns many more points with cities than me.
Thanks for the game Halfling.
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Carcking 154 - Khalid 130
Khalid held the lead for much of the game as we fought back and forth for the big city in the southwest. Dragon play became relevant for the city. I sacrificed a follower trying to glom on in order to draw the dragon one space away from Khalid's only follower in the city. So for the moment the city was empty. I was then lucky enough to get right back in and was able to defend. Then I was lucky enough to draw the tiles I needed to close it. I was able to get an early lead on the big farm and was able to defend it throughout the game.
Thanks for the good game Khalid!
(https://www.dropbox.com/s/igwy4z18msbqsq6/khalid%20P%26D%20game%20020216.jpg/?dl=1)
(https://www.dropbox.com/s/i1zlsa2dyl0fhsf/khalid%20P%26D%20game%20map%20020216.jpg/?dl=1)
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A very enjoyable game with Kettlefish yesterday evening. I had the luck the tiles, not only using 2 princesses to oust Green Meeples but also picking out tiles to complete large cities which I failed to do in earlier matches in this tournament. The dragon was slow to arrive and when he did he stayed out on the top right and then the bottom right of the game. We both had farmers eaten in the middle of the game and then I thought the crushing blow was having both my remaining farmers eaten at about 3/4 point of the game. Kettlefish already had 3 farmers in the same field so I was playing farmer catchup. I had the lead at this point and continued to pick up small city and road points getting the +3 fairy bonus wherever possible. The removal of the second green meeple with the princess must have been the crucial move. The city was ultimately unfinished but I glommed in and then scored the points for it at the end. The biggest surprise was the final scores. I had zero farming points but won! I has assumed the farm gave Kettlefish the victory and was just enjoying myself for the last 10-15 tiles as it was far too late to get 3 farmers involved.
We had a good chat whilst we played and I thank Kettlefish for a fun and enjoyable hour with the tiles of Carcassonne.
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Good Afternoon All,
I'll be available till 17h00 GMT this afternoon.
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Here comes the x-score list - CarcC-B-Princesses 03 02 2016:
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Hi All,
I should be available this afternoon between 14h00 to 15h30 GMT.
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:blue-meeple: MrNumbers: 168
:black1-meeple: khalidqasrawi: 158
I tried so so hard to win and came within a whisker of it but MrNumbers held firm and gained a well deserved 2 points.
I joined the board with MrNumbers in red. He kindly agreed that we both play in our "away strips" as I think I felt handicapped in my last game with recognition issues. The start was pretty interesting. My first 4 tiles were RRFFs. The first file shows the end of the opening game. MrNumbers has all his meeples back and already a commanding lead and me with almost everything deployed but very few points to my name. The dragon hadn't really done much at the start of the game. I ended up making most of the points that those meeples were waiting for but not without a long wait. Meanwhile MrNumbers continued to pick off points here there and everywhere during the mid game. I drew lots of cloisters but just didn't have enough meeples in hand to take advantage of most of them.
The end game had me closing in on MrNumbers. He'd made some farm grabs, some of which bothered me and some which I decided there were better places to invest effort. Whilst I still needed points, half my attention was waiting to sort out the ugly truth of the city in the south. I had that classic sinking feeling when you know you have to add a shield tile to an opponents city to keep alive the prospect of glomming it or booting him off and reduce the chance that it's completed. I did manage to get a Princess on it to boot him off but he was back on within a few tile draws. The one chance I drew a useful tile to join him on it, I was out of meeples.
In the final few moves I thought maybe I could push through with a clever farm or a lucky cloister and it seemed there was a slight possibility but realistically, I was out of resources and out of time.
An excellent hard fought game. Well done MrNumbers, you are awesome.
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Yes, it was excellent, but very exhausting game. Khalid constantly was just around the corner in points, 3-4 tiles before the end of the game the difference was just 3 points! I was trying to trap some Khalid's meeples, but succeeded only once. Khalid had some great moves, for example, with cfcf splitter tile in the middle he simultaneously completed 2 cities and 1 cloister, scoring 25 points! I knew that my opponent likes late farming, so I was afraid he will start massive farm attack near the end. He actually did, but I was able to defend all my farms. Another task was not to let Khalid to connect to my unfinished city, which also wasn't so easy.
With this game Khalid proved that he is in ELO top-10 for a reason :)
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At last Khalid and I were online together. A very close game that was decided with the final tile which was a monastery with a single road. A frustrating end for Khalid as I was chasing him all the way and this was one of maybe two times in the whole game that I was ahead.
Khalid :red-meeple: 172
Halfling :yellow-meeple: 177
The dragon arrived late but he had his fill of meeples!
Thanks for the game.
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I'm feeling quite sore about this. The lesson is when you have the advantage, and play defensively, you will eventually lose. A lesson for life in general I suppose. Thanks for the game Halfing and well played.
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I'll be around today pretty much all day till 17h00 GMT.
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I'm available at 19:30 - 21:30 UK on Wednesday.
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Can anyone play at 11pm UK time on Tuesday night or Wednesday night?
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I think we have only 10 games left to play in this group, so get out your dragons and get playing :)
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I'm due to play MrNumbers tonight. Probably won't be able to play my 2 remaining games until after the weekend, but I'm off work next week so things should be much easier (particularly where time differences are concerned).
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Rich are you able by chance to play right now?
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Sorry I'm at work at the moment just taking a quick break. I might be avail during the morning or early afternoon tomorrow actually, are you free then by any chance?
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Will depend if the boss will (or not) be in the office. ;D but I'll advise.
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Will depend if the boss will (or not) be in the office. ;D but I'll advise.
Did you read the disclaimer at the bottom of the competition rules where I mentioned that I won't be held responsible for anyone losing their job as a result of being part of the competition? Just saying... ;)
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Will depend if the boss will (or not) be in the office. ;D but I'll advise.
Did you read the disclaimer at the bottom of the competition rules where I mentioned that I won't be held responsible for anyone losing their job as a result of being part of the competition? Just saying... ;)
Don't worry my boss knows on what he can count on.
When there is spare time we spare it and when there's not we work our ass off if needed.
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There need to be more bosses (and employees) like yours! :)
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MrNumbers vs. Rich_The_Fish
165:145
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MrNumbers vs. Chuck
165:90
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Well done on your wins MrNumbers, it's good to see you back on top form once again! :(y)
Sorry for your losses Rich and Chuck, but I hope you enjoyed your games... :)
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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. ;-)
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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! :)
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Oh, I didn't think about that! Well, I surely can hope to do at least a tie. :-D
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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).
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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 >:D :D
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Will be available in the afternoon.
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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 >:D :D
Talking about the pressure is on!
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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.
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... provided I don't need to do the school run!
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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 >:D :D
Congratulations on your success so far MrNumbers. Good luck to you too with your remaining games Carcking :) :(y)
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Back to the league games
Chooselife - 186 vs Rich_The_Fish - 139
(http://i.imgur.com/mveRtdG.jpg)
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.
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Here comes the x-score list - CarcC-B-Princesses 12 02 2016:
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Are Carcking or Chooselife around at 10:00 UK for a league match?
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Halfling,
I think Carcking will go to work - for him it is early in the morning...
Please send a PM to Carcking and to Chooselife and make an appointment for game play with them.
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A very close game where the lead changed hands constantly.
Chooselife :blue-meeple: 190
Halfling :yellow-meeple: 193
The dragon had a taste for blue meeples early on and then he wandered aimlessly.
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Chuck and I just finished our match. It was closer than the score shows. There was a good battle for the farm but I was able to defend with some lucky tile draws.
Early in the game the dragon ate two of my followers out of the central city so Chuck was left there alone and looking good. Then I drew a princess a few turns later and closed the city with no one in. That was lucky. That would have got Chuck's score to 163 + 3 for fairy if he was able to close it and score it.
Late in the game I needed the CCRR tile to close the big city at the top - again a lucky draw.
It was a fun and close faught match. Thanks Chuck!
(https://www.dropbox.com/s/fk4cqdzwlgo4om5/Chuck%20P%26D%20game%20score%20card%20021316.jpg/?dl=1)
(https://www.dropbox.com/s/fomgdk6si1zmu0j/Chuck%20P%26D%20game%20map%20021316.jpg/?dl=1)
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Thanks, Carcking!
I had a good lead during the game, but Carcking got the lead on the farm and I struggled to get my meeples onto it. As he wrote, he got lucky with the tile-drawing. I made some mistakes too because of baby-Chuck beside me. The last 20 tiles he slept on my left arm/shoulder. :D
So now I have to play against the "worst" players from the Dragons and Fairies. No offense, though!! ;)
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MrNumbers vs. Chooselife
160:162
First defeat. Two big cities, finished by Chooselife was enough to win, even I controlled all the farm.
With proper tile counting I could tie the game with my last two tiles, but I didn't do that. That's my lesson to learn - always fight till the very end.
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Just had a Real-Life training match with my wife. She seems to have a new favorite expansion now. ;)
We had the River III and the 10th anniversary expansion included too, as I was thinking, that the River III had the volcano included too.
As it isn't so, we are going to have another match with the River II later that day.
I lost by the way with 2 Points difference.... It seems, that I'm not into that P&D expansion. :D
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Chuck,
the River in the BigBox5 is the river I with some special parts like the sheep and the vine yards.
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It was the first time I played with River III, so I don't have much expierience. But I can see, that it is a good addition to the Sheep & Hills Expansion. :)
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MrNumbers v. Carcking
134:116
A very tense game, throughout the game I was chasing Carcking, and only near the end of the game luck was back to me, and together with the Dragon we sealed the deal :)
I made a screenshot of one game moment: I placed this volcano tile, when there were only upper and left farmer. It was gamble - who will draw next Dragon tile. As you can see at the final screenshot - it was me :)
Despite my 2-point loss to Chooselife I still was able to win the group and will try to stop Merlin_89's winning streak >:D :D
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Congrats MrNumbers on winning the group! Great result... Competing against you is not gonna be an easy ride for me.
Looks like, Fairy's winner could emerge very soon as well.
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I'll be around during working hours today and tomorrow.
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Congratulations and well done MrNumbers :(y). Please let me know when your match with Merlin_89 will take place so that I can watch and learn! ;)
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Congratulations and well done MrNumbers :(y). Please let me know when your match with Merlin_89 will take place so that I can watch and learn! ;)
Thank you, Dan! I'll let you know what the tickets selling start date will be ;D
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Congratulations and well done MrNumbers :(y). Please let me know when your match with Merlin_89 will take place so that I can watch and learn! ;)
Count me in as well!
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MrNumbers vs Merlin 89 this game is like FC.BARCELONA vs REAL MADRID .
I pay the entry if necessary
;D ;D ;D
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I'll take a ticket, too! :-)
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MrNumbers vs Merlin 89 this game is like FC.BARCELONA vs REAL MADRID .
I'd much rather watch Carcassonne being played! :P
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Here comes the x-score list - CarcC-B-Princesses 15 02 2016:
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Am I not confirmed as 2nd in the group? :)
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Am I not confirmed as 2nd in the group? :)
Congrats JB! Looks to me as though nobody can beat 11 points...
I won't be too disappointed if I can't finish my group in 2nd place now as I know at least one of my subsequent opponents :P
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in the princesses group are 3 games open:
- Carcking against
- Chooselife
- Halfling
- Rich_The_Fish
Please organize the games.
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Carcking and I started our match last night but JCZ crashed after 66 tiles. Scores are close and I have a saved game but we don't know how to recommence. I've reached out for advice.
We had a very active dragon, in fact the first tile out of the bag was a volcano!
Halfling
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That's a shame about the crash. Nothing like having a game suddenly die on you to kill the momentum too!
Please arrange a date\ time between you for when you'll both be free to continue. And email the savegame file to me. I will load the file and act as your host for the remainder of the game. Plus I'll track any missing fairy points as these can sometimes be missed after a crash for some reason.
Hope this works for you...
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Hi Carcking. I will be available tomorrow evening from 5pm UK time should you be free to play our game. I'll not be free on Sunday though as it's Mother's Day and we've got plans.
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An interrupted game was finally completed this evening thanks to Dan hosting for us. A much closer game than the scores show. Never more than 10 points in it until the final Dragon rampage took out 2 red farmers. 3 fairy points need to be added to the attached scores.
:yellow-meeple: Halfling 177
:red-meeple: Carcking 126
3rd place secured after a very poor start. Well happy with that.
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Princesses group:
two games left to play:
Carcking
against:
- Chooselife
- Rich_The_Fish
please organize the games.
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Hi Carcking. Given the time difference, the best available times for me in the next few days are either tonight after 8:30pm or tomorrow after 8pm (UK time). Hope you're free.
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This week as things stand I'm currently available tomorrow and Thu night from 8pm until 11pm, Fri 8pm until midnight and possibly Sunday afternoon. Hope you're free at some point Carcking.
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Here's a group update:
Games Outstanding:
Carcking vs. Chooselife
Carcking vs. Rich_The_Fish
Please make an appointment for game play. Write a PM to Carcking and organize the game.
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To be honest, I'm getting a bit fed up having kept all the times free that I've mentioned above just in case that he is available to play. I appreciate that the time difference really doesn't help matters, but it doesn't excuse the lack of contact (I hope everything is alright). Not sure when I might be available this week, but certainly not anytime over the Easter weekend. Possibly Wed evening after 8 would be best for me.
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Hi Carcking.
Just in case you are monitoring this thread (I've sent you a PM anyway), I was wondering if you were free tomorrow evening from 8pm onwards (UK time) to play our match? I'm rather tied up later this week as it's Easter weekend, so this is the only time that I'm free. It would be good if we can manage to schedule our game soon so that the tournament can progress.
Hope to hear from you soon.
Rich.
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From my side I'm not going anywhere on the Easter Holidays so any new post here or a PM, which I'll read more or less immediately on the mobile, should be enough to schedule a game.
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I should be playing my game with Carcking on Tue at 6pm Eastern Time / 11pm UK (if I've calculated it right).
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Unfortunately Carcking and I have been unable to play our game tonight. I had something urgent that I had to finish and despite my best efforts I couldn't make our arranged start time. It's now pretty late in the UK and Carcking has other commitments so we're unable to get started now. Regretfully, the next time that we can reschedule is for the same time next Tue night. This means that we'll have to drag on this round of the competition a bit longer - sorry! Given that it's my fault I couldn't play as arranged tonight, I am prepared to forfeit the game if needs be (i.e. if the other teams are waiting for us), so that it doesn't delay things any further. If I don't hear otherwise, we'll start playing in about 6 days and 23 hours time...
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Just finished game with Carcking. It's late so I'll just post the scores for now...
Carcking :red-meeple: : 203
Rich_The_Fish :green-meeple: : 188
Well played, an enjoyable and pretty tense game.
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Well played both. Speaking as one of the spectators, I can vouch for just how tense and enjoyable it was from start to finish!
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Is there a screenshot from the game with Carcking and Rich_The_Fish?
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I've got one which I can post tonight if there's not already one here. It was pretty late when we finished so I was keen to get to bed!
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Well played both. Speaking as one of the spectators, I can vouch for just how tense and enjoyable it was from start to finish!
Standing room only, I presume? O0
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Well played both. Speaking as one of the spectators, I can vouch for just how tense and enjoyable it was from start to finish!
Standing room only, I presume? O0
The spectators outnumbered the players (just)! It was the most people I'd seen connected to a game since we did that 6-player game sometime last year...
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Thank you for the great game Rich_The_Fish! It was very enjoyable and I felt the luck factor was well balanced. That was refreshing.
Here are the screenshots:
(https://www.dropbox.com/s/gy5vytd27mg2tl4/Rich%20the%20Fish%20P%26D%20scoreboard%20040416.jpg/?dl=1)
(https://www.dropbox.com/s/eqxbo5dk9j6ji6m/Rich%20the%20Fish%20P%26D%20map%20040416.jpg/?dl=1)
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The last game in the princesses group is finished.
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Chooselife and I were able to get our game in tonight and it was a nail biter the whole way. There was good dragon, princess and fairy play and a very good farm battle! I was lucky enough to draw one of the last of two dragon moves tiles at a very opportune time where I had the dragon trapped between two of Chooselife's farmers. He was forced to choose which farmer to lose, giving me control of the big farm. Fitting I guess considering I lost a farmer to the dragon earlier in the game.
There are 7 CFCF tiles in the game and I only needed one to really give myself a chance in the game. Chooselife drew 6 of them before I drew the last one. I was beginning to wonder.
I was able to trap 3 of Chooselife's followers with one dead spot in the first third of the game and he played excellently with that handicap. I wasn't able to capitalize on the advantage because I could not draw a tile to close a city through three quarters of the game so my followers were just as trapped. Scoring ended up being very muted.
Great epic game Chooselife! Thank you!
(https://www.dropbox.com/s/4ba5wiulgnq3ex1/Chooselife%20P%26D%20scoreboard%20040516.jpg/?dl=1)
(https://www.dropbox.com/s/f6kocn792i9g3xk/Chooselife%20P%26D%20map%20040416.jpg/?dl=1)
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Here comes the final x-score list - CarcC-B-Princesses 06 04 2016:
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the last game in the princess group is finished. That means the 2nd round starts.
I opened the topic:
Princess & Dragon League: Groups D1 - D9 (http://www.carcassonnecentral.com/community/index.php?topic=2595.0)
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Great epic game Chooselife! Thank you!
Likewise being on the lead most of the game I knew that sooner or later I would need those two trapped meeples and by the time you pulled CFCF tile I really didn't believe there were any left.