danisthirty (166) vs. Rosco (185)I felt that I got off to a pretty good start after trapping two of Rosco’s meeples on an uncompletable road (with Inn) and an uncompletable city (with cathedral). The fact that I still managed to lose after this is quite an achievement in itself! But lose I did, and I’ve agonised over pretty much every tile I placed in this game since then.
My conclusion was that I lost because I didn’t make the effort to consolidate the main farm (eventually worth 39 points) even though I was the first to claim it and had a couple of opportunities to do so. I think I still had time to respond when Rosco got his second farmer onto it (which I should have blocked but for some reason didn’t see the severity of the threat this posed before he joined it on) but couldn’t seem to draw any of the required tiles and ended up 19 points behind.
All credit to Rosco. Despite my blocking his two meeples he still finished the game with two meeples and his mega-meeple in hand. Definitely a case of being out-classed rather than out-lucked on this occasion...
(you don’t need to be a mathematician to spot that the scores in the final scores screenshot don’t add up. This is because the game crashed with around 24 tiles to go. I saved the game before we closed everything down, then I loaded it again and Rosco connected back to me. After this we were able to continue from where we left off as though there had been no interruption at all. The scores breakdown only shows the scores won after we loaded the saved game)
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Looks like my non-winning streak from the first competition will hold steady. Somehow, someplace, there must be a reward for consistency....