Author Topic: We organize a game now? (Read 70991 times)

kettlefish · « **Reply #75 on:** April 27, 2015, 02:00:11 PM »

Today I had a friendly game with danisthirty and Chooselife.

Base game

the strategy was:
friendly - build together a big city - each player with only one follower in the feature.
No hard fights no hard block the other players.

At the end of the game I had 2 meeples left in my supply - I don't know why - but I didn't place always a meeple.

kettlefish · « **Reply #76 on:** April 27, 2015, 02:31:20 PM »

here are some comments from our chatroom:
before the game:

Quote from: 'kettle'

I like to play a chaotic base game - like: we all claim a city together and build it - only with one meeple each

after the game:
danisthirty: that was a very different game. it's weird when you play in a friendly way!
kettle: really nice game - all without big fights
danisthirty: but I think people will be shocked when they see that you still have 2 meeples left...
kettle: nice big farm and big city - but I can't get into your road
danisthirty: the road was only worth 7 points
Chooselife: I'm not a sour looser but its strange no playing to score
danisthirty: but we each had one end of it so impossible to get someone else on.
danisthirty: yes, it was definitely strange. but enjoyable. like when I used to run. sometimes I would run as fast as possible but pace myself carefully so that I could still finish the race. other times I just jogged along and stuck at the back. I always enjoyed it whatever I did.
Chooselife: indeed

Paul · « **Reply #77 on:** April 29, 2015, 01:01:41 PM »

Dan and I killing some time, we tested base game with the Goldmines mini expansion. In itself this expansion works rather well.

With my last attempt of 50/50 to conquer the big farm which failed, Dan won the game. It was a gamble on my part and maybe I had won if I had taken the time the last four turns to see easier targets to score.

Paul

danisthirty · « **Reply #78 on:** April 30, 2015, 07:16:22 AM »

I’d just like to reiterate how close this game was. Paul and I were fairly even in terms of score until he completed a cloister and a road with the same tile and quickly built up a 20-point lead which I struggled to claw back no matter what I did.

My only saving grace was a huge city that we fought over quite fiercely but which I eventually won with 3 knights against 2 of Pauls (plus 2 which he never managed to join on). This ended up being worth 21 points for me and since we were tied on almost everything else (1 farmer each on a 15-point farm, 1 each on a 6-point farm and 1 each that we both failed to join on to the 15-point farm) these points made up for most of my deficit.

The gold really made a difference as we seemed to claim this fairly evenly and for much of the game had 5 pieces each. I ended up closing a road and claimed an additional 3 pieces in the process which gave me a 14 point lead since my 8 were worth 3 points each (24) and Pauls 5 were worth 2 points each (10). So, a fairly hefty bonus for me simply for being lucky enough to draw a tile that could be used to close a road off!

Thanks for the game anyway. I really enjoyed it.

kettlefish · « **Reply #79 on:** May 12, 2015, 01:06:23 PM »

I like to play a test game with base game and Abbey&Mayor. If possible today evening or tomorrow.

Does someone have interest to play an online game with JCloisterZone version 3.1.1. or 3.2.?

kettlefish · « **Reply #80 on:** May 13, 2015, 12:58:37 PM »

I liked to play a game with PresetM - online at JCloisterZone version3.2 - it didn't work.

kettlefish · « **Reply #81 on:** May 16, 2015, 02:37:06 PM »

I had a second test game with danisthirty today.

We played base game and Abbey&Mayor.

Hounk · « **Reply #82 on:** May 16, 2015, 03:13:17 PM »

Looks, like you did pretty good, as well on farms. Also connected at least two farmers for 9 points, which is really well in a game, where one barn covers 4 cities, the other one 5. Hope you start getting the taste for this expansion, you'll see, after getting some practice, it can be pretty fun.

kettlefish · « **Reply #83 on:** May 16, 2015, 03:44:05 PM »

Yes - danisthirty played very friendly with me, and the tiles were good for me too.
Danisthirty's almost last tile was that one on the right corner in the botton of the map. With this tile he put my two farms together and I got some less points...
All the time we were not able to place the Abbey tiles.

danisthirty · « **Reply #84 on:** May 17, 2015, 01:22:14 AM »

I think this was the first time I've played Abbey & Mayor without using either my Abbey (there was never an opportunity to place it) or my Mayor! I certainly enjoyed the game though, and it was very close throughout.

I placed my barn at the first available opportunity and then spent the rest of the game trying to increase its value. Other than a city of mine which kettlefish glommed onto, there was no aggression at all and we mostly just left each other to our own thing. This said, as kettlefish pointed out I did merge two of her farms with one of my last tiles as she was scoring two of the cities twice as separate farms. This got me 4 or 5 points for the road and robber her of 6 points for the farms which made all the difference in the final scoring!

Great game. I'm all geared up for the league now!

danisthirty · « **Reply #85 on:** May 22, 2015, 04:55:05 AM »

If anyone is free for a base game or some Abbey & Mayor practice I will be on the chat room for the next few hours...

danisthirty · « **Reply #86 on:** May 22, 2015, 07:25:37 AM »

Great game with jma03/ jacobo, jungleboy/ jungleboy and kettlefish/ kettle:

The best thing about it was this road which I inexplicably fell in love with even though it wasn't mine. I did manage to get my barn in the middle of it though. Nice.

Thanks for the game guys. I really enjoyed it!

Jéré · « **Reply #87 on:** May 22, 2015, 07:31:35 AM »

Nobody's working this afternoon or what? I do...

Great spot you've found for your barn, Dan. Congrats for this achievement.

jungleboy · « **Reply #88 on:** May 22, 2015, 07:38:26 AM »

Quote from: Jéré on May 22, 2015, 07:31:35 AM

Nobody's working this afternoon or what? I do...

Since I can dictate my own availability for my teaching and examining work, I always say I am unavailable on Friday afternoon just because I don't want to work then

Quote from: Jéré on May 22, 2015, 07:31:35 AM

Great spot you've found for your barn, Dan. Congrats for this achievement.

I think he was so desperate to place his barn that he just put it there even though he already knew at the time he placed it that there couldn't be any more than two cities in the farm. I think he also wanted to become part of the legend of my road any way he could.

danisthirty · « **Reply #89 on:** May 22, 2015, 07:38:48 AM »

Quote from: Jéré on May 22, 2015, 07:31:35 AM

Nobody's working this afternoon or what? I do...

Hey, it's OK if you're too scared to play Carcassonne with all the cool kids and have to pretend to be at work instead. No problem.

Quote from: Jéré on May 22, 2015, 07:31:35 AM

Great spot you've found for your barn, Dan. Congrats for this achievement.

I know. Awesome right?

) To be honest, the way it was going I didn't think I was going to get to place my barn anywhere so I put it down there just because I could, even though it also gave jacobo 6 points as he already had a farmer in there.

Here's a screenshot of just my barn: