22:30 Latvia (a bit late for MrNumbers).
So we already have a minor time issue given the two-hour difference between Dan and MrNumbers. The game would have to be either at 20:00 BST / 21:00 CET / 22:00 Latvia (a bit early for Dan), or at 20:30 BST / 21:30 CET / 22:30 Latvia (a bit late for MrNumbers).
22:30 Latvia (a bit late for MrNumbers).
Not so late for me (in some cases even better).
Dan: In a three-player game, we can team up to defeat MrNumbers. >:D Imagine the dragon moves!
Dan: In a three-player game, we can team up to defeat MrNumbers. >:D Imagine the dragon moves!
I am kinda used to it :P Usually it happens that way on our public game nights: "Who is the strongest player now? MrNumbers? EAT HIM!!!" :D
Hopefully it doesn't feel too unfair and spoil the game when this happens? I guess that's just what happens when everyone wants to win.
Now I see your wink. Were you joking about BC&B?
In any case, I was surprised I wasn't much further behind on farm scoring, although I guess this includes farmers that were scored before the end of the game...
In the river and immediate post-river period, I was quite cautious and didn't play many meeples, while Dan and MrNumbers began a battle for the city with the river bridge (I opted to stay out).Opted to stay out? You were so determined to stay out that you had to lure yourself out of it with a Princess tile at one point!
This turned out to be the biggest farm and neither Dan nor MrNumbers joined their barns to it, choosing instead to place them in other farms much later in the game.For me it wasn't so much choice as that I couldn't really see anywhere to place my barn that could eventually be joined on without being easily blocked. It was a very "safe" farm you had. All credit for claiming it when you did!
The river-bridge city was eventually won outright by Dan through use of his abbey for a 30-point score, giving him the early lead.Although I used it early, I was satisfied that this was the best point of the game for me to have used this. It also led to MrNumbers having his Mayor trapped for most of the game and helped me towards the other large city I won.
I had my mayor in it (with four pennants) and my double meeple so I was in control, but Dan used the dragon to eat my mayor and reduce the control of the city to a 2-2 tie.This was the daftest thing I did (that I'm aware of) throughout the whole game. I wasn't really thinking ahead and ended up letting you both have an equal share of the points which was the worst thing I could have done! Still, I won my second large city soon after this was closed and I think the scores were fairly even at that point so I didn't lose too much ground.
Dan and MrNumbers began some fairly intensive farming in the west which ended with MrNumbers placing his barn on the second biggest farm. Dan got his barn into a nearby farm a little while later. In the end our barn farms supplied 11 cities (mine), 5 (MrNumbers) and 4 (Dan).I had hoped to merge our barn farms (and almost did) but you scuppered this with a t-junction!
Maybe I got too comfortable with my big farm and didn't work hard enough to score some secondary farms.You did have a reasonably good second farm but I out-farmed you on it with my mega-meeple.
Congratulations to MrNumbers and to everyone for a well-played and spirited game.Yes, very well done! I enjoyed the spirit of the game as much as anything else, and the banter especially.
Our apologies to quevy and rosco who joined the chatroom after the game had started, and the three of us were so engrossed in our game that we didn't see them until after it had finished!Indeed. Very sorry guys. :(
In the river and immediate post-river period, I was quite cautious and didn't play many meeples, while Dan and MrNumbers began a battle for the city with the river bridge (I opted to stay out).Opted to stay out? You were so determined to stay out that you had to lure yourself out of it with a Princess tile at one point!
Ha! Yes, that's true. I tried to start a separate (but nearby) city, but you guys joined it up, leaving me with one tiny meeple against your double meeples and mayors! So I got out of there as quick as I could!The river-bridge city was eventually won outright by Dan through use of his abbey for a 30-point score, giving him the early lead.Although I used it early, I was satisfied that this was the best point of the game for me to have used this. It also led to MrNumbers having his Mayor trapped for most of the game and helped me towards the other large city I won.
I also think that you don't like the way that the abbey works in JCZ so you like to play it ASAP just so you don't have to see it pop up every turn. I think this can be exploited in the future :)Dan and MrNumbers began some fairly intensive farming in the west which ended with MrNumbers placing his barn on the second biggest farm. Dan got his barn into a nearby farm a little while later. In the end our barn farms supplied 11 cities (mine), 5 (MrNumbers) and 4 (Dan).I had hoped to merge our barn farms (and almost did) but you scuppered this with a t-junction!
I don't remember that so it might have been an accident!Maybe I got too comfortable with my big farm and didn't work hard enough to score some secondary farms.You did have a reasonably good second farm but I out-farmed you on it with my mega-meeple.
Yep, I was trying to join that farm to my barn farm but came up one tile short. But at the same time I could have tried to add a second meeple to it as well.
Are we playing again this week?
to replace MrNumbers.:'( Hope, only for this one time
:'( Hope, only for this one time
I think a fun general rule could be to try to use the expansion that includes that week's Element of the Week, so we can put into practice some things we might have learned. So, that would be King and Robber Baron for this week.
I'm always keen for Traders & Builders, and I know you always want the Phantom, so we're building up something here.
I've never actually played any of the other ones you mentioned. I will hopefully get a copy of The Besiegers soon when it becomes available on Cundco, so if it's OK I'd rather wait until I see the real tiles before playing with it online.
Beyond that, maybe we should see if anyone else will join in before making a final decision - just to see how many players there are (and how many tiles we might want to use as a result) and what expansions the other players are interested in.
Expansions to be used tonight are the King and Robber Baron, Traders and Builders, the Phantom, and what else? The Tower? German Monasteries?
OK, let's leave out the Tower. (For now. I love the Tower so it will have to make an appearance at some point in the Thursday game!)
The German Monasteries are very simple. If you draw a German monastery, you can either place a monk as per usual or you can place an abbot (the meeple on its side). If you place an abbot, it stays there until the end of the game (unless there are dragons/towers/plagues). At the end of the game, you score one point for each tile that spreads out from the monastery in the four orthogonal directions. If there is a gap in the sequence of tiles, you don't score any points beyond the gap.
I have never played the Flier but it seems simple as well so let's include it. What about one more small one - the Cathars? And what about a River?
Sign me up.
What other expansions do people want to play with and/or think go well with the Tower? As I said in another thread, I think the German monasteries match up well with the Tower, but we did use the monasteries last week so maybe we shouldn't do it two weeks in a row.
Maybe we should, at last, add BC&B? ;)
BC&B would be good except for the bazaars. Is there a JCloisterZone option to house-rule these (I can't easily check as I'm at work at the moment)?
and The Phantom?
and The Phantom?
You should just make this your signature at this point. :green-meeple:
Here are some screenshots and a quick summary of how I felt the game went:
To be perfectly honest, I did enjoy this game but I really felt that the towers spoiled it. Whether or not this is actually the case remains to be seen, but it seemed to me like the majority of the captured meeples belonged to me and I struggled to keep anything on the board in the first half of the game. Even when I tried to defend certain meeples by putting other meeples on top of towers ("capping" them?) the capper meeples would just get captured and then on the next move I'd lose the meeple I was trying to defend. I never actually ran out of meeples somehow, but at one point the other 3 players were sharing 6 of my meeples between them.
I did eventually complete the city in question but this was only because of a lucky tile draw rather than any amount of skill, tactics or planning...
The bridges really added an extra element to it although the castles were largely ignored, as was the builder for some reason.
Here are some screenshots and a quick summary of how I felt the game went:
Quick!
To be perfectly honest, I did enjoy this game but I really felt that the towers spoiled it. Whether or not this is actually the case remains to be seen, but it seemed to me like the majority of the captured meeples belonged to me and I struggled to keep anything on the board in the first half of the game. Even when I tried to defend certain meeples by putting other meeples on top of towers ("capping" them?) the capper meeples would just get captured and then on the next move I'd lose the meeple I was trying to defend. I never actually ran out of meeples somehow, but at one point the other 3 players were sharing 6 of my meeples between them.
If you don't like the tower, so be it. It's certainly true that the majority of followers captured were indeed yours! >:D But playing with the tower is a skill. You need to consider where towers are, and where towers could appear, with every tile placement (and especially every meeple placement). If there is a tower anywhere in the row (within say 4-5 tiles) of where you want to place a meeple, you probably shouldn't place it there unless it's a feature you think you can close quickly. And if you do place what you think is an important meeple (i.e for a big farm or city) on the board, then you should try to make it tower-proof in your subsequent turns by placing non-tower pieces around it where possible.
I did eventually complete the city in question but this was only because of a lucky tile draw rather than any amount of skill, tactics or planning...
But luck is part of any Carcassonne game, not just games with the Tower. This is the part of your dislike for the Tower that I don't really understand. If you play with I&C and you set up a city with a gap with four city sides so that you can complete it with a cathedral, then it's luck as to whether or not you draw one of the cathedrals or one of your opponents does. Anytime you try to join a city it's luck as to whether your opponent draws a two-city tile to block you out of it before you draw a 2+ sided city tile to jump into it. If you try to join someone's farm late in the game, it's luck as to whether your opponent draws a tile that can block you out of it or whether you draw the tile you need to join it, etc etc. At its core, the game combines skill and luck, and I think this is still true with the Tower.
I would say that using tower tiles to good effect by placing them near opponents' meeples, and using your tower pieces wisely (which I didn't do last night given that I ran out at a crucial moment) is skill, tactics and planning.
This was an absolutely epic move that deserved better! The Phantom must have risen another notch in Dan's Carcassonne Pantheon after that!
The bridges really added an extra element to it although the castles were largely ignored, as was the builder for some reason.
This was my first ever game with BC&B (I only bought the real-life expansion last week) and I quite enjoyed it. I think the bazaar variant on JCZ worked quite well, and the bridges did have a big impact.
Thinking about it now, perhaps Traders and Builders doesn't go that well with the Tower - or at least the builder part. The builder is about extending cities/roads and usually keeping them unfinished for longer as a result, whereas the Tower is about finishing features quickly before your meeple gets kidnapped, so they are not really compatible in this way. The trade goods become important with destructive expansions though, because fewer cities seem to be completed and the scores are lower, so the value of the goods rises.
When we play, we use a rule which I thought was THE rule, but according to jcloisterzone I am wrong.
We play that the first tower block can only capture meeples on the same tile as itself. Then 2 blocks includes 1 tile in each direction horizontally or vertically and 3 blocks is 2 tills etc.
The same happened in Latvia and, I suppose, in all EU countries. So why don't we stick to the previous time? I think everyone will agree.
I will join this week.
You thought I forgot the Phantom for a second, didn't you Dan? O0
I like the choices of expansions for this week, but wonder if we can use corn circle 2 instead of corn circle 1? And I wouldn't mind adding the festival as well ;D
I vote for leaving out the Phantom for once.
I vote for leaving out jungleboy for once! >:D
B1nder | danisthirty | jungleboy | MrNumbers | Rosco | |
9th October 2014 : | - | 250 | 257 | 279 | - |
16th October 2014 : | 125 | 236 | 130 | - | - |
23rd October 2014 : | 69 | 108 | 90 | - | 129 |
30th October 2014 : | 194 | 220 | 94 | - | - |
TOTAL : | 388 | 814 | 571 | 279 | 129 |
Unfortunately, I am out for tonight's game too.
I hope I can make it. I will come to the chat if i can
It was a great game and it did seem that everyone was against me!
It was a great game and it did seem that everyone was against me!
Welcome to my world of two weeks ago!
Nothing personal you understand... O:-)
It was a great game and it did seem that everyone was against me!
It was a great game and it did seem that everyone was against me!
Welcome to my world of two weeks ago!
Nothing personal you understand... O:-)
Welcome to my world four weeks ago! :P
It was a great game and it did seem that everyone was against me!
Nothing at all personal, it was simply because you were in the dominant position for the entire game. If anything you played too well so that we had no choice but to try to align against you.
Guys, I can't play tonight because I have a lot of other things to do. But I'll be back next week for sure. Have a good game!
I am at home and it looks like I can participate in tonight's game :)
No aggressive expansions? :o
We can add at least Flier ;)
I will join the game tonight. The game setup that you suggest sounds good. And I would not mind adding flyers as well :)
Phantom??
Unfortunately I can not play with you one more time :(
My favourite tile of the game was flying my large follower into a city belonging to MrNumbers and snatching 20 points away from him when it was completed!
My favourite tile of the game was flying my large follower into a city belonging to MrNumbers and snatching 20 points away from him when it was completed!
This is the only reason you have won! :P
...I am playing Carcassonne with a 'real' person...
Excellent! :(y) You and B1nder will have to fight over who gets to be Yellow though, and he looks tough... :meeple: C:-)
So, are we on for tonight? Wagons are the element of the week, so that means Abbey and Mayor should be included (as long as MrNumbers doesn't do any of his wagon tricks!).
What about a classic game with A&M, I&C and T&B? Then we can fight for mega-cathedral cities using our builders and our big followers and our mayors, and when we (inevitably) get trapped, we can get out of it with our abbeys!
So I have two options: install JCloisterZone on my work PC and play from this computer, or, don't play. I think I'm going to have to go with the latter since the kids won't put themselves to bed and I can't do it remotely from work.
What time was it again? In case The Miracle visits me and I get time to play. It looks grim, but gotta have hope! :gray-meeple: (tired Yellow meeple)
So I have two options: install JCloisterZone on my work PC and play from this computer, or, don't play. I think I'm going to have to go with the latter since the kids won't put themselves to bed and I can't do it remotely from work.
If you have a 3G phone connection, couldn't you use this to supply an internet connection to your PC?
Hi guys, I can't make it tonight because I have a real-life game with two opponents. I am going to try to convince them to play the combination I suggested in another thread a few days ago: Count, Traders and Builders, King and Robber Baron, and Crop Circles (II).
Have fun in the online game!
Somehow I don't think they want all their meeples trapped five minutes into the game...
That chatroom doesn't work for me.
I can't post there.
I'm going to have to skip the game again this week, because I'll be on a plane tomorrow night. Have a good game everyone!
Going anywhere exciting?
Are we going to have a match on Christmas day? I think I may have to give that one a miss if so... ;)
Are we going to have a match on Christmas day? I think I may have to give that one a miss if so... ;)
I think we can safely skip the weekly game on Christmas Day, and maybe New Year's Day as well. I will be away for Christmas anyway, but back before New Year's, so I could potentially play on Jan 1 - we'll see.
Sorry to hear that you went to a funeral, I hope the departed was well celebrated and lived a full and happy life.
I'm not definite, but will try and make it tomorrow. I may be a little late though so will join the second game if there's one :)
5pm EST is 11pm MEZ (10pm GMT). I could be here for a game at that time, but probably would not be online before. Who will host?Can we use Farin's new version?
http://sydby.com/carcassonne/irc/index.htmlThanks!
You meen the cloister with 4 roads? If so, I put it there, to make your farm small, but not considering the barn. You got even on wheat with your last tile, though. ;)
Very close game! Congratulations, Hounk! Wish I were with you, guys! But this is a little bit too late for me (at least, in workdays).
Judging by the number of people who seem to be free to play their league matches at the weekend, I wonder if it would be worth having another regular weekly game, perhaps on a Sunday evening at around 9pm CET?
Judging by the number of people who seem to be free to play their league matches at the weekend, I wonder if it would be worth having another regular weekly game, perhaps on a Sunday evening at around 9pm CET?
I think this is a good idea. Actually I prefer it to the Thursday slot in general, because I like to try to be more productive on weeknights but I don't have the same hope for a Sunday night.
Contradicting to what I stated earlier, I am probably able to take part this evening at 9 CET.
On second thought, luck might have been on my side as well, that I did not get any CRRF, because jungleboy leaded the big farm, the way the game turned out anyway. Of course, I would have the time and the meeple to achieve a tie, if I would have succeeded to connect my big follower (and jungleboys small one) to the main farm, but odds would have been, that he somehow would have blocked it or I would not get the tile for connection. The way, it turned out, I still got a quite valuable farm with 5 cities from my big guy, otherwise, if I would have failed, the big farm would have been even 12 points bigger to his advantage.
Well. Here are my suggestions:
I&C, T&B, A&M, Phantom
From the minis we could add some of these:
King and Robber, GQ#11, Cult, German Monasteries, River(s)
I think German monasteries are too powerful with no way of removing meeples, e.g. P+d
I think we have enough tiles, so of the minis you mentioned I don't think we need to add GQ#11. But I am happy to keep all the rest, and let's make it River II for the pig herd tile.Well, I don't think we really need it, either. But the road next to the source of the river could make a neat variety, especially when combined with the pig heard from River II. Plus we would get a second pig heard (I would use the alternative rules checking "The pig") from it.The other tiles are nothing fancy, but only 10 more tiles which won't make much difference.
Oh, man! I mixed up CET and GMT. Shame on me! :'(Yes Safari - the others started the game without you.
I found out about it just some minutes ago. My bad! Sorry if you had to wait for me. :(Oh, man! I mixed up CET and GMT. Shame on me! :'(Yes Safari - the others started the game without you.
I found out about it just some minutes ago. My bad! Sorry if you had to wait for me. :(
I found out about it just some minutes ago. My bad! Sorry if you had to wait for me. :(
No worries. The worst part is that I am now blue and I feel like danisthirty! :blue-meeple:
That looks like an epic game! Congratulations on your win MrNumbers! :red-meeple:
MrNumbers mastered the BC&B features by using bridges to connect to the barn farm
When you're playing a 4-player game via computer I find it's not as easy to follow what everyone else is doing
This was a pretty epic game that took about two hours!
Dan and jungleboy wanted to go to bed right after the game...
I thought I had immunised my main farmer from the towers with 4+ non-tile towers in all directions but Hounk built up one tower towards the end of the game (and I didn't really realise he was doing this) and captured him, but it turns out that he could have taken the other farmer with the same tile anyway.
It wouldn't have been fair of me to have suggested anything directly, but I was surprised that JB was so keen to keep kidnapping my meeples as a little more collaboration would have ensured that he won the main farm outright...
Side note: I've got a small feeling that Jere didn't know the exact rules of Besiegers expansion: he closed his own city with besieged tile (losing 12 points) and claimed abandoned besieged city late in the game (worth 0 points in the end of the game).
Well done for going easy on him since it was his first weekly game. Oh, no wait... ::)
Side note: I've got a small feeling that Jere didn't know the exact rules of Besiegers expansion: he closed his own city with besieged tile (losing 12 points)I was wondering about that, too. I would have, if I would have been him, tried to free his phantom on the left and connect another farmer on top of the road. But he got an important cloth because of that, and probably feared, that you would close his city, gaining control of this trade good. So that was probably the purpose, he did this.
Jere, as always, was collecting as many resources as he could, but this led to the situation that he got only 28 points for the cities. In the end he risked to place his barn near mine, hoping to join them (he needed rfrf or fffx tile), but no luck this time.
Side note: I've got a small feeling that Jere didn't know the exact rules of Besiegers expansion: he closed his own city with besieged tile (losing 12 points) and claimed abandoned besieged city late in the game (worth 0 points in the end of the game).
For me you are, if not dangerous, then at least uncomfortable player: my only losses in group stages (both in World Cup and T&B League) were to you ;)
We have played 4 times against each other so far (I think) and it's 2-2. So saying "almost guaranteed loss" is exaggerated :)
I'm in. I propose I&C, T&B and phantom
Excellent. The more the merrier! Anyone else?
Unless there are any objections I'd quite like to include either The Fliers or Mage & Witch or preferably both.
There's still time if anyone else wants to join us...
I won't write a full account of the game as there always seemed to be so much going on, much of which I wasn't even following that closely as I was busy elsewhere.
[Six paragraphs later]
I won't write a full account of the game as there always seemed to be so much going on, much of which I wasn't even following that closely as I was busy elsewhere.
[Six paragraphs later]
Man, if that wasn't your full account, your full account would be the length of a Homeric epic! :green-meeple:
I really enjoyed the aspect of a 6 player game, although it meant, that Rosco did "deprived" me of my share in the farm with the cloister in the upright sector of the board. I was on a weak spot there anyway, since I knew, that it would be gone for me if either Dan or Jéré or jungleboy would pick the last cloister without road, which made a 50% chance in a 6 player game, so it was to be to expected anyway.
My biggest mistake in the game was probably the underuse of the builder. I think, I got just one extra tile from finishing the small road in the middle, leading from the bazaar to the small city with grain. I definitely should have placed my builder earlier in the big city.
What I personally did not like that much in this game, was the inclusion of B,C&B to such a big game. I'm not really used to this expansion, just played it twice on JCZ, both times in big weekly games, did not had a single option placing a castle yet, and think, I could have put better use to bridges, too, if I would have been more focused on them.
Well, after the success of last week’s game it would seem like a shame not to suggest doing the same thing again this Thursday. I’m hoping that there will be the same level of interest again this week although if we end up with more than 6 players we could split up into 2 games so that everyone is included.
I don’t mind what expansions we use but it would be kind of interesting to play Princess & Dragon and The Tower together as I don’t think I’ve ever done this. I don’t have my heart set on this by any means though, and will be happy to go along with whatever’s most popular (so Bridges, Castles & Bazaars almost certainly won’t be involved!)
Who else is available on Thursday and keen to play?
Well, after the success of last week’s game it would seem like a shame not to suggest doing the same thing again this Thursday. I’m hoping that there will be the same level of interest again this week although if we end up with more than 6 players we could split up into 2 games so that everyone is included.
I don’t mind what expansions we use but it would be kind of interesting to play Princess & Dragon and The Tower together as I don’t think I’ve ever done this. I don’t have my heart set on this by any means though, and will be happy to go along with whatever’s most popular (so Bridges, Castles & Bazaars almost certainly won’t be involved!)
Who else is available on Thursday and keen to play?
Could we play just a bit earlier? 21:30? 20:30 your time?
"grabushka":(y) :))
"grabushka":(y) :))
On the other hand I would totally understand if you can't. My son goes to bed at 9 and "grabushka" would not be super happy if I make myself unavailable before that time. I have the feeling you have to deal with similar issues... ;)
"grabushka":(y) :))
Her Carcassonne nickname ;)
You should encourage her to become a member here. Or at least to join in with our next online competition! >:D
I'd love to attend, unfortunately my wife works up to 21, before 21:45 for sure I will not be free, she usually always works around that hour on Thursday, one of the reasons why I have never participated in one of the games, maybe some you could arrange a game later for those who have problems with the times?
I could be available for a game but only after 10:30 pm CET. Is there any chance to start the game then?I'd love to attend, unfortunately my wife works up to 21, before 21:45 for sure I will not be free, she usually always works around that hour on Thursday, one of the reasons why I have never participated in one of the games, maybe some you could arrange a game later for those who have problems with the times?
OK then. In order that quevy can be included we'll move the time back to 9pm UK/ 10pm most of Europe as it was originally.
So all being well that's Jere, quevy and myself in! Who else is going to be available?
I think it will be best to avoid Bridges, Castles & Bazaars this time, but how about including Inns & Cathedrals, Abbey & Mayor and Besiegers (just a suggestion - feel free to add/ remove)?
I could be available for a game but only after 10:30 pm CET. Is there any chance to start the game then?I'd love to attend, unfortunately my wife works up to 21, before 21:45 for sure I will not be free, she usually always works around that hour on Thursday, one of the reasons why I have never participated in one of the games, maybe some you could arrange a game later for those who have problems with the times?
OK then. In order that quevy can be included we'll move the time back to 9pm UK/ 10pm most of Europe as it was originally.
So all being well that's Jere, quevy and myself in! Who else is going to be available?
I think it will be best to avoid Bridges, Castles & Bazaars this time, but how about including Inns & Cathedrals, Abbey & Mayor and Besiegers (just a suggestion - feel free to add/ remove)?
Is it? I thought CET is GMT+1.
Is it? I thought CET is GMT+1.
Apparently you are correct. I thought I was living in GMT, but I guess this didn't move forward by an hour when everyone else did last Sunday.
It is currently 5:22pm where I am. I propose this game should start at 9pm my time, whatever that may be i.e. in 3 hours and 38 minutes.
Is it? I thought CET is GMT+1.
Apparently you are correct. I thought I was living in GMT, but I guess this didn't move forward by an hour when everyone else did last Sunday.
It is currently 5:22pm where I am. I propose this game should start at 9pm my time, whatever that may be i.e. in 3 hours and 38 minutes.
And here is 18:26. So I could be able to play if the game would start in 4 hours and 4 minutes. :)
It depends on how you handle the daylight saving time. I live in CET timezone and consider my time as CET. But if we don't include DST in the zone time then it's 9:30 CET + 1 hour (DST) which is suitable for me. I hope it's clear now.Is it? I thought CET is GMT+1.
Apparently you are correct. I thought I was living in GMT, but I guess this didn't move forward by an hour when everyone else did last Sunday.
It is currently 5:22pm where I am. I propose this game should start at 9pm my time, whatever that may be i.e. in 3 hours and 38 minutes.
And here is 18:26. So I could be able to play if the game would start in 4 hours and 4 minutes. :)
18:26 plus 4h 4m would be 22:30 in your local time, which is CET + 1 based on your location? So this would be 21:30 CET rather than 22:30 CET surely?
What ever happened to the second game of the evening?
It's a pity you didn't complete the 66-points worth cathedral city though.
And why Jere wanted to connect a farmer to a 0-points worth farm? :o
On the other hand, I draw a lot of (probably even all) CFRR, JB would have needed to free his one point knight next to the river.
Great. Let's see, if JB joins, too. He is online right now. And what about you, kettlefish?Sorry not this time - perhaps the next week I will play. But I like to look at the game if possible.
Any results/screen capture to share with us? :)
I intentionally placed that Dan's mentioned cccf tile to jungleboy's city in order not to allow Dan to connect to that city: this was the last cccx tile, rather than some ccxx tiles still left in the bag. If Dan would get succeeded in connecting his second knight, he would won the game. And even worse: if they both would finish that city, I could come only 3rd, so this was "two birds with one stone".
I also was surprised, how easily farmers were connecting to the farm, although I reduced Hounk's chances to connect his (later 0) farmer, because only one rrrf tile left at that moment. One of my lucky tiles were cloister, one of the last tiles: with a help of it I took away 9 points from Dan for the farm and gave 7 points to myself for the cloister itself.
Overall, my feelings towards the game can be summarised as below:
Dan’s 2015 Christmas Card ListMrNumbers
(everyone else)
The first game crashed and was not to be restored. Then we had the 4P BG mentioned and later Leven and me had a 2P P&D for practice, which was a very nice game. We regret afterwards, that Leven did not record it as a video and at least I did not think about making at least a screenshot.But I did. :)
Are there any plans for tonight?I will play base game with Abbey&Mayor.
Today is the last day for test games before the new league starts.Is there someone who likes to play today? and is there someone who can host a game?
Base game with Abbey&Mayor.
I think now, it can be considered "legal", in the summary post (http://www.carcassonnecentral.com/community/index.php?topic=1041.msg21493#msg21493) there was also included a 4 player base game. Nevertheless for your achievement to get black, it might be insignificant, because you have to cover the first 5 major expansions for that, and it is likely, that with just 4 further games, you will miss at least one and need another victory. Not a big deal for somebody, who already won a tournament and regularly participates in the weekly games, though.
Rich, it would be nice to see along with the final score, the box score distribution.Here we go...
I think, this Thursday will be good with me.
I'm in! It's been ages since we organised one of these.
When is it. I am on Holiday on Friday so may be able to play.
Ladies and gentlemen,
Would anybody care to join me this Thursday for a weekly game?
We might not be able to include the Gingerbread Man but I'm all up for a few expansions too!
:blue-meeple:
If there's still a spot left I'd like to join! :gray-meeple:
Traders and Builders
Date | Link | No of Players | Winner | I & C | T & B | P & D | The Tower | A & M | B, C & B |
9th Oct | Click Here (http://www.carcassonnecentral.com/community/index.php?topic=1041.msg13315#msg13315) | 3 | MrNumbers | x | x | x | |||
16th Oct | Click Here (http://www.carcassonnecentral.com/community/index.php?topic=1041.msg13788#msg13788) | 3 | danisthirty | x | |||||
23rd Oct | Click Here (http://www.carcassonnecentral.com/community/index.php?topic=1041.msg14331#msg14331) | 4 | Rosco | x | x | x | |||
30th Oct | Click Here (http://www.carcassonnecentral.com/community/index.php?topic=1041.msg14903#msg14903) | 3 | danisthirty | x | x | ||||
6th Nov | Click Here (http://www.carcassonnecentral.com/community/index.php?topic=1041.msg15330#msg15330) | 4 | jungleboy | x | x | ||||
13th Nov | Click Here (http://www.carcassonnecentral.com/community/index.php?topic=1041.msg15690#msg15690) | 4 | danisthirty | x | x | ||||
27th Nov | Click Here (http://www.carcassonnecentral.com/community/index.php?topic=1041.msg16256#msg16256) | 3 | danisthirty | x | x | x |
You mean tonight? I ask, because last game was on Thursday, not Wednesday, but I would be available tonight as well.My bad, thought it was Wed sorry. I'm happy to play tonight / tomorrow, whenever most folk are available.
So will there be any game tonight? Usual time 9pm CET?Hi Hounk. Sorry for the delay in responding - had some difficulties with Windows updates which have taken ages to sort out! I should be able to make time for a game tonight. See you (and whoever else) in the chatroom in about 15 mins. Rich.
Paul and I are in chat now. We would like to playHere's a screenshot from the game with Paul and Hounk on Wed night. We all placed a lot of meeples as farmers, with Paul ending up claiming all the farming points as the farms were joined up right at the end of the game. There was a bit of a battle to gain a share of the large city in the south west corner, but it didn't work out and was left incomplete.
I will play if it's not a big big game
And it appears that, if not for the Tower ransoms, Rich would win the game. So Tower play was critical all way around. Nice game!
Very exhausting to be honest, but it was worthwhile and very kind of danisthirty and Rosco to play with all those expansions.
With two trapped monks held hostage by the same missing tile (a wonderful collaborative effort between Hounk and I)The colleraborative effort was nice, sure. However, it would have been even nicer, if you would just have gotten a CFFF, instead of the CFCF splitter, which you put into use as well to gloom into my near finished city.
It wouldn't have taken much to have swung things though as there was always the risk that Khalid could have completed his huge city for lots of points and trade goods, and Hounk still had the chance to win his farm back with a cfff tile.There actually was a fitting tile from Festival to finish Khalidq's city, but luckily I got it, instead of him. As for the farm. You managed to place a second farmer as well, which would have connect, so this would have made not much difference, just increase the gap between Khalidq and me. But no chance for me, outwinning you.
I'm in. Can we set a limit on the number of farmers Hounk is allowed to play? Let's make it 1 :)
What time is the game tomorrow?
Unfortunately, I can not take part tomorrow, no matter what time. :( I have to take the job from a colleague tomorrow in the evening.
I'm not sure I can comment, I had no idea what was going on most of the game.
So are there people interested tonight? I'll wait in chat.Hi Hounk. Just to let you know, I'll not be available tonight as I'm really shattered - so much so that I'm already in bed! Hope you manage to get a game tonight.
Anybody tomorrow for a "Weekly Game"?
I totally admit, it was quite cut-throating. Everything could happen, and we weren't sparing each others feelings... :P
It's a late call, but is anyone up for a weekly game tonight? Say 21:30 CET (8:30 BST)?
Looks like a good game, I wish I'd played now. Shame about the mistakes with the Towers but I think most of us have been there and done the same thing at least once or twice (I certainly have anyway)!
Who was Chuck? Was he Carcking?
Looks like a good game, I wish I'd played now. Shame about the mistakes with the Towers but I think most of us have been there and done the same thing at least once or twice (I certainly have anyway)!
Who was Chuck? Was he Carcking?
Well, it was my second online-game and in real-life, I don't play with the towers very often. So I have no problem to admit, that it was me! ;-)Just joshing with you. Please don't take offense. We are both Princesses. How will it feel when you crush me into the Carcassonne map? haha
Well, it was my second online-game and in real-life, I don't play with the towers very often. So I have no problem to admit, that it was me! ;-)Just joshing with you. Please don't take offense. We are both Princesses. How will it feel when you crush me into the Carcassonne map? haha
Welcome to the forums miicha! :) :(y)
Congratulations on your game, I hope it was enjoyed by both of you...
So I took the worst beating in online Carcassonne playing against Leven (with his favorite expansion I&C, he smartly mentioned after the game :P )
Thanks for the game guys. That was a blast. I liked that even though we were playing quite aggressively it was still a fun and friendly game! :) :(y)
PS - I must apologise to Miicha for drawing all the cccf tiles when all he needed was one of them! >:D
How about settling a game in advanced next Wednesday, so day after tomorrow, around 9 pm CET, would anybody be interested?
How about settling a game in advanced next Wednesday, so day after tomorrow, around 9 pm CET, would anybody be interested?
Interesting that I may have been an ideagiver to the more expierienced players! :-) Seems like a fun game, that you had.Experienced? Me? Hardly but I appreciate the compliment haha!
p.s. does this count as a 'weekly game' or is there an 'official' weekly game that I need to locate to get on the 'Order of the Meeple' radar?
Are you guys available at Fridays?? I would love to join your games and my I'm usually free at Fridays.
Hi Tross14, welcome to the forums! I will probably be around on Friday evening and will try to make myself available in the chat room (http://sydby.com/carcassonne/irc/index.html) from about 8pm (UK time) onward. Where are you from? You might also be interested in the Welcome Tournament (http://www.carcassonnecentral.com/community/index.php?topic=2737) (a tournament for Carcassonne players who are new to these forums) as I believe a couple of people may have dropped out recently.
my rampant Portuguese social life might interfere between now and then...
It's looking like I'll be able to make it. See you guys shortly.
I don't see any known/famous/notorious names in the chatroom...? :(
Cam you wait for me? Or am I too late
20:00 (UK time) tomorrow for the next weekly game. Who else is in?
20:00 (UK time) tomorrow for the next weekly game. Who else is in?
I might still be recovering my lost Kickstarter games from the Portuguese black market. Or should that operation be successful, I might be playing them...
I'd like to join. How do I do it?
I think this is not a bug: probably that tile completed also upper cloister with road, and Dan received 9 points exactly for that cloister, not Steve's. According to the rules, there is no need to own a completed feature to receive points for the castle.
I think this is not a bug: probably that tile completed also upper cloister with road, and Dan received 9 points exactly for that cloister, not Steve's. According to the rules, there is no need to own a completed feature to receive points for the castle.
Ah! That could be a very good explanation. I'd need the other players to confirm that the tile ALSO completed the monastery with road... Because what we see here is the end game situation, so not 100% accurate. But I think you got it.
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Is there some game planned for tonight?
It is all fun and games but beers are on you both!
No weekly game Today?
People are starting to gather in the old IRC chatroom and in Slack. But it looks like Dan and NY might play their WC game instead.
Keen to get this going again. C:-)
Who is interested and what days work best for most people if we were to make it a weekly event once again?
I've just got home.
Could do with a game to unwind if anyone is available?
Anyone up for a game this evening (JCZ)? All player counts and expansions considered! O:-)
I hadn't really thought about it. I'm usually available from 8pm UK time. Is that any good for you?