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B1nder · « **Reply #75 on:** October 27, 2014, 12:04:31 PM »

I will join this week.

danisthirty · « **Reply #76 on:** October 27, 2014, 02:51:36 PM »

Quote from: B1nder on October 27, 2014, 12:04:31 PM

I will join this week.

Excellent!

jungleboy · « **Reply #77 on:** October 28, 2014, 11:32:42 PM »

I'm in for this week after all! For expansions, we should use Inns and Cathedrals because it features the element of the week - the big follower - and it leads the voting so far in the favourite expansion poll. What else do people want to play with this week?

danisthirty · « **Reply #78 on:** October 30, 2014, 08:57:11 AM »

We should include at least one more major expansion (and it shouldn't be The Tower!)

I'm thinking perhaps Traders & Builders and/or Princess & Dragon? We didn't play with German Monasteries last week either because of the bug with The Tower but there's nothing to stop us from including it this week.

How about The Count too? JCZ doesn't really include this as an expansion but it does allow you to use the 12-tile City of Carcassonne as a starting point...

jungleboy · « **Reply #79 on:** October 30, 2014, 09:13:18 AM »

I don't know if I can handle two weeks in a row with destructive expansions! So I vote for T&B instead of P&D.

So:
Count (tiles only for a different look)
I&C
T&B
German monasteries

You thought I forgot the Phantom for a second, didn't you Dan?

danisthirty · « **Reply #80 on:** October 30, 2014, 09:25:49 AM »

Quote from: jungleboy on October 30, 2014, 09:13:18 AM

You thought I forgot the Phantom for a second, didn't you Dan?

Oh OK then... if you insist!

I'm thinking it might be fun to include something else we've never used before too, like Corn Circles/ Tunnels/ Festival? My preference would probably be Corn Circles and/ or Tunnels just to add a bit of colour? Perhaps this:

Base Game (72 tiles)
Count (tiles only)
Inns & Cathedrals (18 tiles)
Traders & Builders (24 tiles)
German Monasteries (6 tiles)
Corn Circles (6 tiles)
Tunnels (4 tiles)
The Phantom

This makes 130 tiles.

@B1nder: are you playing this week? If so, do you have any preferences?

jungleboy · « **Reply #81 on:** October 30, 2014, 09:30:56 AM »

Sounds good to me. I better brush up on the Corn Circles and the Tunnels because I don't own the physical copies (yet) and have never played with them.

Do we have Mr Numbers back this week?

danisthirty · « **Reply #82 on:** October 30, 2014, 09:36:38 AM »

I've played once or twice (literally) with Corn Circles but never with Tunnels. I tried it on JCZ against an AI opponent and found it pretty weird, so I was going to treat this as a learning experience and see what happens...

B1nder · « **Reply #83 on:** October 30, 2014, 11:38:33 AM »

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

danisthirty · « **Reply #84 on:** October 30, 2014, 12:09:27 PM »

Quote from: B1nder on October 30, 2014, 11:38:33 AM

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

CC2 rather than CC1 is fine with me. As is Festival. Takes the total up to 140 tiles but that's not so bad...

danisthirty · « **Reply #85 on:** October 31, 2014, 07:50:22 AM »

jungleboy · « **Reply #86 on:** October 31, 2014, 07:54:19 AM »

This was a rubbish game for me, and the scoreline is quite embarrassing. I committed a lot of meeples early, including four to a cathedral city that no one else had any meeples in! Dan tried to block me in two places, and in one of those I chose to box myself in needing a CRRF tile to stop him from leaving me with a rarer CRFF tile to complete the city. In the end iI never got this tile (although b1nder got plenty of them!) and the city was never finished, and it wouldn’t have been worth it even if it was finished as there were only 11 tiles in it.

Elsewhere, I challenged Dan for another city with two meeples and eventually lost it as he swooped in with his double meeple.

My overcommitment of meeples to both of these cities left me unable to accumulate points early in the game and both Dan and b1nder built a big lead over me and I never recovered. After about 50 tiles I still only had three points! Soon it became clear that the cathedral city wasn’t going to be the game-changer I had hoped for and my chances were pretty much gone. I tried to take over the largest farm with my remaining meeples but in the end Dan won the farm and the game.

Basically my problem here was that I didn’t use a balanced approach to gain points throughout the game and instead put all my eggs in a few baskets, as Dan poetically said in the in-game chat. In the end I didn’t complete any of the three major features I fought for, so I was deservedly well beaten by two better players on the night.

danisthirty · « **Reply #87 on:** October 31, 2014, 08:01:27 AM »

Regardless of strategy, I think it can make all the difference if you get a few lucky breaks from time to time (I played a game against quevy recently and got dozens of them!).

On this occasion you didn't get any although I think you could probably have swung things back in your favour slightly if any of the extra expansions (Crop Circles 2, Festival) had made any sense to any of us.

There's always next week...

jungleboy · « **Reply #88 on:** October 31, 2014, 09:22:47 AM »

Yes, I only drew two festival tiles for the whole game. On the first one, since it was the first time I had played with the festival, I didn't know I could remove one of my followers. On the second one, I chose to place a farmer instead, though in hindsight this was obviously a mistake.