Author Topic: T & B League: Group A (Read 57130 times)

jungleboy · « **Reply #45 on:** January 17, 2015, 02:23:51 PM »

rosco 205, jungleboy 199

This was a crushing defeat for me as I was in control for the entire match and somehow let it slip. I will let rosco explain his stunning comeback!

Rosco · « **Reply #46 on:** January 17, 2015, 02:39:43 PM »

I think i probably just played the best game I ever have - and it was against one of the best players on this forum!
205-199 in my favour!

Well JB pretty much had the lead from the outset and was building a nice supply of barrels and silk. He was being surprisingly cooperative by finishing lost of my features - obviously with an ulterior motive. I could see that although I was in the lead with pure points, JB had 2 lots of trade goods sewn up and had 2 farmers and a pig on a 10 city farm and had one of my meeples stuck not doing much, and in no time i had no more meeples left in my supply. There was one thing i needed to turn it around and with only a few tiles to go it appeared! a cccf tile to allow me to finish a large city which gave me the lead with corn and gave me about 20 points straight off. Now I could see that it was going to be tight. but still that farm was his so with the last handful of tiles i managed to match his two farmers and pig and also block his 3rd farmer from getting in.

Although, as JB contemplated his last tile to ensure the win, I added up the points and still thought he had it, albeit by only 1 or 2 points. However he placed his tile, I placed the final tile of the game and BOOM everything changed in an instant and we had a massively high scoring game, with only a few points in it, but most definitaly and unequivacably in my favour.

Thanks Jungleboy for that - it was Awesome!

Here are the screen shots:

Andrew the Ambo · « **Reply #47 on:** January 17, 2015, 11:54:52 PM »

I am available for a game now. I wok go to the chat room and check it every 10 minutes or so if anyone is keen.

jungleboy · « **Reply #48 on:** January 18, 2015, 12:13:00 AM »

From my point of view, I don't really know how I lost the game with Rosco. With 20 tiles left, I had two meeples and a pig in the dominant farm and he had nothing, while I had already won two of the three trade goods. In the chat he said to me "You have this in the bag," and I agreed. Then suddenly he managed to put two meeples in the farm in the shortest possible time frame (four moves in total). I scrambled to try to add a third meeple but the only way I could do it required that I draw a curved road tile to join it and this gave Rosco a fairly easy opportunity to block it by adding another road edge to the required tile, which he did.

In hindsight, my big mistake was not making the large city in the north impossible to close. I drew a tile with about 30-40 tiles left that I could have put in the city which would have left Rosco needing a CCCC tile to close it, and all those tiles were already out. I knew that when I drew the tile, but I chose to close another city with my builder in it instead, hoping I would have another chance to block the larger city. Rosco soon identified the potential problem with the CCCC tile and to avoid this he placed a tile in the city so that it was now a CCCF tile that was needed, which he eventually drew to win the city and a crucial wheat good, which allowed him to take the lead (and ultimately win) that good. A couple of moves earlier I had the opportunity to close the city myself, which in hindsight would have won me the game because of the 20-point swing in the wheat goods.

So, I will rue this one for a while...

kettlefish · « **Reply #49 on:** January 18, 2015, 02:13:25 AM »

Does anyone play with Andrew the Ambo this morning (middle european time)?

Andrew the Ambo · « **Reply #50 on:** January 18, 2015, 02:34:40 AM »

Yes Kettlefish. Played jungleboy yesterday, and just finished a great game against B1nder.
I found it quite a tense game, where we were close in scoring throughout. I managed to early on trap B1nders builder, or so I thought. After about 5 turns he got just the right tile to free it. Dashed!
I then managed to trap a few of his other meeples, and also glom into his best farm while he had no meeples to defend or attack (something I learnt the hard way against jungleboy). The result was 188:106.

Good luck B1nder against danisthirty ;-)

kettlefish · « **Reply #51 on:** January 18, 2015, 03:51:07 AM »

B1nder and danisthirty played their game today, but I don't know their result of score, only that B1nder was winning.

I need the result for my x-list.

danisthirty · « **Reply #52 on:** January 18, 2015, 03:58:31 AM »

Scores were: 153 - 142 to B1nder...

B1nder got off to a good start and grew quite a lead which I eventually clawed back after trapping 2 of his meeples and his builder against 1 of mine. There was just one tile left to get them back, which he drew, and then drew the tile I'd been wanting for some time with his builder turn. This was the low point for me, although I didn't feel like I was out of the game until he closed another fairly good city, locking me out of it in the process...

Well played B1nder!

ny1050220 · « **Reply #53 on:** January 18, 2015, 06:47:11 AM »

I'm now ready for games. If anyone can host a game or tell me how to host, that'll be appreciated! And, what's the chat room that you guys have been talking about?

kettlefish · « **Reply #54 on:** January 18, 2015, 06:48:56 AM »

I've created a x-list for the scoring - 18 01 2015.

jungleboy has played 4 games.
Rosco, danisthirty and B1nder have played 3 games.
Carcking, SRBO and ny1050220 didn't play any game yet.

8 games were played till this afternoon (German time).

The highest score: 240 points.
The smallest score: 82 points.

The highest score difference: 137 points.
The smallest score difference: 6 points.

The highest losing score: 199 points
The lowest winning score: 153 points

kettlefish · « **Reply #55 on:** January 18, 2015, 06:51:49 AM »

Quote from: ny1050220 on January 18, 2015, 06:47:11 AM

And, what's the chat room that you guys have been talking about?

Here you can find our chat room - we use it in both league groups:

http://sydby.com/carcassonne/irc/index.html

ny1050220 · « **Reply #56 on:** January 18, 2015, 06:52:54 AM »

Quote from: kettlefish on January 18, 2015, 06:51:49 AM

Quote from: ny1050220 on January 18, 2015, 06:47:11 AM
And, what's the chat room that you guys have been talking about?

Here you can find our chat room - we use it in both league groups:

http://sydby.com/carcassonne/irc/index.html

Thanks!

jungleboy · « **Reply #57 on:** January 18, 2015, 07:36:07 AM »

I will be available tonight between 8-11pm CET, which is 2-5pm US EST. It would be good to get in a game or two, especially against opponents in North America. But I need someone to host.

MrNumbers · « **Reply #58 on:** January 18, 2015, 07:52:10 AM »

Quote from: jungleboy on January 18, 2015, 07:36:07 AM

But I need someone to host.

If danisthirty won't be available, today I am online most of the time.

danisthirty · « **Reply #59 on:** January 18, 2015, 08:34:12 AM »

I should be around this evening but I'll drop you both a PM with the connection details in and will leave it waiting on the pre-game screen for you to use if I'm not.

Best of luck to both!