Lukey-Dukey and I had a very enjoyable game last night. It was quite late so we didn’t want too many additional tiles, so we settled on using the base game with the German Castles mini expansion and The Astronomers fan expansion by Decar. We’ve only played with The Astronomers a couple of times so were keen to use it again. It worked really well, with several stars in the same constellation falling neatly into line earning us some easy points, although for no deliberate reason most ended up placed very near each other. I was particularly pleased to draw the FFCR tile with the blue star as it meant I could finish my cloister and get a meeple back, as I feared that I was trapped for good.
Lukey played very well and really limited my significant scoring opportunities, the most noteworthy was managing to get two of his monkeys into the large city and share the 36 points. He was ahead for virtually the whole game and took great joy in lapping me on the score track! He didn’t react to my show of force after I swiftly deployed 3 farmers and sacrificed his lone farmer in the main field. However, despite claiming the main field which contained 11 completed cities, it just wasn’t enough and Lukey-Dukey claimed a thoroughly deserved victory. Final scores were 169 (Monkey) v 146 (Cat).
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