I don't know how helpful they'll be as most of them are kind of obvious, but I posted a list of Tips for a 4-player Basic Game a while ago.
Also, since you're an iOS user, I would recommend playing against 3 AI opponents at once (doesn't really matter which but I tend to practice against the Witch, the Warlock and the other guy who Jere used to have as his profile pic). A couple of dozen games against them should help to stand you in good stead!
I'll be around most evenings for some practice against human opposition too, hopefully there will be enough of us for a 4 player game.
Quote from: danisthirty on September 16, 2014, 03:07:04 AM2) "The early farmer wins the field"[Removed five pages of Dan's thesis]This tip can be summarised in two words: "farm early".To this one I'd like to add that farming early might be a good idea but that farming often might not be. It depends on each individual game, of course, but in a 4-player game there are often many incomplete cities and in the AI games I play, sometimes the biggest farm is only worth 12 or even 9 points.
2) "The early farmer wins the field"[Removed five pages of Dan's thesis]This tip can be summarised in two words: "farm early".
Quote from: danisthirty on December 06, 2015, 10:57:40 PMI don't know how helpful they'll be as most of them are kind of obvious, but I posted a list of Tips for a 4-player Basic Game a while ago.They're still helpful, thanks for the reminder (and for doing it in the first place). I just re-read them and posted something in the thread. Did your experience at this year's UK championships change your view on any of these points, or did you learn anything new?
Quote from: danisthirty on December 06, 2015, 10:57:40 PMAlso, since you're an iOS user, I would recommend playing against 3 AI opponents at once (doesn't really matter which but I tend to practice against the Witch, the Warlock and the other guy who Jere used to have as his profile pic). A couple of dozen games against them should help to stand you in good stead!I've been doing that, but I still find it somewhat of a crapshoot. If I play a 4-player game using I&C and T&B against those opponents, I win almost every time. But with the base game, I probably win only about a third to half the games. Sometimes you just don't get the tiles, right? I also think it's down to my own approach in certain cases, related to something you pointed out in the linked thread above. It's still natural for me to want to start and build my own features, which works for me in most games. But for a 4-player base game, I need to get more into sharing and think about the game from a different perspective.
Quote from: danisthirty on December 06, 2015, 10:57:40 PMI'll be around most evenings for some practice against human opposition too, hopefully there will be enough of us for a 4 player game.Cool, thanks. We're leaving on Thursday evening so that only leaves three more nights at home. I'll try to set something up in the organise a game thread.
A 9 or 12 point farm in a 4-player game is not to be sniffed at!
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