Yesterday afternoon I had my last games session with my friend Aimé before I move to a new country on Friday. We played Indigo (with junglegirl too), Carcassonne: the Castle (with Falcon expansion!), Istanbul, Lost Cities, and symbolically ended with Carcassonne, since that's what we've played the most over the last 3-4 years since we started playing games together.
The Carcassonne game featured Traders & Builders, the Tower, German castles, the Spielbox halflings and the phantom, and this was an epic game. Aimé (black) led by as many as 52 points at one stage (it's so easy to pile up the points early on with the bonus points from the features connected to the German castles and with the phantom) but I fought back to get the scores even during the last quarter of the game and then it came down to the huge farm. I originally had two meeples to her none, but one of them was kidnapped by the tower. She managed to get three in at one stage but I kidnapped two of them. Eventually we tied it and it came down to the other, smaller end-game scoring points. She won two of the three trade goods which I guess was the difference in the end and she won by four points. Regardless, it was a really great game to finish off our Carcassonne rivalry - for now.
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