Author Topic: Order of the Meeple: Challenge Matches (Read 63456 times)

danisthirty · « **Reply #45 on:** March 14, 2017, 02:52:50 AM »

Quote from: Jéré on March 13, 2017, 02:19:44 PM

Dan challenged me... now he regrets...

Win or learn. Never regret.

ny1050220 · « **Reply #46 on:** March 14, 2017, 06:47:22 AM »

Quote from: danisthirty on March 14, 2017, 02:52:50 AM

Quote from: Jéré on March 13, 2017, 02:19:44 PM
Dan challenged me... now he regrets...

Win or learn. Never regret.

Nice saying! Merited.

danisthirty · « **Reply #47 on:** March 07, 2018, 08:59:12 AM »

Hear ye, hear ye! I hereby challenge jungleboy and Jere to challenge matches to be played before the end of this month!

Let me know when you’re free guys!

danisthirty · « **Reply #48 on:** March 07, 2018, 02:09:57 PM »

Quote from: danisthirty on March 07, 2018, 08:59:12 AM

Hear ye, hear ye! I hereby challenge jungleboy and Jere to challenge matches to be played before the end of this month!

Let me know when you’re free guys!

Jungleboy was quick to respond to the challenge and we ended up playing a couple of games this evening. The eventual score was 2 - 0 to me meaning I'm halfway towards winning two challenge matches against Red (or above) opponents.

Game 1 (started by jungleboy)

danisthirty 83 : 61 jungleboy

Game 2 (started by danisthirty)

danisthirty 114 : 94 jungleboy

Thanks for the games jungleboy!

jungleboy · « **Reply #49 on:** March 07, 2018, 03:02:08 PM »

After my glorious victory on Saturday in a 4-player game at the D20 meetup, this was not a great follow-up. There was lots of trapping in the first game and I ran out of meeples and just couldn't draw the tiles I needed. The second game was better but Dan took control in the second half and I just couldn't get back into it. Congrats Dan!

danisthirty · « **Reply #50 on:** March 16, 2018, 04:28:25 AM »

Issuing a challenge to MrNumbers as well!

danisthirty · « **Reply #51 on:** March 16, 2018, 04:09:28 PM »

Quote from: danisthirty on March 16, 2018, 04:28:25 AM

Issuing a challenge to MrNumbers as well!

We played our challenge match this evening and after a promising start (for me) it went downhill after that with the final score being 2 games to 1 in MrNumbers' favour!

Game 1 (started by danisthirty)

danisthirty 116 : 100 MrNumbers

MrNumbers made a costly mistake in this game where he failed to notice that a field he was aggressively adding farmers to wasn't connected to the main farm where all the points (and my farmers) were. He spotted this once I'd gone to the trouble of making a hole where he needed a joining tile to be, but with 3 farmers already committed to the smaller farm there was no way back by then. Even so, it wasn't an easy win by any stretch of the imagination and the fact that there were only 16 points between us at the end of the game just goes to show how many points MrNumbers was able to generate elsewhere!

Game 2 (started by MrNumbers)

MrNumbers 96 : 93 danisthirty

This game seemed like it was going to end in the same way as the first. I enjoyed my fair share of luck, but MrNumbers took a risk to win a nice city outright which left him waiting for the last cccr and also a cfcf to complete his city (and adjacent cloister). The game was turned on its head somewhat when he then drew both of the tiles he needed one after another! With a few more meeples back in hand and a big points boost MrNumbers secured the win thanks to the completion of another city (where he needed, and drew the final crrr) and a few small farms dotted around. I had felt I was going to win this one, but after his mistake in the first game this felt like some sort of karmic realignment...

Game 3 (started by MrNumbers)

MrNumbers 78 : 61 danisthirty

This was a dreadful game for me! I just didn't seem to be able to close anything and had rather a frustrating time of it seeing MrNumbers getting all the tiles I wanted so badly! Desperation got the better of me towards the end, and after placing my last meeple on a farm which I never managed to join to the more valuable farm next door, all I could do was sit back and watch MrNumbers increase his score whilst swearing at the curtains.

Congratulations on your wins MrNumbers! I'll be back again next month I'm sure...

danisthirty · « **Reply #52 on:** April 26, 2018, 12:08:34 PM »

Since it's just Jere and I, I am challenging him to a challenge match!

Jéré · « **Reply #53 on:** April 26, 2018, 12:10:30 PM »

Quote from: danisthirty on April 26, 2018, 12:08:34 PM

Since it's just Jere and I, I am challenging him to a challenge match!

Oh you dare!!

danisthirty · « **Reply #54 on:** April 26, 2018, 03:07:36 PM »

Quote from: Jéré on April 26, 2018, 12:10:30 PM

Quote from: danisthirty on April 26, 2018, 12:08:34 PM
Since it's just Jere and I, I am challenging him to a challenge match!

Oh you dare!!

I do! And I'm glad I did...

Game 1 (started by danisthirty)

danisthirty 85 : 73 Jéré

Game 2 (started by Jéré)

danisthirty 62 : 47 Jéré

Two great games, and both very close! My drawing the final fffr cloister tile in the first game allowed me to clinch it by winning the main 24-point farm outright; robbing Jéré of a small farm of his own and taking 8 points for the cloister in the process.

Jéré didn't manage his meeples as carefully as he normally does in our second game and after a couple of risks didn't pay off he got himself into the tricky situation of having no meeples left to play with!

He had some good points on the board though, and left me with a bit of a mountain to climb to take the win. Again, I drew a tile I needed in the end - the final rrrf (after Jéré had drawn the first 3 of them

) - and merged the two farms to take overall control of both. Very low-scoring for both of us, but in the end I had enough points to win the challenge match 2 - 0!

Thanks for the games Jeremie. It's rare enough that I beat you at all, so to win 2 games in a row was something special for me against my #1 Carcassonne nemesis!