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Leagues (including expansion leagues) / Round 6: quevy vs jungleboy
« on: June 26, 2014, 11:28:21 PM »
Quevy and I played our final league matches last night as part of our battle for 3rd/4th/5th with Carcking. I won both matches to end the 'season' on a good note. The first game was 86-57 and the second game was 89-84.
In the first match, quevy started out well and soon built a decent lead of 20 points or so by completing some early cities. He also glommed on to one of my cities and the battle for this northern city became one of the key aspects of the game. I put a second knight in the area (needing a CCXX tile to join), and quevy soon drew the two-city CCFF tile. He could have blocked out my second knight and closed the city in the process (which would have given both of us the same score), but instead he chose to place the tile nearby and try to add a second knight to the main city. In the end my second knight joined the main city but his didn't. He later added a second knight but I added a third, and though the city was never finished, this was a 24-point unfinished city for me that represented most of the difference in the final score.
Elsewhere on the board, quevy had set himself up to finish both a cloister and a 4-point road with a single RRXX tile. I tried to make this difficult for him by adding an extra tile in the area that made him need a RRRX tile. Since the RRRR tile was already out, quevy placed the fourth tile around the tile he needed to ensure that a simple RRRF tile (the T-intersection) was all he needed. This would have also closed a second, larger road, so he had three meeples riding on this one tile. Even though there were still plenty of tiles left in the bag, he never got it and was therefore quite unlucky. With three meeples tied up there, one on a farm, two in the large northern city and one more trying to get into that city, that left quevy with no more meeples. That allowed me to put a second farmer onto the main (and only) farm and I ended up winning it for 18 points.
The farm and the large unfinished city were the keys to this game. Quevy led for most of the game after my slow start but these two features alone scored me 42 points in end-game scoring, almost half my total score.
In the first match, quevy started out well and soon built a decent lead of 20 points or so by completing some early cities. He also glommed on to one of my cities and the battle for this northern city became one of the key aspects of the game. I put a second knight in the area (needing a CCXX tile to join), and quevy soon drew the two-city CCFF tile. He could have blocked out my second knight and closed the city in the process (which would have given both of us the same score), but instead he chose to place the tile nearby and try to add a second knight to the main city. In the end my second knight joined the main city but his didn't. He later added a second knight but I added a third, and though the city was never finished, this was a 24-point unfinished city for me that represented most of the difference in the final score.
Elsewhere on the board, quevy had set himself up to finish both a cloister and a 4-point road with a single RRXX tile. I tried to make this difficult for him by adding an extra tile in the area that made him need a RRRX tile. Since the RRRR tile was already out, quevy placed the fourth tile around the tile he needed to ensure that a simple RRRF tile (the T-intersection) was all he needed. This would have also closed a second, larger road, so he had three meeples riding on this one tile. Even though there were still plenty of tiles left in the bag, he never got it and was therefore quite unlucky. With three meeples tied up there, one on a farm, two in the large northern city and one more trying to get into that city, that left quevy with no more meeples. That allowed me to put a second farmer onto the main (and only) farm and I ended up winning it for 18 points.
The farm and the large unfinished city were the keys to this game. Quevy led for most of the game after my slow start but these two features alone scored me 42 points in end-game scoring, almost half my total score.