I was definitely wary of you somehow coming back by completing that large cathedral city, so I spent a fair bit of attention on that in the last half of the game (including placing one of my guys close by in case I had to parachute him in to share the city with you if it looked like it would be completed). But with about 10-12 tiles left I was fairly confident it wasn't going to happen.
It was nice to have my builder available and placed on a long road near the end of the game so as to be able to steal extra turns and prevent you from chipping away and getting too many of those "decent handfuls of points" you were after. ;-)
You picked up a nice 15 points on your last two tiles (and your builder turn stole my last tile, which I would have used to get 6-8 points), so I think that closed the gap from that 50+ margin of victory you were expecting.
I felt very bad for you after you misplaced your 2x guy, but as usual you made the best of a mistake/bad situation with smart plays later in the game.
Great game and good luck in the rest of your matches!
I will be here. But we will need somebody to host, if you can't.
Started by danisthirty
Started by MrNumbers