Tuesday evening with John and Tim (1/2)

Well, a game of supposedly "quick" Settlers with John and Tim will always be a contradiction. In this case, it ran for 46 minutes (I think). John built to a quick lead, and at 8 points, he was just one soldier away from getting the Largest Army and win. But, Tim didn't want that to happen...instead, he built a long enough road to take away John's Longest Road, so we play some more. Eventually it got to a point where both John and Tim had 9 points. It was my turn, and John had received a ton of resources. I think the only way I could win was to get more development cards, but unfortunately that didn't happen (I've already had 2 VP cards). I traded with Tim to get those development cards. Tim's next, and he used the resource that he got from me and won the game. John was not happy, obviously, because he could have won next...heh. Of course even if I didn't make that last trade with Tim, he still would have won, but John would complain about it, obviously. Final score: Me 8, Tim 10, John 9.