Thursday games with Tony and Zhentao (2/3)
Carc with expansion! Zhentao and Tony finally agreed to add an expansion to this game, and Inns and Cathedrals are mild enough that it doesn't change much of the game, so off we go. I drawn both Cathedrals, placing one in Tony's large city, hoping that he wouldn't complete it, and placing the other one in my large city, hoping that I could complete it. In the end, both of us gave up on completing our Cathedral cities, and ended up scoring nothing for those cities...oops. Tony's was just one tile short, though (the SW city in the picture).
One of the most interesting feature was the one on the NW corner. Tony first had a city there, however, Zhentao built two cities nearby, threatening to join them together and making Tony's city useless. To complete all of these cities, though, they needed a 3-sided city tile. There was one 4-sided city tile in the original set of tiles, but I drew that one, so I didn't complete that city for them. The 3-sided tiles came very late in the game. There were the two Cathedrals in the expansion, but of course I drew those, so that didn't work. Just when we were thinking that there was no way that those cities could be completed, Zhentao drew a 4-disjoint-city tile from the expansion! He didn't get the huge city, but he did complete two cities, Tony completed his one city, and they all got tons of points for that. In addition, Zhentao farmed in the middle of that tile, so he got 12 points off of that farm. Doh.
The big meeples only came into play once, when I was competing for that (what end up being) a small city on the extreme SE. Zhentao was not happy...heh.
Close to the end, Tony drew a tile and placed it quickly. But later he wanted to change it so that he could join a farmer to the giant farm. Too bad, we said no. And what happened was that had we let Tony join that farm, he would have tied for first place for the game! This is almost reminiscent of a previous game that we played...so proper farming is important!
Final scores: Me 92, Tony 85, Zhentao 108.
One of the most interesting feature was the one on the NW corner. Tony first had a city there, however, Zhentao built two cities nearby, threatening to join them together and making Tony's city useless. To complete all of these cities, though, they needed a 3-sided city tile. There was one 4-sided city tile in the original set of tiles, but I drew that one, so I didn't complete that city for them. The 3-sided tiles came very late in the game. There were the two Cathedrals in the expansion, but of course I drew those, so that didn't work. Just when we were thinking that there was no way that those cities could be completed, Zhentao drew a 4-disjoint-city tile from the expansion! He didn't get the huge city, but he did complete two cities, Tony completed his one city, and they all got tons of points for that. In addition, Zhentao farmed in the middle of that tile, so he got 12 points off of that farm. Doh.
The big meeples only came into play once, when I was competing for that (what end up being) a small city on the extreme SE. Zhentao was not happy...heh.
Close to the end, Tony drew a tile and placed it quickly. But later he wanted to change it so that he could join a farmer to the giant farm. Too bad, we said no. And what happened was that had we let Tony join that farm, he would have tied for first place for the game! This is almost reminiscent of a previous game that we played...so proper farming is important!
Final scores: Me 92, Tony 85, Zhentao 108.
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