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Miscellaneous => Forum Games => Non-Mafia Game Threads => Topic started by: AHoppy on May 29, 2013, 05:32:23 pm
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After Agricola III, 4 of the 5 players wanted a rematch, so here it is. If anyone would like to fill the 5th spot, they are welcome to join.
Agricola Rulebook (http://www.zmangames.com/boardgames/files/agricola/Agricola_Rules.pdf)
The plan currently is to use all 3 decks (E,I,K) and drafting the starting hands. We are also probably going to use tournament mode. Unless anyone objects to these settings, this is what we are going to use. Current players:
1. AHoppy
2. Jack Rudd
3. Watno
4. Michaeljb
I'll leave the signup open for a week (June 5) and if we haven't gotten a 5th, we'll just start. If there is more interest, we can always start an Agricola V. Please leave your BAJ (http://www.boiteajeux.net/index.php) username when you sign up. And good luck!
Here's a link to the game
http://www.boiteajeux.net/jeux/agr/partie.php?id=871749
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So, it'll be a 4 player game then?
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Ah sorry. Looks like it. I'm only on my phone right now and I'm exhausted. I've had a lot of other things going on and since nobody posted, kinda forgot about this. So I'll start the game up tomorrow morning
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The game has been started
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Alright, so for the draft, we are going to need to know once everyone is done. So in the style of PBF 7 wonders, put DONE next to your name when you are done
AHoppy - DONE
Jack Rudd - DONE
michaeljb
Watno
I just realized... Watno is going to nested quote me all game again...
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AHoppy - DONE
Jack Rudd - DONE
michaeljb - DONE
Watno
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AHoppy -
Jack Rudd -
michaeljb -
Watno - DONE
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AHoppy -
Jack Rudd - DONE
michaeljb -
Watno - DONE
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AHoppy -
Jack Rudd - DONE
michaeljb - DONE
Watno - DONE
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AHoppy - DONE
Jack Rudd
michaeljb
Watno
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AHoppy - DONE
Jack Rudd
michaeljb - DONE
Watno
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AHoppy - DONE
Jack Rudd - DONE
michaeljb - DONE
Watno
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AHoppy -
Jack Rudd -
michaeljb -
Watno - DONE
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AHoppy -
Jack Rudd - DONE
michaeljb -
Watno - DONE
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AHoppy - DONE
Jack Rudd - DONE
michaeljb -
Watno - DONE
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AHoppy -
Jack Rudd -
michaeljb - DONE
Watno -
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AHoppy -
Jack Rudd - DONE
michaeljb - DONE
Watno -
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AHoppy -
Jack Rudd - DONE
michaeljb - DONE
Watno - DONE
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AHoppy - DONE
Jack Rudd -
michaeljb -
Watno -
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AHoppy - DONE
Jack Rudd -
michaeljb -
Watno - DONE
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AHoppy - DONE
Jack Rudd -
michaeljb - DONE
Watno - DONE
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AHoppy
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Michaeljb
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Watno
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AHoppy
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Jack Rudd
Well I'm pretty dumb... totally forgot the free occupation space...
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Michaeljb
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Watno
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Jack
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Michaeljb
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watno
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JR
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Michaeljb
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Watno
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AHoppy
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Watno
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AHoppy
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JR
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Michaeljb
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AHoppy
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JR
It has come to the point where watno's posts fill my 1920x1080 monitor... well done
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Michaeljb
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JR
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Michaeljb
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Watno
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Nobody cares, I'm sure, but...
Session Report!
I got to play my first game of IRL Agricola today! It was a 5p game. One friend had already played it twice, the other three were new. It was tough explaining the rules at the start -- I don't have any patter down. I probably should have used the instructional side of the game boards. But once we got a few rounds in, they got the gist of it.
My experience was completely different from the one in the game we played on BaJ. In that game, I was heavy into improvements because I knew I would have Braggart coming up. This time, I delved deep into occupations. I actually ended up playing all 7! They were all pretty great even though we just dealt randomly. I did find that it was much more difficult to keep a plan in mind when playing IRL. Online, I kept a sticky note on my desktop with some notes.
In the first round, P1 predictably took the free occupation spot. I snapped up the second one despite the 1f cost to put out Mushroom Collector (when taking wood, you can leave 1 behind to get 2 food instead). I got SO much use out of it. My friends did not realize at first how important wood was (like me in our game). I just hoarded wood and got a bunch of food as well.
I realized that I had a nice 3 card combo: Patron (when you play an Occupation, you get 2 Food before you pay the costs of the Occupation), Writing Desk (When you use an Occ action, you may play 2 Occs one after another; the second costs 2 food), and Reeve (take X wood depending on # of rounds left; all players with most occs gets 3 bonus points at end of game).
With this in mind, I played Patron. Soon after, I played Writing Desk (which had a prereq of 2 occupations).
Eventually, I was the first to build rooms, and it was a double expansion to boot. I was able to FG early, and this of course really helped me take a lead. Elsewhere, two players were setting up bread engines. This was quite nice because of another occupation I had, which I soon put out. With Patron and Writing Desk, I could put out two occupations with one action and they were free (actually, I gained 1 net food if I got the cheap occ space). So I put out Bread Seller (get 1 food per grain baked whenever anyone bakes) and Land Agent (take 1 veggie; when I use the veggie space I get a grain). I had a soft spot for this guy after our game, and when I played him it was nice because I needed the veggie for food. Late in the game I used his power twice to get veggies with grain, which helped a lot with efficiency.
Soon after that, both hearths got taken. That was a bit sad -- I was hoping to pick one up. But the cheap Fireplace was returned, so I renovated to Clay and grabbed the fireplace to boot.
I was still hoarding more Wood, and I also managed to score several 6 Clay actions. This was especially nice when I put out my next set of occupations. Clay Seller, which lets me convert: 2 Clay to 1 Sheep or 1 Reed; 3 Clay to 1 boar or 1 Stone; 4 Clay to 1 Cattle. I ended up using him a LOT. I know I pulled 2 Cattle at once from him right before a harvest, and I used it a couple of other times as well. And the other occupation was Stone Carrier -- whenever you take Stone, get an extr stone. If I receive other resources (i.e. from the SWR spot) it costs 1 Food. I ended up using this several times as well, always from the SWR spot actually. And then the only occ left in my hand was the Reeve itself, which I played in the second last round or so.
Late-mid game I built all 15 fences into 3 pastures. I converted clay into a pair of breeding cattle and I also managed to get a pair of sheep and a pair of boar at some point. Later on I expanded my clay hut and built 1 fenced stable. A while after that I built the Spindle (get 1/2 extra food in the field phase of a harvest when I have at least 3/5 sheep) and the Drinking Trough (each pasture holds an extra 2 animals).
In the end I had filled every space, 4 grain, 3 veggies, 8 sheep, 5 boar and 5 cattle. No extra food really (though I could have managed my animals a bit better) and only like 1 wood for 53 points!
We all had a blast. There was one guy who did not realize that you got negative points for empty spaces and for not diversifying, but he ended up second anyway. They should do much better next time, now that they know the various rules.
But man, Mushroom Collector sure was fun at the start, and the Bread Seller was so handy later on. I must have pulled nearly 10 food from each.
It was also a bit odd not being first player most of the time. ;)
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AHoppy
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JR
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Michaeljb
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Watno
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AHoppy
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JR
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Michaeljb
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AHoppy
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JR
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Michaeljb
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Watno
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AHoppy
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JR
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Michaeljb
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Watno
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AHoppy
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Lots of food for me :)
Watno
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Lots of food for me :)
Watno
Wowwww.
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Watno?
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AHoppy
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sorry for the delay
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JR
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michaeljb
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Watno
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AHoppy
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this is not working out :(
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JR
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One more food improvement...
JR
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AHoppy
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One more food improvement...
JR
Scary. :o
But I guess that means you don't have that Fruit Tree.
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JR
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Michaeljb
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Watno
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AHoppy
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JR
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Michaeljb
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Watno
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AHoppy
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JR
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Watno
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AHoppy
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Sorry for the delay again.
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JR
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Michaeljb
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Watno
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AHoppy
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OOps: michael
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Didn't realize I could have taken family growth last turn...oops
Anyway, back to Watno
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AHoppy
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Btw, you couldn't have taken family growth last turn, but I have Chef de famille (Head of family?)
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Oh, right. I just saw that you had taken family growth and thought that meant I missed a chance to take it myself. Didn't bother to look closer at your cards :P
(and yeah, in English the card name is Head of the Family)
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JR
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(sorry to interrupt your chain of posts)
I was looking to follow this game and learn how to play Agricola...does the site allow people to watch the games? If so, could someone give me a link, I don't see one in the OP
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I updated the OP
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Michaeljb
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Watno
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AHoppy
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JR
Shoot... I meant to plant my veggie... I really should take notes reminding myself what I am planning to do...
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Michaeljb
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Watno
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JackRudd
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Watno's turn for feeding
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JR to feed
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Munch, munch.
AHoppy
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Finally starting a family!
JR
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Michaeljb
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Watno
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AHoppy
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JR
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Michaeljb
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Watno
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AHoppy
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Michaeljb
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Watno
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back to you
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back to you
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JR
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Watno
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AHoppy
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JR
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Michaeljb
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Watno
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AHoppy
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Wow, I totally misunderstood Tavern during the draft.
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JR
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Michaeljb
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Watno
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AHoppy
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MJB
This whole not being able to get a family growth is killing me...
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Watno
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JR.
AHoppy should really get more people, he keeps not having his turn after mine.
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Michaeljb
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Watno
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AHoppy
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MJB. Watno, this really is getting ridiculous...
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Watno
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AHoppy
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JR
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JR?
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Sorry, the internet in my hotel in Penarth was dodgy. Michaeljb.
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Watno
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AHoppy
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JR
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Michaeljb
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AHoppy
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Michaeljb
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AHoppy
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mjb
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Watno
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AHoppy
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JR
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Michaeljb (and it's also your go in Puerto Rico).
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Oh, sorry, forgot about that game...I'll make a move there too :P
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AHoppy
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JR
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Michaeljb
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Watno
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JR
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Hmmm, BaJ seems to be playing up for me at the moment. I'm not sure what the problem is.
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What's the problem, JR? It seems to work fine for me.
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Did you get signed out? That happened to me in our game so when I went to the bookmarked page I could spectate but not click anything.
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Watno
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Michael
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AHoppy
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JR
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Watno
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AHoppy
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Michaeljb
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AHoppy
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AHoppy
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AHoppy
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I really hope you don't have an another ace up your sleeve, michael.
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Well I think you've got nothing to worry about...
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Yay!
Good game everyone.
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Watno's turn to harvest and take the win with some breeding livestock!
It was fun just playing out all those Food-over-time improvements (and 1 occ) ;D
I actually got kind of lucky with Quarryman, in that I didn't have much of a plan for Round 14 food (was hoping to get the Basketmaker's WS, but of course Watno scooped that up right after I got piles of Reed; my fallback was eating my animals), and I had planned on using the Stone (like on a basketmaker's workshop...), then I realized I had 4 Stone I didn't need, and the late Occupation turned into a 7 Food play, and looks like that gave me just the edge to finish ahead of JR. I had hoped to use my Tavern for points more than once, but then I had to spend all my actions playing catch-up on normal farm development after putting all my energy into things like Beehive.
Good game everyone!
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mjb, could you have played more occs or was every other action necessary for points? I think one more occ and you would have shared 3 points for having the most, and another occ would have taken away 3 points from Watno. Even useless occs would have been worth the 6 point swing. But I suppose Watno could have played his own useless occs to defend.
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AHoppy
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mjb, could you have played more occs or was every other action necessary for points? I think one more occ and you would have shared 3 points for having the most, and another occ would have taken away 3 points from Watno. Even useless occs would have been worth the 6 point swing. But I suppose Watno could have played his own useless occs to defend.
He would have needed 2 occupations for the swing, and he was tight on food anyway.
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^^^ yup