Capitals Ladder:
annie > craig
annie > delirium
challenge to prolix!
I took both, so the 4-player game is started.
Capitals Ladder:
annie over prolix
boomers
CR:
otthegreat > Thraeg
Good game! At the end I had 221 vps to Thraeg’s 68, but his 2 giants and dragon really had me on my back foot. I managed to kill his unicorn though and then swoop in on a manticore and finish off his wizard with a magic bolt. Rematch? 201535
Also, I finally had a chance to give Battle Academy a try. I’m otthegreat on there too and think I put up a challenge at Bocage (password: qto3) for anyone else who’s playing.
So, I just grabbed Ot’s BA challenge. What scenarios make good challenges? Are they all equally good?
Thraeg
5267
Good game! Surprised you risked going for the kill there rather than back off and wait for time to run out.
Joined the rematch, and I also have 201551 and 201552 open for challenges.
Glad to see you guys picking up BA!
Heh, don’t think you’d be asking that if you’d seen the text logs of Dave and me fumbling to figure out mechanics and objectives over the course of our game. All we’ve played is a full battle on Desert Encounter (which was fun and very closely contested) and the first couple turns of Road to Caen for our current rematch. We’re thinking of playing it twice, once with each side, to correct for any imbalance.
They’re all theoretically designed to be balanced and fun in multiplayer, but all you can see when choosing is a short text description that gives a limited amount of info. Based on that, I would avoid the “Invite Campaign” scenarios as they are designed to go with the demo and favor a new player that you’re introducing the game to. I’d probably also skip the Force Selection category until we’re all more experienced, as that would make for an extra layer of complications and might lead to unbalanced battles depending on what troops you each pick. So that leaves the 15-odd scenarios in the Desert, Bulge, Normandy, and Slitherine Map Pack categories, but among them I’m basically picking at random. I figure it should take a while to exhaust all of those, but if that day comes, there’s apparently a good amount of user-made maps available, as well as 30-ish multiplayer scenarios in the official expansions (I’m liking the game enough to be waffling on the expansion bundle at the current 50% discount, and will definitely grab it if it goes lower in a daily deal).
I’ve gone ahead and put up a couple more challenges (picking Desert Fort and Over the Hill scenarios), with the same qto3 password.
Two open CR games … 201694 & 201695 …
Okay, I put up Close Combat as a challenge with the now BA standard qto3 password. I grabbed Thraeg’s Desert Fort and it looks like someone else must have grabbed Over the Hill, because I didn’t see it listed.
I just made a mess of my first turn with Ot and I’m not even sure I posted my In-game Message properly. The Bocage Village scenario looks quite explosive.
I just grabbed rob’s 201694 CR game and I have two open
199780
199955
Lost Cities:
TheDukester def. Prolix
Obnoxious bonus points FTW!
My 201695 seems to be gone - or is hidden somehow. In any any case - I have also created 201747.
Edit: Ah, I think I must have clicked on “Leave Lobby” rather than “Back” when viewing 201695 (so that i could get its id).
Back to winning ways in Carcassonne at last!
craiggiarc > Beatrix
I got your message no problem. Yeah Bocage probably wasn’t the best intro scenario. Teaches me to just pick a map at random. As far as making messes, all I can say is that seeing your panther appear out of the fog of war threw me into quite a panic. And I’m the one who took Thraeg’s Over the Hill scenario. Sorry about that, I forgot to post here before heading out this morning.
If you were scared of the Panther…
Sorry Ot, but I didn’t read your message until I’d played my turn. Let’s try it again with
199780 or
199955
Lost Cities:
TheDukester def. Craigcraig
Last-card shenanigans. GG.
No worries. You should still count that as a win, there wasn’t much chance I was going to come back.
I grabbed 199780.
Lost Cities:
TheDukester def. Clyve. GG
