Saturday, January 16, 2010

Gold Secret, 15 points

welcome back to a new season of 'the settlers of catan'

we are here on a warm sunny winter afternoon for a match between :

stupa/travix/unnamedplayer :: red/blue/orange :: 115/16/8

travix won the toss and went in for the only 6-9-5 spot on the map, reluctantly the unnamedplayer takes a 6-9-11 for stone and sheep and stupa takes the most balanced spots covering most resources.

as the game begins, orange leaps up to make a very fast settlement and makes roads. remembering the forest escape strategy of making roads and opening tiles instead of hoarding cards for making a settlement in the next turn did favor orange. with no particularly good spots but all okay spots orange accelerates to a very early lead, reaching 6 points when the opponents together werent 6 points.

upgrading the brick-wood settlement first instead of the stone-sheep settlement in the hope of making more roads soon did offer a minor advantage.

none of the players went for the development cards, which is surprising.

quite a textbook game in the end, orange marched on at his pace, blue never looked threatening while red was comfortably in the economic region most of the times.

orange won with just the settlements, which is a mighty feat in a 15 point game, and had a couple of sicpunkts to grab the cake.

over to you harsha.

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