Thanks for the game Johannes! It's very intimidating knowing that your opponent will play with such a high accuracy, and if you make 1 or 2 mistakes you will just lose. I look forward to the next few games in your series and hope they are great matches too!
@Pistol_Star
Жыл бұрын
Thanks to you too, Sam! I have very much enjoyed our game. It's true what you say, because I knew you would play with a very high accuracy yourself and you did and definitely hit a higher accuracy than myself. You punished my 2 mistakes/blunders in B1 and C1 very well and that was, what eventually decided the game in your favor. You've just made less mistakes overall. I am glad you won it eventually, because it was well deserved!
@Pistol_Star
Жыл бұрын
My apologies for the ugly orange filter over the video! I forgot to disable the filter before the video began. I will make sure to not forget that again.
@joshthefunkdoc
Жыл бұрын
Wow, congratulations to Sam - not many people can say they've gotten a win over the host here! Also respect for posting your losses, some folks in the video games i follow are notorious for never doing that haha
@Pistol_Star
Жыл бұрын
If you are interested in becoming a guest challenger in a future video, please let me know!
@rilesw7576
Жыл бұрын
Hey Pistol, Why was it so important for you to take the town hall in Phase C3? Doesn't seem like it really helps you that much and it doesn't block him at all from building his city as he already used the town hall. You probably could've waited until a bit later in the Phase, especially since he didn't have the dice to grab it. Also, figured he was more inclined to take the Watchtower at 3 over the town hall at 4 for his city. Even if he did end up taking the town hall, that would take up an action from him which would be better spent on his engine + he could only use with a 6. Wouldn't a more direct focus on Animals be better at that point, by getting the pigs at 6? And possibly getting the bank + pigs in the middle. (That might be way too expensive though) Or even just taking two workers? Especially since you are spending a worker, you have much better options for finishing the phase out if you had 3 workers. I guess I understand the city is important to finish, just wondering if a different approach may have been better at that point. Would you also say, you'd rather take the townhall C2 instead of selling goods and taking cows? As always great commentary, learned so much from watching your games!
@Pistol_Star
Жыл бұрын
Thank you for your kind words. You've got some very interesting points! I agree with you, that Sam wants the Watchtower more than the Town Hall. At this point in C2 though, it's all about these black market cows, as there aren't similarly strong tiles waiting in the black market. They are much cheaper for both of us compared to the cows on 3, especially concerning that the other most important tiles lie on 3 and 4 as well. We both have 2 mines, so we don't mind ending up on 0 Silverlings. By buying the cows now, we kind of force Sam to grab the cows on 3 for 1 worker, which is nice for us. Especially because the 3 cows are quite a weak tile for Sam and it should end his turn on 0 Workers. Your idea on waiting with the Town Hall is very strong. Well spotted! Especially because it allows us to place our cows for free on the 5 as well. That makes it so much stronger to wait. Then we could simply take 2 workers and have 3 workers and 2 storage spaces open. The average cost for grabbing the Town Hall is 0.97 workers for the upcoming dice roll. Next turn we would be assured to get both the Town Hall and the market for a maximum of 3 workers and an average cost of 1.94 workers (more on these kinds of important probabilities in one of the upcoming 2 videos). Going for both the pigs I think is too expensive. It takes up too many actions and workers, but the tiles are great. The thing is, we would actually not benefit much at all from it though, because with this play we pretty much secure ourselves being blocked from either buildings or animals in E. Sam is a way too strong opponent to not block us in the end. The Town Hall itself is still a bit of a contested building, as it's the 2nd strongest building in the game. Sam can actually use the Town Hall quite well, because of his castle. It adds a whole extra number for his castle placement and doesn't cost much tempo. You want to often use your castle as a Town Hall ability, so he can either place the Town Hall to place the Castle or place the Castle to place the Town Hall. The issue for us, is, that him blocking our Town Hall is way more efficient than us blocking his Watchtower, as the Town Hall is massively stronger at this point. For us, the Town Hall is a fantastic tile, because we have so many placement options for it and it greatly helps us with our central city + we get to safely place our ship later down the road, as we only have 2 rounds left to place a perfect number 1 and we want more goods to merge to get the most out of our ship, while also denying Sam a great ship placement after us. Thus we want to wait with our ship placement anyways. So placing the Town Hall to place the cows on 5 was really bad imho. I should have been way more patient at this point. But I've made the mistake to place the Town Hall right away and end up on 0 workers + only placing the cows, which had 1+5 placement options anyways. Not a great turn by myself to say it very gently :) We later had to overpay by 2 workers for this mistake by rolling double 5s in C5. On average we should end up on probably overpaying like 1 worker or so. My thinking at that time was, that I wanted to free up storage space to be able to cheaper take the market. The market is also located on a 1, just like my ship placement and one of the 2 cow placements, which makes it so much more expensive for me to place ship, place cows and take market. He can on his turn in C3 place his cows on the 5 with the added bonus of connecting his castle to get a 4 joker and then grab the Cows with the 2. Yes, this ends him up on 0 workers, but he got his cow placement for free and got a 4 joker on top of that to potentially grab anything he wants in the next turn or use it to eventually place the ship or simply take the castle with him into the next phase, as it's not really blocking his storage space.
@rilesw7576
Жыл бұрын
@@Pistol_Star Appreciate the beefy (pun intended) response. Yeah, the pigs would've been too much. Especially with many discarded pigs. You almost would certainly have to say screw it to the middle city. I hadn't thought about the castle+town hall combo in that situation freeing up another number for himself. I agree with your assessment on the cows. Better to get those in C2, especially with the amount of silverling he had. Great assessment. Looking forward to continuing to watch them. P.S would love to be added on the list of game against.
@Pistol_Star
Жыл бұрын
@@rilesw7576 Good one! :) I've just added you to the list. You are currently 5th in line. It might take quite a while until we get to play our game though. I hope that's fine for you. What's your BGA user name?
@rilesw7576
Жыл бұрын
@@Pistol_Star I'll send you a friend request on BGA
@thamiosmgtow3678
Жыл бұрын
Just a regular stupid question - can a Castle tile take black market tiles as a free action? Or Castle "imitates" only "dice action"? Thx a lot
@BrainchildDnB
Жыл бұрын
Dice actions only
@Pistol_Star
Жыл бұрын
BrainchildDnB is correct. The only ways you can get a black market tile through a castle action is if your free castle action sells goods or places a bank or a warehouse. There is one exception to this rule with yellow tile 13, where taking workers gives you a silverling as well. If you then ended up with 2+ silverlings, you can proceed to buy a tile from the black market. But remember, only 1 buy per turn. I always imagine a single dice roll of my choice as a free action, whenever I place a castle. You can take ANY tile you want from depots 1-6, you can place any tile you have in your storage as a free action as long as you are connected to the needed color spaces, you can sell any good(s) or you can take the "Take workers" action.
@BrainchildDnB
Жыл бұрын
0:25 "On board 7 I always start on the bottom-left", but why?
@NoWondersTV
Жыл бұрын
Ideally we want our starting position to be next to mines and ships, this is the only spot on the board that is next to both :)
@Pistol_Star
Жыл бұрын
That's a good question. I will in future videos explain, why I choose a specific starting position. Ships, mines and to some degree castles are extremely important early on, because they give you a long-term economy and quick early points. It's in my opinion overall more important for the 2nd player to start next to ships, because then the 2nd player does have the option of an extra turn right away by taking/buying and placing a ship to secure more crucial tiles than the 1st player and also to not be too easily blockable by the 1st player's dice roll.
@thamiosmgtow3678
Жыл бұрын
2nd one regular stupid question - can i discard two tiles at 1 turn? Or i can discard only 1 time per move? (btw im hardly workin on game, at now on game session, and learn "see you soon" Post about probabilities).
@anonvideo738
Жыл бұрын
Why would you want to discard 2 tiles at turn one? You can just stuff them in your building queue, and replace them with new tiles if you dont like them.
@thamiosmgtow3678
Жыл бұрын
@@anonvideo738 oh, I mean just at once... Not on number 1 turn.
@anonvideo738
Жыл бұрын
@@thamiosmgtow3678 I dont get it, what exactly do you want to do. You can discard as many tiles as you want. Although thats obviously bad since it means youve taken tiles (and spent actions) taking tiles you dont use. If your building queue is full, and you take 2 tiles from the middle, and also buy a tile from the black market, you can do that, and just have them replace the tiles you already have (or have one new tile replace another new tile)
@Pistol_Star
Жыл бұрын
1 turn = both dice actions and maybe a buy action as well. 1 move = 1 dice action? You can always take or buy new tiles (except buying a tile is restricted to only once per turn). But if your storage of tiles is full (3 tiles in hand), then you first have to discard a tile in your hand to take a or buy a new tile. This is sometimes the best move. Mostly in Phase E, sometimes in Phase D with a ship tile, when both players would end up on 6 ships. It can rarely be the best move to discard multiple tiles in one turn. I even remember a game in which I did multiple such moves in 2 turns in a row against an expert player on board 1. I had nothing important to do anymore and they were 2nd player and still had some big ongoing projects. So I just played ultra destructively and then they even blocked me back, but my project wasn't as important as theirs :D If I had not played as destructive, I would have lost for sure.
@rilesw7576
Жыл бұрын
@@anonvideo738 I disagree with you. I have discarded 2 tiles a good handful of times. It is normally useful in phase D or E when you are trying to block your opponent or trying to get ship lead into E. At times in the game it is a necessary evil.
@sgbcrhbkiddbb
Жыл бұрын
I want to play with you. 😂
@Pistol_Star
Жыл бұрын
Hello. Sure, I will add you to the list of future guest challengers. Right now you are the 5th next. I will play maximum once per week, so our game is scheduled for earliest mid of july. Please add me on Board Game Arena, so we can stay in touch. I'm usually only once per week for ~1 hour on Board Game Arena, so it might take a while until I will be able to reply you there.
@nair2617
Жыл бұрын
55:55 Why do you get blocked from BGA?
@Pistol_Star
Жыл бұрын
It's a program called Cold Turkey Blocker, which blocks me from specific websites/apps/browsers at specific times, as I wish. I can highly recommend this program for anyone who has troubles with any kinds of addiction.
@BackgammonFinesse
9 ай бұрын
watched. 28 out of 67* very good - none, nice - none, average - A, B, E C, bad - D, awful - C
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