(I really hope she'll never get her own account here, it'll hurt really bad
)
Last night we played
The Castle. None of us really likes it, but we take it out now and then to have a go at it. It was the first game of the siblings I bought before I knew the differences really. I played original
C with an ex girlfriend but
Castle was cheaper so I bought that instead
Anyway, to the game:
It started off pretty well for me, I got to the first two wall tiles by tactics alone - I played a bent road next to a corner so I could get a single point in order to take the first WT for example.
Sara started to build on her house, since that usually generates a lot of points. And for once I let her - I only built two houses I think, and one of those was an one-pointer.
I had a lot of luck with drawing market tiles and could place them next to my already occupied courts. I also could build so that I merged a meaningless tile to
Sara's big court - rendering it pointless for both of us, which hurt her a lot more than me. I concentrated on building a big tower, and it yielded 26 points when it was finished - I also built a smaller 12 poinst worth of unfinished tower because I had that WT.
Since the only thing that needs to be connected are roads,
City actually plays quite differently from both
C and
H&G. You don't have to match tiles, and it takes a while to get adjusted to that kind of thinking. After yesterday's game both me and
Sara agreed that .. well, maybe, after all
City isn't such a crappy game as we have thought for so long. The session was actually quite fun
In the end I won by 5 points: 103 - 98. It was also the first time anyone of us reached over 100 points.
I guess this means we'll play it more from now on!
Edit: typos :
