Roads and Boats

Adam wanted to play a meaty game after disc golf and Jon was the only other person interested. We decided upon Roads & Boats. Surprisingly, it was Jon’s first play of it. He did come prepared though having read the rules and printed out a player aid. We decided on this 3 player map (Atlantis) but did not use it like it was designed (where the desert hexes irrigate and the light green hexes go under water).

Adam was his usual goose-thieving self and took some of Jon’s mine output (an iron and a gold). Fortunately, Adam left me alone during the game. During this game, we were all rock poor. And I did not want to spend any of it building walls which could have been easily torn down (everyone was wood rich). I purposely did not extend towards Adam’s section and did not build any more roads than I needed. When I built my stock market, Adam worked his way down to use it. There was really no point in trying to stop him (lots of wood can tare down walls easily). I was trying my best to speed the game up and end it soon. Unfortunately I could not end it one turn earlier and Adam was able to build some stock certificates. However in the end, we were tied in gold/coins/certificates and I out scored him in wonder points. A close game!

We tried some mini-bridge hands after that. But my brain was used up from all the previous meatiness. Adam tried to teach scoring to us but I was retaining none of it…