Marek Szumny
Poland
Wrocław / Głubczyce
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Again game with me as two players. This time I decided to play more carefully (not as in previous game) and use more stones. Again the score counter was set to 30.
First impression: this way it's a lot longer game. Last time after 20 minutes game ended, now at that moment I earned first points. Is it worse? Definitely not. I haven't noticed when that 45 minutes go away.
Beginning was like cold war, stones were flying on the board, players were moving at rate most one tile per turn. Both creepers had only one ending so there was not so much space to move. As I stated before, green gained 2 points after 20 minutes of play just to lose 1 in the same turn in pool. After 30 minutes of game orange got two flowers (3 points). Then green entered the pool again and lost his one point but he immediately climbed on orange creeper and gained not only 2x3 points for roof of greenhouse on second level but also for forking (3 points) and he opened a way for his stick in next turn. And orange lost his way to gain points for forking before forced forking. That was really a great move for green.
Then it goes crazy! Orange player took advantage of that move and blocked green two times (8 points) and gained 3 points for blue flower. Green pierced orange two times (8 points), one on white flower (2 points), than he went for connecting sticks (10 points!) and another second level on roof of greenhouse (3 points) and then... then the game was over. Green reached 32 points on score counter and won the game. Finish was even quicker than I expected. Orange lost 14:32.
I must definitely play this game with score counter on 50. That would be an interesting game!
I must say again that I'm the publisher of this game but impressions are real (game is free for download, just print & play, so I don't need to promote it by force).
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Posted Wed Nov 11, 2009 8:49 pm