We're back for another round of the fight for survival.
Animals: Niyi (Mammals), Pat (Arachnids), Isuru (Birds), Junyet (Reptiles), Jacelyn (Amphibian)
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| Briefing everybody about the coming Ice Age. |
Too bad Nick came home late, he was quite interested in the game hehe but coincidentally we always play when he's not free.
That's Niyi doing her classic bird eye's view move. Though ironically she's not the one playing as Birds. Err, Jacelyn wasn't the Birds too.
JC: Apparantly, this actually gives you a great view and a good idea of what's going on =D! I tried it but it didn't work that well for me =P!
Hans came to join us later after studying :P
Even Patrik started doing Niyi's move too. Note that the Bird player was Isuru. He was doing his double migration action again, which needs a lot of calculation I suppose. But to all of us he's suffering from analysis paralysis hehehe.
JC: Isuru really calculates precisely before he migrates or even spawn his birds because he makes sure that the Arachnids and whoever is at the competition area will not be able to wipe him out.
It might take him some time but he was precise in making sure that he gets to conqueer the tundra!!
Scores were quite tight mid-game |
| Picture courtesy of Hans hehehe. |
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By the way, that's his AP look :P
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| My hands are a wee bit too big for the tiny weeny cubes and element disks. |
JC: Trust me, he wasn't posing for this =P! He was actually AP-ing xD!
Hence such a clear shot when normally it would've been blur if he had moved =P!
Somebody is planning something evil at the tile I was on.
JC: Oh yeah! He also adapted to everything! That helped him survive relatively well in the tundra and being able to move 2 spaces meant he was able to maximize his tundra points!! Grrr!!
Birds were already way ahead of others right before Ice Age. Unstoppable!
Needless to say, Isuru won. It was quite an impressive win. +1 victory to birds!
Score board:
Arachnid: 1 victory (JC)
Birds: 1 victory (Isuru)
Post Mortem:
As Reptiles, I should have adapted more elements since I have a free regression action. I rushed domination to grab the cards early on, and by the time I wanted to adapt, all the slots have already been taken.
Rawr. Next time, Isuru. Next time.
Rawr. Next time, Isuru. Next time.
One error spotted. In the photo DSC01880.jpg, there should not be a water element in that intersection of three tundra tiles. :-) Elements on such intersections are always removed.
ReplyDeleteYup we just did a glaciation action there, haven't removed the element disk yet :)
ReplyDeleteBut I have to admit we tend to forget to take that into account when planning.. Someone would point it out, and others would groan because their species there would suddenly become endangered (and extinct most the time because nobody took the migration action)! :P
We made some rather severe mistakes when we played, e.g. we completely bungled the part about removing elements from the board. We thought that we had to place a pawn there to cause one element to be removed from all tundra. The correct rule is we place a pawn there to remove an element, and all other elements are to be removed from tundra. Needless to say, it was rather easy to survive on tundra in those games that we played wrong. :-P embarassing...
ReplyDeleteYeah I think mistakes were unavoidable in first few games.. Because some of the rules were a bit confusing and easily forgotten. Luckily we read your blog post on Dominant Species beforehand so we avoided some mistakes there hehe.
ReplyDeleteI was quite confused about dominance and domination at first, but your concise reference sheet cleared it up pretty well, using different colors to explain those 2 words. Thumbs up for that! :D
Looking forward to play the game with 6 players! We noticed that when there are more players, people are forced to do "competition" action more often as other action spaces would have been blocked/used. I think this part is very thematic - more animals on earth means more competition for resources. :)