Thank you Guaroz for organizing this tournament. It was a lot of fun playing and I learned a lot about gunboat games that will hopefully help me to improove my playing.
Congratz to Y2kjbk for winning the tournament, and to Didigoose for the 2nd place.
Being abroad for several more days, and on my mobile phone, I ll keep my comments on the last game short.
Last game: I was quite happy how things were going until spring4. I hoped for Rome helping me to eliminate Greece, but he chose to send an army against me and offer peace to Greece while I completely guessed wrong on Greeces probable moves that turn. Some more wrong guessing got me down to 5 SCs at the end of 05.
Shortly after that, a more or less solid defensive line of Egyptian and Greek units formed against Carthago, and I had the choice between waiting and hoping for a 4way draw (where I would have ended 3rd or 4th place), or eliminating Egypt and using those builds to grasp some more SCs from Greece who by then did not have a lot of defense on our common border.
In a normal game, I would have drawn in 09, but here, knowing that victory was out of reach, I also knew that, except if y2kjbk was Greece, I had a realistic shot at getting the second place by stealing some of his SCs before Carthago would win the game ... so I tried ... and missed to reach that goal by 1 SC.