Portuguese Water Dog

Turn 8 Actions through End of Game Statements

Players

Player

Company Name/Color

Ducats

Ships

Colonists

Additional Actions

Expedition Cards

Brad Martin Da Gama Trading Co/Blue 1 1 2 2 Modified Harvest/2/Tiger, Progress by Ducats/1/Tiger, Enhanced Found Colony/3/Palm, Modified Harvest/1/Fish
Chris Geggus GEGS/Yellow 24 0 0 Enhanced Found Colony/2/Fish, Ships/1/Shell
Jack McHugh A&P/Red 9 1 3

Player in bold is the first player. GEGS is Goan European Grant Scheme. A&P is American Pickers

Turn 7

Actions

Da Gama Trading Company attempts to found Madras. He has 2 colonists and draws 2 more (deck is reshuffled after first draw), plays Enhanced Found Colony to draw 1 more, plays Colonists to gain 3 more colonists and uses 5 colonists to succeed. Takes the ginger/cinnamon colony with one of each.

GEGS uses 4 ships, 2 ginger, cinnamon, and pepper to advance shipbuilding to level 5. Gains Ships/1/Shell card.

A&P attempts to found Calicut, starting with 2 colonists and drawing 6 more. Attempt fails, gains 1 colonist card.

Da Gama Trading Company uses the Ships tile to gain a ship, the Spice tile to gain cloves in Quillon, and takes 3 Expedition cards (Progress by Ducats/1/Tiger, Enhanced Found Colony/3/Palm, Progress by Spice/3/Shell).

GEGS attempts to found Calicut, starting with 2 colonists, drawing 6 more, and using 4 colonist cards, is successful. He takes ginger and nutmeg.

A&P uses Espionage to advance to level 5 in shipbuilding, then attempts to found Calicut, starting with 2 colonists and drawing 4 more. Attempt fails, 1 colonist card gained.

Da Gama Trading Company uses Progress by Spice/3/Shell card to use cloves, ginger, and cinnamon to advance Colonization to level 3, gaining an additional action.

GEGS collects taxes, gaining 12 ducats, plus plays the Sell/2/Tiger Expedition card, selling cloves, ginger, and nutmeg for 9 more ducats.

A&P attempts to colonize Calicut, starting with 2 colonists, and drawing 4 more. Attempt fails, 1 colonist card gained.

Da Gama Trading Company uses an additional action to harvest pepper on the pepper plantation, cloves on Quillon, nutmeg on Cochin, and ginger on Madras.

Da Gama Trading Company uses an additional action, plays Progress by Spice/1/Statue, and uses pepper, cloves, and nutmeg to advance Harvest to level 4, gaining Modified Harvest/1/Fish

Victory Points

Player

Da Gama Trading Company

Goan European Grant Scheme

American Pickers

Advances

25 23 16

Colonies

6 10 6

Expedition Cards

5 2 0

Money

0 3 0

Single Plantations

0

2 0

Duty

0 0 0

Missions

3 0 0

Total

39 40 22

Notes

Congratulations to Chris on his victory.

Player Boards

End of Game Statements

Da Gama Trading Company Thanks for GMing that Chris and congratulations to Chris. I was hoping for a Tiger or Palm on my last expedition card, but didn’t realise that it would prove crucial, as I had little idea of the scores.

GEGS I do love Goa as a game and playing by mail this time around certainly racked up the tension. I was surprised to win - I really thought Brad had it. A classic Euro. Many thanks to Chris for putting up with the vagaries of all 3 of us as we forgot orders, jumped the gun and misplayed a number of times. All part of the fun!

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