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Kevin Wilson (Guild) Congratulations to Bill & Cary. I really like this game and wish I had more time to play it face-to-face. I like PBM definitely works but FTF is how this game should be played. Sometimes you need to see the whites of the other guy’s eyes!!
I’m still not sure what Ward was doing that last turn. I thought we had an agreement I was going to drop in and defend Tuek’s. I had the cash, the troops and a card or two to make a go of it. Maybe you misunderstood. I’m looking forward to your comments to see if there is any light shed on the situation.
I was concerned the BT would win again. I think this is the first time I’ve played with the BT present that they didn’t win with the 35 spice objective. I could be wrong but it seems far too easy of a way for them to win. I was working this one, as I usually do when playing the Guild, for the default win on 15. I still get a bit confused on the alliance shared wins and do think an alliance should have to have more than the normal 3 strongholds to win or their should be a caveat that if an alliance wins with 3 srtongholds, one member of the alliance can’t hold all 3. Regardless, I love this game. I will play every time Chris runs one and I’ll hope to get my share of wins.
Good game. Congrats to Bill and Cary again. I’ll try harder next time.
Paul Bolduc (Bene Tleilazu) With an ally like the Harkonnen, who needs enemies? I had a pretty good shot at winning it on Turn 16. I finally had the requisite spice and had but to prevent a stronghold win by another player or alliance. Failing that, the H/G/BT had the spice, the traitors, and the treachery cards to perhaps gain a stronghold victory ourselves. Then H played a Karama to bleed me down to the minimum spice, which handicapped my purchase of cards in Turn 16 and left me vulnerable to a BG played worthless/Karama. That didn't happen -- indeed the BG had been very quiet for a long time. Then H & G got their attacks crossed and cost us a shot at taking Arakeen and foiling A/E.
Bill Scharf (Emperor) Well, I can't say I really won this game....it was actually miscommunication within an opposing faction that gave us any chance at winning at all. But hey I'll take it....miscommunication in mail games can happen a lot more than in FTF games...it just worked out in my favor this time. Thanks to my Atredies team member....without whose game long support and behind the scenes skullduggery I wouldn't have had a chance.
Ward Narhi (Harkonnens) I'll be the first to admit that I am not all that good at Dune. The last turn, Kevin sent me an email and told me to move my forces to Tuek's Sietch. Then, he tried to move there himself so obviously there was some miscommunication on our part. Drat! I had great traitors but never seemed to be in position to use them even though I tried picking fights with people who I had their leaders.