For whatever reason, the four of us (excluding Princess NotCool, AKA, Mrs. G) who played TI last time, all had this romantic notion that we would have a great time playing it again.

For me it was the white whale. I was bound and determined to make it through this damned game, whether we enjoyed it or not.

So, did we enjoy it? I’m not sure. Did we finish it? Almost. Z thinks Red5 was headed for a win, but I had managed to Diplomacy Markus into the boredom zone, and he was breaking off… which could have led me to Mecatol Rex, which my Secret Objective was all about.

Here’s the little cold war going on with my forced Diplomatic buddy Markus:

He had skeezed his way into a pair of planets due to my really dumb reading of the Diplomacy card. My masterstroke… smashed! I was such a gleeful bastard about it too.

Here’s all we had to show for our troubles.

Z was the Nerds at 3, Markus the tuwtles at 4, I was the cyborg bastards at 5, and Red5 the… umm… I can’t even remember what those are. We’ll call the the cheeyits at seeyix.

Anyway, I’m waiting another 5 months for the trois de gras.

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For whatever reason, the four of us (excluding Princess NotCool, AKA, Mrs. G) who played TI last time<\/a>, all had this romantic notion that we would have a great time playing it again.<\/p>\n

For me it was the white whale. I was bound and determined to make it through this damned game, whether we enjoyed it or not.<\/p>\n

So, did we enjoy it? I’m not sure. Did we finish it? Almost. Z thinks Red5 was headed for a win, but I had managed to Diplomacy Markus into the boredom zone, and he was breaking off… which could have led me to Mecatol Rex, which my Secret Objective was all about.<\/p>\n

Here’s the little cold war going on with my forced Diplomatic buddy Markus:<\/p>\n

<\/a><\/p>\n

He had skeezed his way into a pair of planets due to my really dumb reading of the Diplomacy card. My masterstroke… smashed! I was such a gleeful bastard about it too.<\/p>\n

Here’s all we had to show for our troubles.<\/p>\n

<\/a><\/p>\n

Z was the Nerds at 3, Markus the tuwtles at 4, I was the cyborg bastards at 5, and Red5 the… umm… I can’t even remember what those are. We’ll call the the cheeyits at seeyix.<\/p>\n

Anyway, I’m waiting another 5 months for the trois de gras.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":null,"protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-analoggin-it","category-twilight-imperium"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bunkerguts.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bunkerguts.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bunkerguts.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bunkerguts.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bunkerguts.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=141"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bunkerguts.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bunkerguts.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bunkerguts.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bunkerguts.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}