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There's almost some merit to starting on the 9 12 pointing to the 9 10, starting brick and the wheat port gets you to first settlement much faster, keeps you from looking as strong before you city and then makes getting to the sheep port easier. On top of two settlements and two cities being strong and the additional wheat, there's a chance to sneak road and army simultaneously for the win. Edit: plus there was no way orange would ever take the 9 10 as their second placement.
There are two lessons in this video: 1. *Never give up.* Keep your cool and focus on how to maximise your opportunities to win. Dylan briefly opened up trading with his OWS partner to keep Blue down so they could both catch up, and risked 7s to buy as many dev cards as possible to create point-scoring opportunities. 2. *Be really careful about giving intel on your hand.* I think in this case you can argue it both ways. Orange said his hand was all knights so Dylan wouldn't assume hes a threat. But it also indicated to Dylan and Blue that there was a higher chance to draw a VP. This creates higher demand on the dev card deck, but also on the materials required, which you produce a bunch of. So does it really decrease your chance of getting robbed that much? It's debatable.
I kind of hope you do another season of this! It has been such a fun watch and definitely pulled me into your channel, but I understand wanting to focus more on in person tournament success
Starting settle, I'd probably pair the 9 4 11 with the 5 8 10. That way orange doesn't get a monster setup, and you likely can just road to 9 10, maybe need to 4:1 though for settle. But no reason Oj would take 9 10 so it would be open there. And I'd point road down maybe thinking to get to the 6 2 long game to maximize the brick with the wood. Those are my thoughts. Bot games I always dislike.
why did you point right with your second settlement? why not point left towards the wheat port? both of your settlements point the same direction and it’s not like anyone was going to take those ports from you. personally, i would have settled on the 11-5-4 and pointed left, like you originally proposed and then raced blue to the 9-10. but yeah, for sure when starting on the 9-10 I think it would have been better to point left
to further my point, had you pointed left with your second settlement, then the road building you pulled would have gotten you onto both the sheep port and the wheat port, because you would have been one road away from each.
I’m not sure that the 9-10 was the strongest position, tbh. Being on that desert is killer for value, working from 5 tiles to start instead of 4. Then all the time you’re robbed you’re down to 3 tiles. something important to consider: your pick of the 9-10 was on the second to last position. Orange then hd the last pick. What are the odds that orange, who was starting on nothing but ore and wheat would pick another ore wheat position? … on a desert tile. I think there’s no chance they pick that spot. and if they do, they lose. arguably, that 9-10 was yours for the taking with an expansion if you start on the 11-5-4 to have the road and settlement resources to take it. but then i dont have a good answer for how you get wheat besides steals and trades.
Got super lucky with the VPs and steals at the end. A win is a win, but I feel like there were some lessons to be learned from this game, because rarely will a 10 roll this often when you’re double citied on a 10-ore. Same with pulling 4 VPs But still an awesome match to watch, congrats on the comeback!
16:45 >> rolls resources on every turn -_- >> rolls one seven "never lucky" Has to get 4 straight VPs and get 3 out of the 4 numbers they're on to be the top rolls in order to reluctantly admit they got even the slightest bit lucky Catan "pro" is someone who can gaslight people so hard they convince themselves they aren't winning. So often it's "omg you blocked me and I lost, that was such a bad play" when in reality if you hadn't been blocked you would've won. The narcissism was kind of entertaining at first but it's getting ridiculous
Like it or not, it helps him maintain that 39% win rate. If you can convince your opponents that you're being tortured the whole game, you win that often. The audience is gaslit at the same time as a byproduct
huge part of the game is making yourself not seem threatening. He’s just weighing the threats of the game. When he’s in a monster position he admits it, and when he isn’t he makes that clear. He’s top 10 on the leaderboards for a reason, not just luck. This game may have been lucky but he still made the critical decisions to win such as placements and going to the sheep port
He wasn't gaslighting the blocks genuinely did screw him and it was brutal. He got lucky to win this game and more often than not wouldn't win this game. The intelligent part was correctly analysing orange's talk as truthful and therefore recognising that the dev card deck was hot for VPs, Monos etc. But even so, if he doesn't pull them all like he did, it woulda been tough to win this game.
@@jkrummya player with high emotional intelligence who plays and streams (or records) at the same time, should be able to differentiate between talking to the viewers and talking to the opponents. From all the Catan content-creators that I've ever seen, only one is able to do this: jack_usher.
