Back to Tuesday games this week as Crabro had got rid of his cold. Not surprisingly, given how much he likes this game and railway games in general, he arrived with a box full of extra maps for Steam.
We quickly decided to play the intriguing looking Belgium two-player map and absorbed the few extra rules with no trouble (we thought).
To my utter surprise I found myself the winner, which is probably the first time I've beaten Crabro at this kind of game and just to prove it was not a fluke, after lunch I did it again. My pleasure at this was only slightly mitigated by finding out that we had in fact unintentionally ignored one of the rules. Hard to say how much this would have affected the result since both of us were making the same mistake but anyway I'm happy to have even been competitive.
These games having been surprisingly quick to finish we looked for something to finish the day that we could get into fairly fast. Alhambra fitted the bill as we both knew the rules and enjoy the game.
Despite Crabro's seemingly useful strategy of building a large flexible hand of money cards and then going on a multi-buy spending spree, I eventually also won this with a fairly balanced Alhambra and longish wall. Crabro finished third behind "Dirk", the dummy player used to balance two-player games. I'm not sure where Crabro went wrong but he claims that, despite really liking Alhambra, he has never won a game, so at least he is consistent.
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