by robinz
Robman wrote:
If I lose the position of starting player to the opponent to my left, then I'm going last...
This comment (and the fact that no-one else has yet picked up on it) makes me wonder if we've been playing wrong. We've always taken the ship track as giving the player order for all players - so the player who has played most ships (before that turn) plays first, then the one who has played second-most, and so on (with ties broken by being on top, ie. having played the most recent ship). The poster, on the other hand, appears to be choosing just the start player based on the ship track, and then going clockwise from there. Are we playing wrong?
(I could go downstairs, find the game and check the rulebook, I suppose, but asking on here will lead to more fun, as well as save me leaving the sofa ;))
Good strategy discussion, by the way. I usually do terribly at this game, but managed to win last night's 4-player game, and as I get better I find myself agreeing with those saying that finding ways to get several actions in 1 turn is the way to go. (But ultimately probably the player who fills more of their board than the others will win - it's finding the most efficient way to do this that is the challenge.)
