by Pum_
downstream wrote:
and an important thing to remember that seems to be missing from the original analysis are the fact that green and beige tiles essentially act as extra actions, as do silver in a more indirect way. If someone is focusing on these, they are going to have more actions than you, and will beat you in the race to complete regions.
I agree. IMHO, if you haven't used all your dark green Castle spaces, and several of your beige Building spaces, you are missing out on doing lots of extra stuff, which seems a very strong tactic for winning. Having said that, I'm a bit crap at making use of beige Buildings, and still seem to do well so far. I think that partly illustrates the good balance of CoB, and that there are a variety of paths to doing well.
Focusing on completing smaller regions during the early game seems to me to be very worthwhile.