A final view of #VirginQueen with a new France player who insisted on prosecuting the war with England while ALSO spurning me, Spain. (He broke off Elisabeth de Valois' marriage to Philip!)

England player was new too

He proceeded to, against all odds, spring deploy to Calais, defeat the English navy, move troops to London, and take it. He had Treachery, so cool play. But he left Paris open.

And apparently he had a deal with the Prot player (veteran player) that he... would not rebel in Paris, lol.

That deal was not honoured

I lost control of the situation pretty quickly. Hawkins, who would have been more useful deployed to Europe and fighting off the French in the North Sea, kept pirating me

I ended up allied to the HRE, and Otts were allied to the Prots. (4-player game) Prot was immediately card rich and with the Ottoman hand too, was fucking me up on every front

Getting Istanbul was a little crazy and should not have worked but it did. Didn't win the game tho. Prots won by something like 11 points, end of turn 3

(You can see that I pre-empted the Catholic League a bit by declaring war on France and going for Paris; an alliance, for me to go to take the French capital and keep it for myself, was off the table. Sadly didn't work)

#wargaming #WarsOfReligion

An anderen Tischen werden - #VirginQueen
- #HereIStand
- #AMostFearfulSacrifice
- #GalacticCruise
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#BochumCon #BrettSpiele #BoardGames #j2s #juegosdemesa

Here's an #introduction to this account

I'm @nauss and this is the account where, I guess, I'll talk about - and maybe post pictures related to - my board game habits

Some games to which I more or less know the rules at this point, in no particular order: #TwilightStruggle, the shorter #TSRedSea, #ImperialStruggle, the excellent #BayonetsAndTomahawks produced by talented locals, #HereIStand, #VirginQueen, #PaxRenaissance, #PaxPamir, #Arcs, maybe #JohnCompany but I'm not certain, and at least the Breaking the Bismarck Barrier scenario of #EmpireOfTheSun (finally, a game with real hexes). I have played several COIN games but the one I like the most is #AndeanAbyss. I love #DominantSpecies. I'm starting to love #Nevsky

Definitely not a tabletop board game but I'm also a big fan of #CivilizationVI, e.g. #Civ6. More hexes!

Interested in playing more games with locals, connecting with other people in town, or playing with other places' locals when I'm out of town. Looking at you, Ontario

I don't use Facebook, Discord, or almost any spyware social media if I can help it - and I only use BoardgameGeek begrudgingly. Happy to be on wargamers.social now, I've been thinking about spinning up a more game-focused account for awhile but it's always been on the backburner 😀

#bgstats im Oktober 2023 - sehr zufrieden, dank BGA. Bei #EinFestFürOdin versuche ich immer noch rauszufinden wie man mehr als 70pkt macht. #BuBu, Ultimate Railroads (immer öfter über 300pkt!), #Azul und #Deus sind Dauerbrenner. Was diesen Monat ausgeflogen ist, ist Lewis & Clark - obwohl ich da Mal wieder Lust drauf hab 😁

Die Partie Elisabeth #VirginQueen und die 2 Partien #ImperialStruggle waren grandios. Ebenso wie Core Worlds ❤️

#brettspiele @brettspiele