So after my teaching session on Tuesday, we had ourselves a game of Pax Pamir 2nd in TTS
This is my first synchronous actual multiplayer
Four players.
What I should have expected is that I kept having to explain details and that people were overlooking so many possibilities that I had to spent the first half hour to hour helping along with ideas for moves. This makes my usual sneakily quiet strategies harder.
First dominance check went to Blue because Blue got that Herat card that can create new spies and so Blue had the most pieces in play when no faction was dominant.
Second dominance check, Afghanistan was dominant and so that was shared between White (me) and Orange who both had the same influence with Black coming in third.
Right after that first Black than White changed their loyalty to the British Empire and White became the ruler of Punjab. There was a bit of a scary moment when Black bought the event that lets a player remove all tribes and armies in a region and the others urged Black to raze Punjab. But they went for Kabul instead decimating Orange’s court. As Orange was quite leveraged they lost a lot of cards on their turn.
We had to take a break playing. If I could have got a dominance check in the market by my next turn, I could have ended the game–I am rich I could have easily bought it and a present to gain the most influence and would have been in the lead with enough points 9 points over 4. But Orange declined to take anything from the market after I announced the possibility in an attempt to finish the game. We’ll continue the game Sunday afternoon. One of the good things about TTS is the ability to save.