Keep it up dandy!

Yeah, it was something. Hopefully not unwatchable though… I felt like there was a lot of fundamental lessons in some of the table’s decisions. More games to come!

@@dandydrew Looking forward to them!

Yeah I can see how some people with a domination or submission fetish would like it depending on which player they identify with but for a person not too much into that shit I could take it or leave it

Dandy Crew is the best! 🎉

Glad you are here. We will keep the content train going. - DD

DandyCrew is amazing ❤

Thank you.I’m trying my best to keep the quality and momentum going! I appreciate the support so much :)

Tell me about it… I had to almost take the mouse from him and do the moves myself a few times! lol

Yeah but blue trolled 1st by representing an op setup with his placement while breaking the board on 2 of the best starting positions.

As mentioned in the video, they both made some fundamental mistakes that caused problems. Like Dylan said, there was a lack of accountability from both of them and for that reason, they will most likely continue to make those mistakes until they accept some responsibility :P

Won the game pretty handedly in the end anyways but just something I thought about when I was looking at the video in the moment.

Yo Jay! Of course the sheep port slams, but it’s not necessary to initiate the race when 2 of players have decided to out their positions. At this point, we will play solid and just let our nature advantages of production, 5 resources, and 3:1 port flexibility work magic. Against very strong opponents, I could see green making a case to plow away the port from us to “save the board”. Better to play solid and let the board implode on itself. 😂 Looks like it worked out well lol

@@dandydrew yeah okay that makes a lot of sense. In tournaments, I see you being plowed to the sheep port because the board works together. But then I would’ve just held and settled there anyways. Seemed too good to pass up!

The problem about 62 was that there is a road in hand for someone to plow you - Experience has shown me that when you give someone the option to plow, they are more incentives to take it… especially lower skilled opponents. So the point was not to risk the road settle on the port when you have a guaranteed port on the 8 4 (which is better anyways). If the value of the 62 is the port than why not just get the 3:1 on the 84 while giving yourself 2 road settles on the 6 wood and sheep port?

@@dandydrew First of all, I don't care about the extra 3:1 port, I care about bumping up my wood production even further. I want as much production as possible when I 'go into the 5-hole' to use my terminology (5-hole: LR needs to built first city, 4-hole: OWS needs to expand). Adding 84, 83 AND 62 makes for high production and strong expansion. Second of all, who'll plow me? Yellow needs the wheat port, someone on a 91011 is way behind and in any case 26 is not appealing enough to not only waste an extra road getting to it, but enter a race with me that has a 1 road head start AND a strong coordinated road with no settlement resources missing. It's others who should fear getting plowed by me, though I'm more interested in strategic expansion than plowing someone for the sake of it.

@@SerbAtheist but if you are getting the 3:1 on the 84 anyways, why don’t you point right and have the additional option of grabbing the sheep port too? You can always road settle on the 6 wood just like we did to up our wood production. Pointing right is just more optimal IF we agree on taking the 84 port as part of the core setup.

@@dandydrew 'but if you are getting the 3:1 on the 84 anyways, why don’t you point right and have the additional option of grabbing the sheep port too?' Because I don't plan to grab the sheep port in the first place. It's literally at the rock bottom of my list of priorities. I'm more of a production oriented player, especially in the early game. I'd sooner grab both 26 and 6 than the sheep port. Albeit, I can see the merit of pointing right to trick the opponents into believing you're chasing the port and have them waste time and resources to plow you out of it, like what green did. My philosophy is that if a port has less than 4pp, and even 4 is iffy, unless I am lacking in critical resources and desperate for a port (and I try to never get into this situation), it might as well not exist. Wasting 6 pieces of material in the early game to get to it is a waste of time, since it takes me 6 trades just to break even compared with 3:1 and even then, I've saved up on 6 sheep, the least valuable material. That's the key advantage of a strong road-based hybrid set up like what you guys had in this game: while everyone else is chasing ports, you're chasing key production squares and can get to them quickly, especially with strong coordinated wood-brick, like here. By the time you secure all the production spots, you're producing a lot of EVERY resource, might not even need a port! And if a 3:1 is included in the package to boot, it all but settles it. Anyway, loved the game, and good discussion.

9411 is a horrible play

Everyone is so caught up with the sheep port! Where is the 3:1 port love? As a general rule, I advocate a good road game to have the 2 initial settle spot + 3 additional spots as a road player’s plan template. Given that we also had momentum on devs or potentially army, we had plenty of options that worked just fine. So we have 634 + 693 settles = 2 points 1) 84 = 3 points 2) 83 =4 points 3) 6 wood = 5 points 4) City 634 = 6 points 5) VP pull = 7 points 6a) LR + Settle for 10 6b) LR + City for 10 6c) LR + 2nd VP for 10 6d) Army + City for 10 6e) Army + 2nd VP for 10 6f) Army + LR for 11 6g) Army + road road settle + 10 You can see if you have a simple frame work for a setup and options, your game plan becomes very clear and simplifies what you actually need. Sure, we could get sheep but but we have so many options there is no stress to take the risk of racing and losing it.

@@dandydrew yeah I guess… I mean I don’t think you were in any danger of losing it if you just DROPPED THE ROAD 😂😂 But I get your overall point. In general I do agree that 3:1 ports are undervalued and really important. And I get the focus on flexibility over the less flexible sheep port here. Thanks for taking the time to write out all the win conditions 😁

You're not wrong, but that was about the only downside, compared to SO MANY advantages.

Yeah! Thank goodness I play better catan than thumbnail creation.

I love your thumbnail style drew! Don’t change it!

Lol To be fair, we played these games at the end of the trip and very late. We really didn’t have time but wanted to do our best to get content for the community. More games coming soon

Dylan is hyperfocused on OWS and making extortion trades. I doubt he would have taken this setup. Then again he has his style that is good for for top 20 so we can hardly criticize him

@@mpetrov2402 It always makes me laugh when people heavily criticize someone like Dylan’s game… he has ALMOST won more tournaments than anyone else in the world - DyLighted is a top 10 player no doubt about it when you consider his track record.

​@@dandydrew There is no criticism let alone heavy criticism. Like I mentioned if his style is good enough for top 20 you can hardly blame him. I just think that he focuses too much on OWS compared to a more balanced game and hence why I doubt he would take this setup without the coaching.

@@catanace1741 Dylan is top 20 easy his skill is without a shadow of a doubt peerless. I just think he overvalues OWS and focuses too much on it. Hence why i think that without the coaching he would not make this setup.

Yeah… life goes on though in the catan world. Good players forget about these kind of bad moments and move on.

It’s a little bit too low production for me and OWS tends to be a one trick pony in a lot of cases… it’s a very good award winning pony but still one trick. Give me high production, all 5 resources, board space, and a 3:1 port any day!

@@dandydrew You and I think alike, I like it. Thanks for the uploads.

shut up

You can always make a case for dice in any game but even if you give the dice a perfect distribution, our setup is still winning in relation to the board.

I have to agree with you on this one. Just not enough production to be viable for yellow and blue. Green had a shot but he needed to work with the board better to build some momentum. Frankly, considering we pulled a mono and 2 vps with the road play, Green didn’t have a chance with that luck against us.