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Message: <blockquote data-quote="BobProbst" data-source="post: 4680165" data-attributes="member: 13382">I suppose was being intentionally provocative.  Just making an overly broad statement to challenge a position.  I know you're no more averse to winning than I am <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />You're completely right that once you were out of the money in Acquire, your game was done.  But in T&E, you essentially gave up in the last third of the game out of your perceived hopeless position -- yet you ended in a very close third.  You failed to accurately assess your position. Had you applied yourself, you might have won. Honestly, every time I play T&E I'm quite certain that I'm losing but I've come to get comfortable with feeling like that and I plug away at filling out my short colors.  I still stand by the remark that your poor cash position in Acquire was partly because you failed to focus on chains that would merge early.  You over committed your money to strong chains that would not get acquired in the short term and therefore you saw no returns until the end game.  If it helps, I'd say it's analogous to a player in Settlers committing 2 roads to a contested intersection without the prospects to build a settlement there.  You and I know that this is a huge gamble that often gets crushed but to a less experienced player, they don't even know what they did wrong.  They just got "unlucky". It's true that Vince also invested heavily in American but he got "lucky" as primary shareholder when Craig merged Worldwide and Continental.  Even so, Vince fighting for primary holder of Continental was the absolutely right play because those 2 were going to merge faster than American -- whether Craig did it or someone else. Craig ended in a strong second place, mostly as a result of that decision (locking him as primary shareholder of a game finishing company) so I really can't fault him for it.Where you may have seen random game mechanics and ineptitude, I saw strategy and reason (albeit with an imperfect random tile draw mechanism).  You say you see losing as a challenge:  I submit that there are real strategies present in Acquire and games like it -- challenge yourself to master them.  Much like with Settlers</blockquote>

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