Post originally by Ralph Mazza at 2004-08-04 07:36:06
Converted from Phorums BB System

Is there a valid chance of The Tuchulcha player winning?

It would seem to me that with 3 players and 8 pieces each that the goal of preventing ANY of the pieces from making it home would be nearly insurmountable even with the extra die rolling power. Does the Tuchulcha player have to rely on the other players continuing to hit each other? If all of the other players agreed to cooperate until at least 1 pawn made it home thereby knocking one of their opponents out of the game before settling things amongst themselves it would seem to make the Tuchulcha position untenable...what am I missing?


Similiarly, the Vecuvia player. While the normal players have the basic backgammon strategy to work with, it would appear that Vecuvia is 100% purely random. Either the die rolls allow you land on the seal spaces, or they don't. Is there really any strategy to Vecuvia deeper than trying to position a pawn 6-8 spaces away from a passage so that eventually the odds of rolling that number lets you move there?