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What opening move do you prefer in Hansa Teutonica with 3, 4, or 5 players?

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As the first player in a 4 or 5 player game, I like to play a merchant (disk) and a trader (cube), one on each road into the action city.

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This seems to be the way it works in our group. – Lance Roberts Jun 23 '11 at 20:39

While contending for the action city is a classic opening move, it by no means is the only way to go. I recently won a 4 player game using the policy of non-competition, and worked on creating as big of a network as possible, as that has the most bonus. In fact, I only gained one additional action the whole game, which balanced out because I didn't waste all those actions contending for the action city.

If you go first, then this question makes some sense, but if you're not first player, the correct opening move will depending both on the other players' actions and their play-style.

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