by natanya_uk
We usually play as three or four players, and none of us follow a blocking strategy. If any blocks occur they will come about because someone has built a route that you needed, not because they aimed to prevent you from completing.I do remeber playing a two player game a couple of years ago, however, where I did purposely block my opponent. It was possibly the last turn (certainly very late in the game) and he needed to connect Seattle to either Vancouver or Portland, I can't remember which. Anyway, I played to capture the route and prevent him completing a trans-continental route, costing him 43 points and winning me the game.
He doesn't hold it against me. And neither did the success of the move lead to either of us being persuaded to follow the blocking strategy. Well, he doesn't: I have been tempted once or twice but only in extremis :D