by KernTheGerm
Consider buying an early Hacienda to help a Building strategy play more defensively.- Settle for Quarries while still drawing Plantations
- Build up Plantations faster to increase score of Residence building
- Increase Plantation variety to facilitate Trading/Shipping blockades against other players
- Increase Plantation variety to prevent Trading/Shipping blockades by other players against you
The only way that the Hacienda can "fail" is to draw Plantations better suited to Shipping than Building, in which case you'd have to give up on pure building and pursue a mixed strategy. While mixed strategies generally enable better defensive play, they also require better defensive play to be able to keep up with faster pure strategies.