I've seen quite a few games on this map and the strats are usually the same. Grab sea, grab centre isle and the statues. That's the big metal boost.
That's exactly what Aprox does. Tip just boils in his corner and builds a ton of land resources while Aprox takes like 4/5 of the map.
At this point I thought Tip was pretty much screwed and probably drunk too, but once Aprox has wasted his fast metal income, Tip gets back into the game.
This game goes from weird to awsome and then... WTF?
See for yourself. This could have been one of my precious Abe GG's but well... see for yourself.