Sounds good @SciQuest… thanks for the update!
Re: the BGG thread… Don’t worry! I suspect some of the good geek folk were taken more aback by your calling ‘Tigris and Euphrates’, ‘Tigress and Euphrates’ than your (heretical!) comparison of T&E to ‘Catan’.
For my part I’ve never heard the term ‘pathological behavior’ applied to game trees before! Am surprised to find it accepted usage in CS:
http://academiccommons.columbia.edu/catalog/ac:141026
Wild!