Vowel challenge: U's (medium)

Created by Brotherdan

(all)
State: Public
AI: Prod 2.0 with randomness
Went public on 8/4/2020
Number of attempts: 387
Number of wins: 154
Number of likes: 29
Record holder: Mark in 19 turns on 8/6/2020

Description

A vowel's challenge in the scrabble map. Each player starts with all tiles of a certain vowel.
This is the last and hardest vowel: the U, which follow the very easy A's [https://www.warzone.com/SinglePlayer/Level?ID=1337662] and the fairly easy O's [https://www.warzone.com/SinglePlayer?Level=1288249] and E's [https://www.warzone.com/SinglePlayer/Level?ID=1337666] and the slightly less easy I's [https://www.warzone.com/SinglePlayer/Level?ID=1337705].

U is harder due to the very few starting points, and none on the bottom half of the map. Still extremely doable, but a little more challenging than the others.

To make things slightly more exciting, significant (and increasingly more!) reinforcements will inject spice as game proceeds. Another bit of help comes from airlifts, which AI seems to ignore. Few spy cards are also available for the curious lot.
Enjoy!