(http://wiki.dominionstrategy.com/images/3/36/Smithy.jpg) (http://wiki.dominionstrategy.com/index.php/Smithy) (http://wiki.dominionstrategy.com/images/e/e0/Council_Room.jpg) (http://wiki.dominionstrategy.com/index.php/Council Room) (http://wiki.dominionstrategy.com/images/0/0c/Laboratory.jpg) (http://wiki.dominionstrategy.com/index.php/Laboratory) (http://wiki.dominionstrategy.com/images/8/8e/Mine.jpg) (http://wiki.dominionstrategy.com/index.php/Mine) (http://wiki.dominionstrategy.com/images/7/71/Adventurer.jpg) (http://wiki.dominionstrategy.com/index.php/Adventurer)
(http://wiki.dominionstrategy.com/images/2/29/Chapel.jpg) (http://wiki.dominionstrategy.com/index.php/Chapel) (http://wiki.dominionstrategy.com/images/5/5a/Village.jpg) (http://wiki.dominionstrategy.com/index.php/Village) (http://wiki.dominionstrategy.com/images/d/d6/Woodcutter.jpg) (http://wiki.dominionstrategy.com/index.php/Woodcutter) (http://wiki.dominionstrategy.com/images/5/50/Workshop.jpg) (http://wiki.dominionstrategy.com/index.php/Workshop) (http://wiki.dominionstrategy.com/images/2/2e/Remodel.jpg) (http://wiki.dominionstrategy.com/index.php/Remodel)
Chapel, Village, Woodcutter, Workshop, Remodel, Smithy, Council Room, Laboratory, Mine, Adventurer
Played this one yesterday. I know in the theoretical "first game" engine, there is a workshop, and it's correct to skip it unless there are 3 or more players. But that board doesn't have Chapel, and it seems like Chapel makes a card that adds 4 coins in 1 card kinda good, ish? I bought a single workshop here, and I was wondering if people would agree that 1 workshop is optimal on boards like this, or if I'm crazy.
Even though I didn't totally plan on it, I ended up doing Workshop gains Silver -> Mine the silver into gold -> Remodel the Gold into Province. Which seems kinda good, though I think possibly a strategy that just draws a huge deck, plays a bunch of gold, and buys two Provinces using Woodcutter could also be good (I was using Woodcutter too, to Province/Duchy the same turn as the Remodel thingy.) But anyway, I'm not quite as fascinated by which final engine form you want here, I'm curious about the workshop thing, because I have heard some people say "only get workshop if you're doing X", where X doesn't seem to be here, but it seems to me like you really want to open Workshop/Chapel here.