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Game Reports / Can you do better than BM on this board?
« on: June 27, 2012, 03:59:37 am »
Here's the kingdom: Cache, Develop, Lookout, Market, Smugglers, Trade Route, Upgrade, Village, Wishing Well, and Worker's Village
http://dominion.isotropic.org/gamelog/201206/27/game-20120627-002015-b423349d.html
I won playing straight BM. It's a weak board, no doubt, but I'm curious to see in anyone can come up with something better. I tested several BM + X strategies in the simulator--BMU + smugglers, BMU + market, BMU + upgrade, BMU + market + upgrade, all tested with a few different buy conditions--but none beat BMU + Cache set to buy duchies a little earlier. Hardly an exhaustive test, but I hit some of the obvious contenders.
Maybe there's an engine here somewhere, but I'm skeptical. Weak trashing and cantrips don't give you a lot to work with. Maybe you can eke something out with wishing wells?
http://dominion.isotropic.org/gamelog/201206/27/game-20120627-002015-b423349d.html
I won playing straight BM. It's a weak board, no doubt, but I'm curious to see in anyone can come up with something better. I tested several BM + X strategies in the simulator--BMU + smugglers, BMU + market, BMU + upgrade, BMU + market + upgrade, all tested with a few different buy conditions--but none beat BMU + Cache set to buy duchies a little earlier. Hardly an exhaustive test, but I hit some of the obvious contenders.
Maybe there's an engine here somewhere, but I'm skeptical. Weak trashing and cantrips don't give you a lot to work with. Maybe you can eke something out with wishing wells?