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Game Reports / Highway+Merchant Guild is pretty good
« on: March 11, 2015, 02:38:00 am »
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Beggar, Develop, Fishing Village, Lookout, Oasis, Philosopher's Stone, Spice Merchant, Highway, Merchant Guild, Farmlandhttp://gokosalvager.com/static/logprettifier.html?20150310/log.54afc4aee4b084914294ba05.1426053443089.txt
I'd never seen Highway+Merchant Guild before, but I noticed its megaturn potential immediately, and with Lookout and Spice Merchant for trashing and Fishing Village for actions it seemed like a no-brainer. I probably played it pretty sub-optimally (I ended the game with 28 coin tokens), but it was a lot of fun to play and I won by a handsome margin.
I'm curious, though, is there really anything I could have done about the ridiculous number of coin tokens I was generating? The 3 Merchant Guilds were all pretty necessary for the +Buy and it doesn't seem like there was anything else to be spending them on, but it just doesn't seem optimal to end with 28 coin tokens. Not that optimal play matters a whole lot when you have that much of a lead, but I still prefer to play as efficiently as possible. Thoughts?