Hi,
I'd like to ask you for some advice for this last game I played. It really got me thinking and is one of the most fun games I played.
Finally I've lost by 1 point. Both me and my opponent admitted, we had no idea how to play this ideally because of the
RPS-like situation on that board.
Here's the log.
My coments:
Supply: Golem, Governor, Hunting Party, Moneylender, Nobles, Potion, Remake, Scheme, Tactician, Worker's Village, and Young Witch ( Embargo♦ )
The board has some really interesting strategies. Govenor, Hunting Party and Tactician are some really strong $5, Young Witch is a really good $4 with a really bad bane.
Then there's Nobles for some extra points and added flexibility and Scheme for supporting each strategy.
He openend Young Witch and I had a 2/5 start. I don't know if that's right, but thought that Govenor is bad against Young Witch and Hunting Party the better choice. But if go for Hunting Party I need many of them and then I have fear of Embargo. So I took the Embargo and he took Scheme. With him opening Young Witch I decided to open Remake and delay my strategy planning.
In turn 3 he had $5 and took Govenor and I had a Embargo in hand and $5 too. So I decided to embargo his Govenor and take the Hunting Party now. I knew he wouldn't buy more now and he would give me more Silver. With one added Gold I could build up a good Hunting Party deck.
In turn 4 we both picked up a Embargo.
In turn 5 I picked up my second Hunting Party and he bought a Tactician in turn 6 and embargoed my Hunting Parties.
I embargoed the Tactician immediately and bought a Young Witch. You see the action-reaction?
I turn 8 he picked up the first Nobles and I my first Gold.
Now it was a back and forth with him being in the lead (more Nobles and Provinces, but I was able to catch up.
In turn 19 with 2 Provinces left he buyed Double-Duchy for a 3-point lead and put Nobles, Scheme and a Tactician back.
So I decided to break PPR, as I was pretty sure he couldn' buy a Province next turn. I buyed Province and Estate for a 4-point-lead.
He couldn't buy it and played the Tactician. But I couldn't too and buyed another Estate. His Tactician turn worked out perfectly for exactly $8, the last Province and a 1-point-lead win.
My questions:
How would you have opened with 2/5 after his YW/Scheme opening? Would you have directly bought Govenor/Hunting Party or a Tactician? Was my Remake the wrong decision?
After my Hunting Parties got embargoed I switched to Young Witch. Would you have kept buying Hunting Parties beside getting the Curses because of my Remake?