First, I think that was a really difficult board to play, and hardly anyone would have played either of our strategies optimally the first time. Looking back, getting to triple province would have been great, but it wasn't really on my mind at the time. Sure, I could have managed my coin tokens better, but $24 seemed so far off. I was definitely thinking about getting the last 2 provinces by cashing in the mining villages, but you never let that happen. The main reason I got the mining villages was because I needed the actions. If I was working toward triple province, I would have needed to get hardly any golds because even when I was buying gold + mining village that was taking about all the money I could produce in one turn, so my coin tokens were already dwindling, not increasing. In my mind, I wanted to bishop 2 golds per turn, and make up my points deficit before you could end it on provinces. I was desperately trying to catch up on points the whole time. I think it could have worked, but I should have tracked your deck better to realize I had less time than I thought. I think you played it well, getting the double province exactly when you did to put it out of reach for me. Also, I think I could have done more with procession but I felt pressure to get the bakers quickly because I knew you were going for them hard. After they were out, I thought procession lost a lot of value because the only thing for 5 I could get was Inn, which wasn't very useful to me. The $4 virtual money cards were more important. But I've always struggled with procession.
