This was fun.Ferry, Pilgrimage, Advisor, Mining Village, Pirate Ship, Remake, Bandit Camp, Ghost Ship, Giant, Mine, Hireling, NoblesSo this is an interesting board to begin with. There's no +buy, but otherwise the engine components are great. Pilgrimage is a sort of weird pseudo +buy. Also notice the neat interaction of Ferry/Remake.
My opponent was mainly going for a thin engine/BM hybrid deck with lots of Bandit Camps providing ecomony and some other actions, going for Provinces early. I build some more and get a bit behind, and well there isn't a good way to catch up. I go for multi-Giant, but realize that alone is too slow to stop him before he empties the Provinces.
And here it became option to destroy his economy. Just trashing 2 Spoils per turn turned out to be enough to wreck his deck. This is also an example of how the Ferry token can hurt - once I wanted to remake $4-cost into Giant, but my token was on Giant. And my opponent would really have benefitted from Bandit Camp into Gold, but his Ferry token was on Bandit Camp.
Overall, I thought this was a cool board and it's very rare that trashing all the Spoils is a legitimate strategy. Also I love the "screw this" move in my opponent's final turn.
