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[lespeutere]

KC and Poor House, how ironic... t13 

[Qvist]

KC and Poor House, how ironic... t13 

Interesting. A mega-turn after 13 turns by a $1 cost card.

[Witherweaver]

Probably depends on the board. I'd say if you got a silver already, that means you probably weren't going for poor houses - or else why would you have gotten the silver?

Right, but I meant, given the bad shuffle luck, is it better to change strategies and be a turn behind his opponent or continue on and likely still be behind with whatever he was going to do.

This is generally the worst possible idea. Playing your opponent's strategy from two turns behind is a great way to lose by two turns, because your deck is going to play out at the same pace as his.

Well, yes, generally.  But could it be better in this specific case?  Or in some specific case.  I could imagine there would be a situation where you made an error and recovering and going for the same strategy your opponent has would actually have a higher chance of winning than any other strategy.  Though maybe actually constructing it is difficult.

[Awaclus]

Probably depends on the board. I'd say if you got a silver already, that means you probably weren't going for poor houses - or else why would you have gotten the silver?

Right, but I meant, given the bad shuffle luck, is it better to change strategies and be a turn behind his opponent or continue on and likely still be behind with whatever he was going to do.

This is generally the worst possible idea. Playing your opponent's strategy from two turns behind is a great way to lose by two turns, because your deck is going to play out at the same pace as his.

Well, yes, generally.  But could it be better in this specific case?  Or in some specific case.  I could imagine there would be a situation where you made an error and recovering and going for the same strategy your opponent has would actually have a higher chance of winning than any other strategy.  Though maybe actually constructing it is difficult.

I'd just go for the most "luck based" strategy if I'm way behind. "This probably won't work but if it does, I win" is better than "This most definitely works, but even if it does, I probably lose".

[SCSN]

SheCantSayNo   plays Swindler
Cat Daddy   reveals Madman
Cat Daddy   trashes Madman
Cat Daddy   gains Copper

[sudgy]

SheCantSayNo   plays Swindler
Cat Daddy   reveals Madman
Cat Daddy   trashes Madman
Cat Daddy   gains Copper

Were the curses already out?

[SCSN]

Yes

[SCSN]

I ignore the Minions while my opponent grabs them all, I get 7 Colonies behind, but then I finally grab the last one...

http://dom.retrobox.eu/?/20130508/log.505d732a51c359e6597efeb8.1367996535540.txt

[sudgy]

This was a while ago, but one time I decided to set up a Golden Deck with Ambassador and Possession on the board.

I know, horrible idea.  I just wanted to try it, I was against an opponent who wasn't as good as me and had never set up the golden deck before.

Anyway, as expected, he started to Ambassador me junk.  I would instead not buy a province and trash the junk he gave me.  Then he started playing multiple Ambassadors...  Enough to the point that he managed to Ambassador me an Ambassador, Possess my hand before I could trash it, and Ambassador my Bishop.  I still won by quite a bit of points, but it was interesting doing it in such hard conditions...

[SCSN]

My opponent double-embargos the Dukes, I don't care...

[florrat]

Although it was against a bot in adventure mode (intrigue, act 2, mission 14), this still felt pretty good:

florrat   plays Swindler
Jeeves   reveals Duchy
Jeeves   trashes Duchy
Jeeves   gains Curse

[GwinnR]

Not really great, but an interesting moment:

3p-game with Grand Market and other powercards. My opponents got to Grand Market early and I had no chance of winning. So I had to 3 pile it for a tied lose. It ended with 10 points (Colony) to 0 point to 0 points.
I hope the opponent with 0 points doesn't hate me now, but I couldn't done more.

[KingZog3]

Not really great, but an interesting moment:

3p-game with Grand Market and other powercards. My opponents got to Grand Market early and I had no chance of winning. So I had to 3 pile it for a tied lose. It ended with 10 points (Colony) to 0 point to 0 points.
I hope the opponent with 0 points doesn't hate me now, but I couldn't done more.

He should have bought an Estate.

[heron]

Not really great, but an interesting moment:

3p-game with Grand Market and other powercards. My opponents got to Grand Market early and I had no chance of winning. So I had to 3 pile it for a tied lose. It ended with 10 points (Colony) to 0 point to 0 points.
I hope the opponent with 0 points doesn't hate me now, but I couldn't done more.

He should have bought an Estate.

Also, why didn't the winning player 3-pile?

[GwinnR]

He should have bought an Estate.

Maybe he should, but he was still building up his deck. But who thinks, that someone 3-piles the game for a lose ;-)

Also, why didn't the winning player 3-pile?

He bought the Colony in his last turn and he didn't have the chance to 3-pile it. It even had the hope, I could 3-pile it and buy an Estate.

[Awaclus]

Scout was actually very useful in a game with no kingdom victory cards.

http://dom.retrobox.eu/?/20130522/log.5168b79fe4b04d562bd1f926.1369220358062.txt

[SCSN]

Warfreak2   plays Minion
Warfreak2   discards: Silver, Chapel
Warfreak2   draws Chapel, Minion, Minion, Necropolis
SheCantSayNo   discards: Potion, Chapel, Minion, Minion, Minion
SheCantSayNo   draws Possession, King's Court, King's Court, Possession

http://dom.retrobox.eu/?/20130522/log.505d732a51c359e6597efeb8.1369260885621.txt

[TWoos]

Warfreak2   plays Minion
Warfreak2   discards: Silver, Chapel
Warfreak2   draws Chapel, Minion, Minion, Necropolis
SheCantSayNo   discards: Potion, Chapel, Minion, Minion, Minion
SheCantSayNo   draws Possession, King's Court, King's Court, Possession

http://dom.retrobox.eu/?/20130522/log.505d732a51c359e6597efeb8.1369260885621.txt

But that's not even all of the story. That happened during the first of three possessed turns.  And you won the game during the fifth possessed turn following this hand.

[Warfreak2]

Being the sucker was the only way I was going to get onto this thread, anyway.

[Warfreak2]

In another game that night, we had a Possession board again and there was a Masquerade play where both of us passed a Masquerade; I managed to steal SheCantSayNo's only Possession in exchange for my last Masquerade a Curse (almost a worse card...), but somehow I was still losing because I wasn't able to play one in the following two turns.

[SCSN]

In another game that night, we had a Possession board again and there was a Masquerade play where both of us passed a Masquerade; I managed to steal SheCantSayNo's only Possession in exchange for my last Masquerade, but somehow I was still losing because I wasn't able to play one in the following two turns.

You actually won the game as it was terminated because something seemed to have happened on your end (connection trouble? computer crash?) and because you were Possessing me, I eventually got the notion that if I didn't do anything, I'd time out. But of course, I couldn't do anything as I was possessed!

http://dom.retrobox.eu/?/20130522/log.505d732a51c359e6597efeb8.1369264343848.txt

So this makes Possession effectively a "you win" card: just play it and then recline for a few minutes in your armchair with a nice drink to celebrate your victory.

[ipofanes]

Someone tell Dougz!

Wait ...

[Warfreak2]

That's odd, I thought timing out was an automatic loss. Or if I possess you, am I making you time out? That would be perverse, to say the least...

Goko has been very unreliable for me over the past 24 hours, I have `ping -t google.com` in a separate window but my internet connection seems ok, maybe there is a particular problem with the route between me and Goko.

[SCSN]

Or if I possess you, am I making you time out? That would be perverse, to say the least...

Yes, that's what appears to be happening.

[Titandrake]

Or if I possess you, am I making you time out? That would be perverse, to say the least...

Yes, that's what appears to be happening.

That bug is understandable, hilarious, and very high priority. Right now I just think it's funny.