You were going to be playing 2-3 Pirate Ships per turn, with Scrying Pools ensuring that a Gold or Silver is on top at least once. It wouldn't take that long for you to Province every turn while he'd be praying to be able to afford a Duchy.
Have we actually found a spot where you would resign and i wouldn't??
Haha, I don't think I'd ever get into this spot; I once
tried ignoring Scrying Pool in favor of a BM approach, it didn't work out, so I'm not likely to do that ever again
I'm not sure that nopawns is really going to be playing 2-3 Pirates per turn. He still has 8 non-actions and no way to trash them. Seems like he'll need more than 4 Scrying Pools to pull it off, and there's no +buy.
Yeah, but if he gets the rest of the Farming Villages with his Workshops (which I'd have done before getting more than one, maybe two Pirate Ships) and two or so more Scrying Pools, he should be drawing large chunks of his deck each turn.
His opponent already has 5 Silver, 2 Gold, 1 Harem, plus a Soothsayer and 2 Beggars, so his premium treasure is going to last for a while even if nopawns uses all his Pirate ships for attack. And no number of Pirate Ships can stop a horde of Beggars from picking up Duchies. Seems like nopawns is going to have to stop his opponent before he gets two more Provinces or plan to make up the difference in Harems.
I think the Beggars are terrible for him, actually. Gaining two Silvers, the best one of which is likely going to be trashed, isn't a great compensation for playing with a 4-card hand.
In addition to his decent but not great amount of treasure, he has 5 "dead" cards that will hurt him alot w.r.t. getting to Provinces: 2 Beggars, a Soothsayer (which b.c. of Hermit helps you more than it hurts you), a Workshop(?) and a Pirate Ship(?? this one also helps you a ton).
Seems like nopawns is going to have to stop his opponent before he gets two more Provinces or plan to make up the difference in Harems.
Yes, and i think he will have very little trouble doing so. His opponent might be able to get a 3rd Province relatively quickly, but a 4th will be quite difficult already, and once he starts buying Duchies and/or playing his Beggars he is just done: his money variance will start decreasing so rapidly that he will never get to 8 again.