Lotoreo 4: Jdaki: 2
Thanks for the games Lotoreo, and I'm still amazed to have seen the elusive Walled Village again!
Game logs:
1
http://dom.retrobox.eu/?/20130813/log.507c2cbf0cf28ed55d9d7eee.1376407540011.txt Lotoreo wins easily 45:12, I underestimate Apothecary as usual and stall on a terrible village-bridge engine with hardly any draw.
2
http://dom.retrobox.eu/?/20130813/log.507c2cbf0cf28ed55d9d7eee.1376408224573.txtAfter half a dozen restarts to get me to first player its a startingly fast game despite familiar which I win on 3 pile 1: -2
3
http://dom.retrobox.eu/?/20130813/log.507c2cbf0cf28ed55d9d7eee.1376408927465.txtA much more long winded game with Witch and the aforementioned Walled vilalge which I end up buying a couple despite myself. A moderately focused BM approach wins it for me in the end 34: 24
4
http://dom.retrobox.eu/?/20130813/log.507c2cbf0cf28ed55d9d7eee.1376409553381.txtNot a lot going on in this Kingdom I don't think, but Lotoreo finds the optimum combination and hits it first time with his Haggler just giving him many more stables than me and despite some half hearted duchy dancing I get crushed and resign at 45:29
5
http://dom.retrobox.eu/?/20130813/log.507c2cbf0cf28ed55d9d7eee.1376410091012.txtAll important at 2:2, this appears to me at first a fairly quiet board without any big engine. I go JoaT he goes for treasuries and trashes using counterfeit. Eventually he gets down to basically only treasuries and is much more reliable than me as we head into greening. he breaks ppr but my luck is crap and I lose 30:21
This game is notable because half way through the game as I start to see how effective he is vs me, I realise there was Trader and Feodum and I kick myself hard.
6
http://dom.retrobox.eu/?/20130813/log.507c2cbf0cf28ed55d9d7eee.1376410900282.txtThe last chance for me and fairly desperate I somehow read Workers village as a combination of walled village and mining village and convince myself there is no +buy on the board and commit to a simple Vault -BM and use my 1st player advantage. As it turns out Lotoreo develops a lovely engine but doesn't need the +buy anyway and upgrades his way to provinces via Bank. I don't quite get the draws necessary- the single marauder played against me manages to slow me enough- I did not think it could slow me so much so that I only get 4 provinces in 16 turns and I lose 28:27
Once again well played Lotoreo.