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Dominion General Discussion / Re: Mono-bishop implementation

« on: August 31, 2011, 09:09:26 pm »

[q]Turn 21... you buy a gold with a single province left....[/q]
I knew I was about to reshuffle and I wanted to maximize my chances of being the first one to hit 8 and by the last province.  I figured I was behind by enough that buying a Duchy wouldn't help, and given how much I lost by, it seems like that decision is vindicated.

Turn 22 is pretty terrible though. My thinking was that I didn't want to eat a gold because then I wouldn't be able to afford Duchy, but I should have sucked it up and bought an Estate.  I could have gained 5 point instead of 2, in a situation where the Gold was certainly not going to come around again.

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Game Reports / How lucky did I get?

« on: August 31, 2011, 08:01:40 pm »

In this game I tried to eschew the typical boring luckfest that is Silver-Tournament-Tournament-Tournament-Gold-Province, Hey-I-Win-Fucking-Stupid-Dominion, by using Baron to ramp to a fast King's Court, then back-filling with Tournaments after disrupting with Torturer.  Was my strategy correct, or was did I just end up on the right side of a high-variance play (lol@turn 10kckc)?
http://dominion.isotropic.org/gamelog/201108/30/game-20110830-190807-2cde5482.html

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Dominion General Discussion / Re: Mono-bishop implementation

« on: August 31, 2011, 07:52:46 pm »

Well, I'm having trouble digging up games of mono-Bishop, but here's a game where my opponent went very close to mono-Bishop and it seemed like a really strong strategy:
http://councilroom.com/game?game_id=game-20110624-125028-7309d43c.html
That may simply have been a function of it being a really good counter to my Baron open however.

If my Masquerade in the earlier posted game had been, say, a Smithy instead, would I have still won?  I've never used the simulator.  What does it say about Bishop-only strategies?

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Dominion General Discussion / Mono-bishop implementation

« on: August 31, 2011, 07:35:17 pm »

Assuming a Province game with no other interesting cards -- i.e, pretend it's Bishop, treasure, and green -- and your plan is to ride Bishop the whole game, what's the optimal strategy?  For instance, are you limiting how many bishops you put in as a percentage of you deck, or do you always just buy Bishop on $4 or $5 every time, with the idea that you'll trash them to each other?  Do you ever buy Gold when $8 is available?  Assuming you generally Bishop green before anything else, when might you deviate to trash a Bishop or a coin instead?

This is an example game where my opponent went all-bishop and lost:
http://dominion.isotropic.org/gamelog/201108/30/game-20110830-160958-5ab49dea.html

I've had other games where my opponent went all Bishop, and won soundly.  And I honestly couldn't tell you what the key difference was between the two games.

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Game Reports / Game Analysis: opening Watchtower / Horse Traders

« on: July 08, 2011, 08:16:47 pm »

Not sure if this is the right place to post this.  I want to posts games not for brags or LOLs, but to analyze the decisions made.  I'll probably post one a day or thereabouts.

So.... What do you guys think of my line?

http://dominion.isotropic.org/gamelog/201107/08/game-20110708-095011-768e29ea.html

I feel like I'm all over the place here. At first I was just trying to defend myself from getting monte'd out, but then sort of switched into a duke strategy, which I basically never do and thus have no experience with. I'm told Horse Traders is by far the best card to go Duke with though.

Him activating Trade Routes really hard forced me to react and load up on terminals way more than I would have liked.

Still, despite winning, I feel like there's some subset of what I did that I actually should have done.

Thoughts?