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Dominion => Game Reports => Topic started by: Kirian on March 18, 2014, 10:51:49 am

Title: Maybe just hitting back is the best idea.
Post by: Kirian on March 18, 2014, 10:51:49 am

http://www.gokosalvager.com/static/logprettifier.html?/20140318/log.50635cc651c3843e7939ece8.1395153867887.txt

So a 5/2 start on a Swindler board always sucks.  I end up opening Poor House/Swindler.  My opponent opens Double-Swindler, and that's followed by this:

Delta-Alpha-Theta-Theta-Iota: turn 3
Delta-Alpha-Theta-Theta-Iota   plays Swindler
Kirian   trashes Swindler
Kirian   gains Silver

Kirian: "/sigh" in chat.

But hey, you know what, there are plenty of useful villages on this board, and Plaza/Poor House was already looking good.  I buy Swindlers on my next three turns, while my opponent doesn't grab any more.  And on T8:

Kirian   plays Swindler
Delta-Alpha-Theta-Theta-Iota   trashes Copper
Delta-Alpha-Theta-Theta-Iota   gains Curse
Kirian   plays Swindler
Delta-Alpha-Theta-Theta-Iota   trashes Gold
Delta-Alpha-Theta-Theta-Iota   gains Farmland

So as the title says... sometimes the best defense to an early bad attack is just to hit back harder.

Title: Re: Maybe just hitting back is the best idea.
Post by: amalloy on March 18, 2014, 02:51:20 pm

I was sure you meant hitting the Back button on your browser, as the only way to recover from such a terrible start. Sometimes I feel that way too.