So I recently played the following kingdom:
Colony/
Platinum and Shelters were included. For the first game (My family plays every kingdom twice) we mostly went for
Forager and Prosperity stuff. I crushed them, and since I felt bad, the second time I tried something that was talked about when we started but nobody tried: using the
Rats self-gaining ability to enable a
Vineyard strategy. I waited to buy
Potions until others started greening, so as to focus on getting my actions until then. I surprisingly hit
fairly often, and as such got
Rogues, to dig more actions out of the trash (e.g. Hermit), and
Vaults, to make use of the many, many
Rats as
Coppers. Somehow managed to buy a
Grand_Market. Even got a couple
Platinums and a
Province! Ended up one action short for each
Vineyard to be worth 7
(20 actions in deck). Ended up skipping over
Gold entirely. Ended up with 7
Vineyards, one
Province, and I think one
Estate, for a grand total of 49
. I lost, of course, but the question is, is this a viable strategy elsewhere?