D5, adrien vs assemble meFirst game this season. I've had a lot of draws last season, this season I really want to win a few games
. The D league looks stronger than last year looking at my opponents' Iso levels but today we are very near so a win could be possible.
As always, I'm very, very happy for any input regarding those games - thanksGame 1Cellar, Hermit, Menagerie, Watchtower, Remake, Talisman, Band of Misfits, Wharf, Border Village, Grand Market
Provinces / Shelters
assemble me starts, adrien wins
http://www.gokosalvager.com/static/logprettifier.html?20140711/log.50e7525ee4b0b5b74140a6c0.1405103405414.txtFirst board and a great engine board right away. Remake is not the greatest thing ever because of Shelters. I open Hermit/Silver and my plan is to get lots of Border Villages and Wharves. He opens Hermit/Talisman to get extra Menageries. I'm not convinced of Talisman for Menagerie here, Wharf is just SO good. I'm getting a Remake for some Copper trashing (don't really know if it's been worth it.).
I'm winning the Wharf split 6-4 and also have two extra border Villages, he has an extra Menagerie. After drawing my deck I think I want to build for double Province turns and decide to trash two coppers and buy Grand Market + Menagerie. While ending my turn, I saw that it might have been a mistake because there were only two Border Villages and two Menageries left. With Remake it was very easy for him to end it on a win. So, I really screwed up my endgame, I think my deck was better.
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Game 2Forager, Masterpiece, Ironworks, Quarry, Cartographer, Council Room, Duke, Inn, Venture, Hoard
Provinces / Estates
adrien starts, assemble me wins
http://www.gokosalvager.com/static/logprettifier.html?20140711/log.50e7525ee4b0b5b74140a6c0.1405103918474.txtAnother nice board here. Council Room / Big Money is good, and there's also Hoard to support it and maybe Masterpiece. Hoard and Masterpiece should be really nice for Duchy/Duke, too, but I prefer Hoard. You could also build an engine with Forager, Quarry, Council Room and Inn, which is what he does. I really like Alt-VP Slogs and with Hoard it should be quite nice. So he opens Ironworks/Silver and I open Silver/Silver. I'm getting 3/7 on my second shuffle which is great because I can buy my Hoard and start buying Duchies.
He denies me three Duchies and can start to draw some nice potions of his deck, but I'm getting a big points lead. I also have time to stop for a second Hoard as I hit 6$ right before a reshuffle, although I think a Masterpiece would have been much better at that point. But, it doesn't really matter, my lead becomes bigger. He helps me piling Estates and I win convincingly
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Game 3Embargo, Fool's Gold, Watchtower, Spice Merchant, Young Witch, Catacombs, Counterfeit, Journeyman, Royal Seal, Soothsayer, Wharf
Bane: Watchtower
Provinces / Estates
assemble me starts, adrien wins
http://www.gokosalvager.com/static/logprettifier.html?20140711/log.50e7525ee4b0b5b74140a6c0.1405104601858.txtI found this board pretty hard to evaluate. There's Fool's Gold with Spice Merchant (and Whaf, but neither of us had 5/2). There's also Young Witch and Soothsayer which make connecting Fool's Golds harder, but then there's some good draw with Wharf, Journeyman and Catacombs. Watchtower isn't the best bane, you probably want to use it rather the usual way then as a moat, but it also protects against Soothsayer. Counterfeit works well with Fool's Gold and with the extra golds from Soothsayer. The questions are if you want Fool's Gold at all or if it's too unlikely that they will connect with the cursing attacks around. If you want to go FG, do you want to open with Spice Merchant or rather with a Young Witch? Do you want a Soothsayer at all?
We both decided to go for Fool's Gold, he opened FG/YW where I opened FG/SM. On our second shuffle he gets his SM and I'm getting my YW. Unfortunately, my Spice Merchant doesn't help me to get double FG, where his does. I'm loosing the FG split 4-6 and he also puts the first two curses into my deck before I put a curse into his. My in-between Watchtower never shows up against his Young Witch. I'm picking up a Wharf and a Counterfeit, he gets lots of Counterfeits and lots of Gold. He's getting ahead with points so I think I have to break PPR and just gamble, but he wins.
I really would like to know how you would have played this board.
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Game 4Moat, Bridge, Conspirator, Envoy, Herald, Thief, Worker's Village, Highway, Hunting Party, Possession
Provinces / Estates
adrien starts, adrien wins
http://www.gokosalvager.com/static/logprettifier.html?20140711/log.50e7525ee4b0b5b74140a6c0.1405105333431.txtThis board, I'd really love to play it again without Possesion.
So, we both open Silver/Bridge. I'm going hard for Hunting Parties while he puts in a Gold and a Potion quite early. He gets his Possession earlier than I do but it's not that bad until here. I win the Hunting Party Split 7-3 and we bot manage to get 3 Possessions and some Villages, but he can get an early Province for a points lead. I'd really need a Province myself but I can't.
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Game 5Poor House, Oracle, Steward, Storeroom, Alchemist, Mining Village, Sea Hag, Tournament, Vault, Border Village
Provinces / Estates
assemble me starts, adrien wins
http://www.gokosalvager.com/static/logprettifier.html?20140711/log.50e7525ee4b0b5b74140a6c0.1405106776415.txtI want to build an engine here with Tournament. Stewards to get a thin deck, play the Tournament more often and Alchemists for draw. He decides to build something with Vault and Poor House. I really would have liked to build more here, but I felt I was behind quite fast and couldn't afford to fall behind to far. His Tournaments helped him to Princess and later Followers while I went for Trusty Steed and Bag of Gold. I think I should have gotten Sea Hag and a Storeroom at some point. We both stall quite hard in the endgame, again I think I have to go for the PP (not sure about this anymore) and again I loose.
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Game 6Pearl Diver, Masquerade, Menagerie, Philosopher's Stone, Feodum, Pirate Ship, Scout, Wandering Minstrel, Trading Post, Goons
Provinces / Shelters
http://gokosalvager.com/static/logprettifier.html?20140711/log.50e7525ee4b0b5b74140a6c0.1405108136309.txtadrien starts, assemble me wins
He opens Masquerade / Minstrel while I go for Masquerade / Silver. I don't like opening WM because it just happens soo often that your early Silver gets discarted but you really want to hit 6 here. Also, with Necro around and Goons being the only relevant terminal, although the Sifting is quite good, you don't need that many Minstrels. He also gets a very early Pirate Ship (2nd or 3rd Shuffle) which I think is awful here as trashing my Coppers helps me more and I can buy some Coppers back with Goons later. I'm the first to get to Goons and get a bunch of Minstrels and Menageries, later some Pearl Divers. I'm picking up Goons No 2 and 3. His Pirate Ship doesn't hit a lot, because I don't buy a lot of Money. Otherwise, he's doing mostly the same, but he can never make up for my early lead. He gets for some late extra Goons which seems reasonable to catch up, but I can pile out soon enough with a convenient lead.
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Overall, a lot of interesting boards, probably the highest density of interesting boards during my league matches so far. Thanks to adrien for the games and good luck for your upcoming ones. I'm really unhappy with my performance here and hope to do better during my next games.