http://www.gokosalvager.com/static/logprettifier.html?/20141014/log.5075b25251c30da02a09b898.1413304268129.txtEmbargo, Pawn, Scrying Pool, Lookout, Workshop, Bandit Camp, Council Room, Market, Royal Seal, Peddler
I'm out of practice! I've been playing bots too much and I guess I'm not used to the pace set by actual humans. I just got crushed by a player ostensibly 22 levels lower than me...
My opponent and I both opened lookout/potion. first reshuffle, he got bandit camp, then eec/pot/lookout on turn 4, which means two estates (good) and potion and lookout miss the 2nd reshuffle. I got pawn/scryping pool turns 3/4 with nothing missing the reshuffle. I'm thinking, market has to be a better first-five than BC with peddler on the board, but then he gets a council room and it never misses his bandit camps, despite his weak trashing and 1-2 bandit camps. Now, council room is good here since i'm overdrawing my deck, but he totally crushed me, getting 4 provinces T12 (!) primarily fueled by bandit camps and 7 markets (why so many markets?). So where did I go wrong?
T6 i make a questionable play. My hand was ecc+lookout+pawn. I play the lookout, revealing cc/SP and trashing a copper, obviously. Now, if I discard the scrying pool, I can get up to $4 and grab a peddler. If I discard a copper and pick up the scrying pool, the rest of my deck is 6 coppers, 2 estates, and one scrying pool, so the likelihood is that I draw a copper and end up with $4 anyway but now three of my actions have missed the shuffle (along with ecc). I opt for leaving the SP on top and getting a second lookout. Should I have gotten a peddler here?
Did I blunder strategically? I mean, by T13 I had $19+P to spend and a very reliable deck, but my opponent had just gotten 4 provinces on his T12. I mean, it seems like I over-trashed and neglected my economy early, but aside from T6 I'm not sure that I made any really poor plays... Was he just lucky?
Any help would be appreciated.