Topic: Marauder vs. Cultist (Read 1269 times)

assemble_me · « **on:** October 20, 2014, 08:33:47 am »

Hi,

I just found a game log from season 1 of the dominion league.
It's a Colony board, he opens Silver/Marauder where I go for Silver/Silver to try to go heavily for Cultists.
I'm loosing the ruins split 4-6 that way, and I'm still puzzled how that could happen. Is Marauder stronger than Cultist here? Is it better to pick up a Marauder before going for Cultists? I would have expexcted the answer to be "no", because I would have thought you'd just draw your Marauders dead.
After the Ruins war, I add Provinces, but they never collide with my Tournaments until it's nearly the end of the game. It may be a bit less likely with the junk around, but I still believe it's the right call, even if it's just to block his Tournaments and he has a lot.
He really seems to have benefitted from the extra spoils as he can buy Colonies much faster than me (or maybe that's because of my extra Ruins... probably just both).

http://gokosalvager.com/static/logprettifier.html?20140610/log.513880ece4b006f8dc8ce4c2.1402427331478.txt

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Squire, Oracle, Marauder, Pirate Ship, Quarry, Rats, Tournament, Band of Misfits, Cultist, Hoard
Colonies / Estates

Awaclus · « **Reply #1 on:** October 20, 2014, 10:42:52 am »

You got unlucky and played suboptimally. I think you can ignore Marauder, but you should probably have opened Quarry/Silver to maximize the odds of getting two Cultists on turns 3 and 4 (I'm not sure if it's actually better than Quarry/Oracle though, and Quarry/Squire can be good too because Squire is good later), and the first Gold you bought should have been another Cultist.