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[mgallop]

http://dominion.isotropic.org/gamelog/201207/07/game-20120707-165115-a9898e9b.html

This was a superweird game where opponent opened 5-2 Torturer-Hamlet vs my 4-3 Hamlet-Steward, and I was almost completely sure I was going to lose until the very endgame.

Does my opponent mess up by getting conspirators too early instead of just overloading on Hamlet/Torturer to destroy me and then later building his economy?

[hdu88]

I think there are two reasons you won.

1. Your opponent gained Curses more aggressively than you, including times where they gained Curses without much hope of drawing their sole Steward. Meanwhile, you chose to discard whenever you were tortured without a Steward, probably because your opponent went for the Conspirators instead of more Torturers like you said. This resulted in a 2-0 Curse split in your favor.

2. Your opponent got some really bad draws late in the game, and they were forced to break PPR because you would have won on piles otherwise.

[mgallop]

Makes sense. So in general, when you're ahead in Torturer games when to do you want to pivot to improving your buying power (either with conspirator or with Gold). Do you just pound hamlet w/ <5, torturer w/ 5+. Taking Gold w/ an early 6 seems good (as it usually is), but ending the game with only 3 torturers after such an early lead seems suboptimal.

[ehunt]

One other thing - your opponent started greening a little too early.

[dghunter79]

Makes sense. So in general, when you're ahead in Torturer games when to do you want to pivot to improving your buying power

I wait until the Curses are gone.