blueblimp 3 : 1 Turkman
Game 1: Turkman 39 - blueblimp 26
Game 2: blueblimp 35 - Turkman 28
Game 3: Turkman 18 -
blueblimp 23Game 4: Turkman -100 -
blueblimp 18Thanks Turkman for the games. This was a mix of terrible kingdoms (game 1, game 2) and fun kingdoms (game 3, game 4). In the Swiss portion, I had lucked into 1st-player advantage in every series, and finally this time I started second in game 1.
Game 1: So very little going on here. Turkman does BM+Remake. I do BM+Remake+Cache. (Is BM+Remake any good, anyway?) Somehow I end up very, very far behind. Not sure why.
(In between these two, I had to step away for a few minutes and got disconnected. Turkman graciously allowed me to resign a game so that I would be first player in game 2.)
Game 2: King's Court and Mountebank are here. Walled Village too, which we use a bit (Turkman more so). Possession and Witch are present but not so attractive. (Would it be stronger to go Witch here than Mountebank?) I snag a Trading Post after my first Mountebank, but it doesn't do much. I win by pounding Duchies really hard, then piling out on Duchies, Estates, and Curses.
Game 3: A Torturer game, but Trading Post is here to soften it somewhat. I elect to delay my Torturers a bit, instead getting a Trading Post and getting a lot of Highways. I think he got bad draws here and I got good ones. I grab a couple Colonies and am able to pile out the Curses for the win.
Game 4: Ambassador game, and I'm second-player. In hindsight, I probably should have opened Amb/Silver anyway (or maybe Amb/FV), because getting Margrave quickly will decide this game. Turkman gets it first, but thankfully I can get one too. Later, a misclick by him (discarding the wrong cards) results in a dead turn 14, which is enough for me to comfortably win off an Alchemist/Fishing Village/Monument engine.