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[zahlman]

Worker's Village, Highway (the two cards at the core of it, obviously), Witch (piling the Curses and making use of the surplus actions from WV to build a half-decent draw engine), Bishop and Loan (for light trashing) combine to create the perfect storm. Not really sure exactly what opponent was going for - but I'm guessing that buying Cities wouldn't really have helped him, since I have so much more control over the game timing as I consistently have more Highways and WVs. On the last turn I can just barely afford the Province that puts me into the point lead as I simultaneously pile out - taking two Cities with surplus Buys more to show off than anything else (They could just as easily have been Duchies, allowing me to recover from a larger deficit)

http://dominion.isotropic.org/gamelog/201210/28/game-20121028-010157-803f0300.html

[khanh93]

Pilling out on cities is not "showing off"; the duchies would not have won you the game that turn.

[EgorK]

Pilling out on cities is not "showing off"; the duchies would not have won you the game that turn.

You do noticed, that cities were not one of those 3 piles, yes?

[zahlman]

I guess it's still a pretty strange sort of 'showing off' - more just something that amused me when I realized how they'd been ignored on what initially looks like a great board for them. City is weird; you really need a plan to control the timing, but you also have to fight for the City pile itself...

[Asklepios]

Well played.

I'd say that the actual key to your victory here was your choice of Silver/Bishop over Loan/Bishop.
Your opponent kept himself off $5 on Turn 3 AND Turn 5 from that choice, and that was critical.

In contrast, your money meant you had a good chance of getting the early Witch, which was the key way to breaking the Highway cascade, and also meant a better chance of getting more Highways faster.