You know, dealing with all this kerfuffle (I thought the word was 'kerfluffle', but little red wiggly line tells me otherwise), and because I have had some life events be time-draining on me here recently (more on that later perhaps), I won't go into annotating. It's just better this way. I do still think it's an unreasonable request to make, but on the other hand (as I've said before, a la with the video thing), it just doesn't mean that much to me. It's not worth it.
But okay, I don't want to leave you guys TOTALLY hanging (and since I won't be able to annotate the next one until probably next Sunday), I will give you my impressions on the set.
There is workshop/gardens. But I think this will lose, in general, to tournament (never gonna be blocked) with bazaar and/or forge at the right moment, probably bazaar at the right moment and young witch at some point. However, *that* strategy is extremely susceptible to young witch... which in turn will not do so well against workshop/gardens. But I think that some hybrid between Young Witch/Secret Chamber (bane!) and workshop/gardens is best. I also ended up grabbing some worker's villages to supplement, which was nice for all the terminals and the extra buys. I think the other strong options here, to go against, are a more straight workshop/gardens (but you can only do this if you are sure they are not going for the province-colony-tournament kind of thing), in which case you REALLY need to win that gardens split, probably rather definitively, as you have no other recourse, or something with young witches and banes that can cobble its way up to provinces, but if you go THAT route, you really need to not contest gardens, until late anyway, where you have a province or preferably two on them.
I also want to note that I think I have worked out a way of making these things anonymous. And of course I would love to have opponents' feedback on these, but direct collaboration is just not feasible.
Anyway, last but certainly not least, I want to apologize to Stef for any unpleasantness I have caused him. It was not my intention.