I had an Armed Intervention. If you bid any higher I was going to let you have it and take 7 instead. I really should have rebuilt that Cavalryman to block the retaliatory aggression, though. My Journalism -> Multimedia upgrade cost me 4 of 5 resources I had at the time and gained me 1 culture. I should have disbanded my, at that point unnecessary, Philosophy and built a Cavalryman instead. For me that's a net gain of -1 Culture, -2 Science (and I was almost certain Jack had seeded Science based events... although I should have known he hadn't because I had IoScience in my hand and had played IoTechnoloy myself...). For that loss you would never have been able to finish your wonder and score 19 culture.
Granted, I also played poorly at the end; had I not disbanded that Bronze, the entire thing would have been moot, as I would have had my 9 Resources without Plunder.
I would have had it by 4 points. Well played though, I don't deserve the win. I didn't play well at all that game (and it wasn't helped by my planning an aggressive start and then not drawing a single helpful tactics card all game).
In all truth, I'm
still not sure how I won this game. I mean:
Round 4, I get attacked, and forced to sacrifice big time.
Round 5, Plundered, and forced to concede.
Round 6, Foray, both other players got 3 Food/Res
Round 6, Border Conflict, I lost a building
As I said in the chat on the game, I felt like I'd had my Sea Hag discarded by my opponent's Sea Hag two shuffles in a row. I have
no clue how I won.
