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[Biderman]

This was just hell to play. 41 turns and almost 3 hours. Props to anyone who bothers to read even half the log. I still don't understand why the game developed as it did, but it felt like Militia kept keeping me off of 8... I went through after and found atleast 4 times.

http://dominion.isotropic.org/gamelog/201110/22/game-20111022-145215-59b599d6.html

What was the most painful game you have played?

[dondon151]

It's because your opponent wasn't helping you with emptying out the Provinces. That tends to prolong the game a fair bit.

[Biderman]

It's because your opponent wasn't helping you with emptying out the Provinces. That tends to prolong the game a fair bit.

Not that much surely?

EDIT: Also, any idea what the heck he was doing?

[dondon151]

It looks like he was trying to abuse the Black Market deck to ramp up the value of Fairgrounds, although he probably wasn't going about it the right way.

Simulations like to say things like BMU gets 4 Provinces in x turns (where x is usually between 14 and 18), but most decks can't keep up the pace when they begin to choke on green. It doesn't particularly help that your opponent had ample Militias with which to impede you, and you probably got a little unlucky here and there as well.

[DsnowMan]

Why did he buy one fairground? he could have crushed you with more of them.

[DG]

Nobles are a very good pile to exhaust. They provide vp and are generally useful to your deck. If you had taken nobles and trashed copper with the masquerade then you would probably have been finished much faster. The inn is then an improved card for you too.

[guided]

Why did he buy one fairground? he could have crushed you with more of them.

Yes. Skimming this log I completely :facepalmed: about your opponent's play. He could have pulverized you into dust by getting more Fairgrounds. And he's accumulating 25 Coppers to go with his one Counting House? AUGH.

[DG]

His garden was worth 8 points though.

[Biderman]

Why did he buy one fairground? he could have crushed you with more of them.

Yes. Skimming this log I completely :facepalmed: about your opponent's play. He could have pulverized you into dust by getting more Fairgrounds. And he's accumulating 25 Coppers to go with his one Counting House? AUGH.

After this game ended, I looked at his deck and was like WTF? Why did I not lose this game by a million points...

Maybe I should have named this thread "WTF was the opp doing instead of winning?" :O

For most of this game I was certain I was lost, but decided to stick with it like a good sport. Then about 10 turns before it ended, I decided to count my VPs and was amazed to see I owned all the provences... Then I was like "#$%^! I can win this game!"