Why Purchasing Development Cards is a Bad Strategy
A buddy of mine and I were talking tonight about the the game Settlers of Catan, and the fact that I had commented the other day that I consider a win based on heavy investment in Development Cards to be lucky as opposed to a viable strategy. It turns out that we had both recently been beat (same game) by another young man who, as I see it, got very lucky with Development Cards; to the tune of getting three Monopoly (combined with perfect opportunitiest to leverage them), one Road Building, one Victory point, and just enough Knights to take largest army. Given the fact that you can indeed win a game...
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