[chrispedersen]

As mictlan I often take a luck-3 scale. A surprise dominion push can cause all kinds of interesting events on the border.

this is one of the (few) ways to have more than 4 luck events.
His (bad) luck events don't count against your luck score.

However, the flip side can be a bugger.

Suppose you have 1 dominion candle, but 3 luck. Your opponent pushes dominion so it now has 0 candles. You are now the victim of -3 Luck.

Blech!

Like you Jim, I am pretty sensitve to the vagaries of luck. I often play turmoil/sloth. And it seems almost every game I have a province which for some reason or other has misfortune 2-3.

I can't tell you the number of times I get barbarian invasions in those provinces.

It gets to the point that I build castles or boost PD in those provinces to handle the never ending barbarian invasions.

Now if I was really smart, I'd find a way to enslave them as a never ending source of troops......