MA Arco bids Au revoir.  Hats off to Jomon for handing me my hat 

.  I could not scratch his pretender but I did manage to give him more horror marks than Joan Rivers.
Never had a game where I was given two winged helmets on consecutive turns via random events.  That took some sting off the turn 2 brigand event in my Cap.  I'm a so so early expander at best and the brigand recession did not help.  (Expansion went waaaay better in my practice game).  Anyway, good luck all.
-ssj