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Yes you were playing it correctly, though I do not see how it wasn't fair. There are several ways to get around it.

It's about as unfair as using Red Dragon to block every battle when your opponent has only human Heroes.

This is a great combo but the crazy thing is you have TWO points of entry to combat it: use a card that kills ECs to get rid of Complainers, or a card that kills Heroes to get rid of the white Hero.  Get rid of EITHER of these and he can't use the combo anymore, whereas to get rid of Red Dragon, getting around that one EC is the only way to stop the infinite block.

Both Martyrs had been played, mine on his FBTN Benaiah, and his on my FBTN Moses

He did finally get the artifact out that lets his green prophets play an enhancement immediately, but the game was over at that point.  He probably could have done something to his white hero if he ever had initiative in a battle with my heroes, but I kept rescuing with Ehud and choosing a Sadducee of his that would always give me initiative.  Its kinda weird, because my gold/brown deck is doing well and it's far from my favorite deck, probably because its a hodge-podge of different characters (i.e. Simeon, Deborah, Women of Israel, Seeker of the Lost, Ehud, Eli, Samuel, Moses, Obed-Edom, and sometimes even Zaccheus and Joshua promo).  It's kind of judges, but not entirely.  Its even more of a mix on the brown side, with King Zed (I think that's the 1/1 Brown king), Athaliah, Uzzah, Esau, Abner, Beast from the earth (immune to females), Unclean Spirit, Complainers, etc.  I guess I'm more partial to themes in single color decks, but last night especially the combo of Ehud and Complainers worked very well.

By the way, I don't want to deceive anyone about this.  The "opponent" was ME.  I've been doing a lot of RTS of me against me, to see how my decks do against each other.  I also made a spreadsheet to track the win-loss record and against which decks.  At first I found this difficult, because I can see what the other person (ME) has in their plans/hand, but I think I am playing each game "fair" now.  I ask myself with each turn what I would HONESTLY do if I did NOT know what the other person had, and I just do it.  Usually it means my plans are thwarted, but that is likely what would happen in a real game.

The hardest part is separating what I know is still in the opposing deck from what any experienced player would EXPECT to be in a deck of those colors.  For example, last night the green/black player had no lost souls for a time in their LOB.  When opponent (me) blocked their green hero with King Zedekiah, I decided that an experienced player would expect Dungeon of Malciah to be played next.  The problem is that I also knew I DID have that card in my hand   I know that was a judgement call, but I felt justified playing Angel of the Lord on King Zed to maintain my already weak defense of no lost souls in LOB.  As it turned out, this move helped the Conversion/Complainers combo work for the other player, but I could not have foreseen that at the time.  Next time I play the gold/brown, I may hold onto Angel of the Lord specifically for Complainers.

Does anyone else try playing against themselves on RTS?  It's been a great learning experience for me.  The decks I expect to do well don't always play out that way.

I put my decks against each other all the time (though, not on RTS).  The down side is that, for me, I usually have the same configure when it comes to the type of enhancements (i.e. one negate, one recurrence, etc).  I also need to work on that mind set you mentioned.  I'm probably predujice against the deck I use a tournaments so it usually wins.

I play against "myself," but I use cardboard cutouts of Gabe and Tim (either one) and put them in the chair across from me. That way I can work on strategy and overcome the "stare."

When I practice multiplayer, I use a sledgehammer to represent Schaef and my Lord of the Rings Collector's Edition DVD case to represent The Hobbit.

Those games get nasty.

lol

Seriously, I play against myself in a lot of games actually.  This dates back 25 years to when I was playing Risk against myself as an 8 yr old because I didn't have any friends to play it with me.  I usually do this in Redemption using 2 actual decks.

Tim wins the thread.