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Game Reports / Silliness in a throne room

« on: November 30, 2012, 10:08:58 am »

http://dominion.isotropic.org/gamelog/201211/30/game-20121130-070350-98801bff.html

This is kind of magic, there's a whole lot of fun cards.  I'm pretty sure this should have ended sooner, but we both scored a lot of points.

I know I had no idea who'd won, though having eight vineyards is usually a step on the way to success.

Don't think I've had many games with so many points that's so close.

Anyone have any thoughts?

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General Discussion / I haven't been playing much recently

« on: April 06, 2012, 12:04:11 pm »

My son was born at 2.32 on Tuesday morning.  He's brilliant, and a bit distracting.

MasterAir

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Game Reports / Nice idea from Silverback

« on: March 22, 2012, 09:00:24 am »

I was disappointed by this game, it looked for a moment like Worker's Village + Counting House + Bank was going to beat my boring plod with BM+Labs in this Colony game.  Kudos to Silverback for buying a Colony using only copper, but alas, it was not to be.

http://dominion.isotropic.org/gamelog/201203/22/game-20120322-055613-1a424097.html

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Dominion General Discussion / So Jack vs. Jack

« on: March 02, 2012, 08:10:17 am »

It's not a very fun game, it's often (but less often than you might think) the best play.

Could it be called a Jack Off?

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I'll get my coat.

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Game Reports / My first success with HoP!

« on: March 02, 2012, 05:37:24 am »

I had fun in this game, sorry to Thou for my time of play but I finally made HoP click for me.  I think this board was neatly set up for it, the Inn helps a lot and the Inn + menagerie combo is quite strong.  I found the HoP benefits a lot from Highway.  Nearly got beaten by the much simpler bunch of stables game played by my opponent.  Won in the end by a couple of megaturns.  When the first one didn't quite come off I thought I was done for, but it was late enough in the game that I had to take my chances with a bunch of dead cards.

http://dominion.isotropic.org/gamelog/201203/02/game-20120302-022824-3ef5e0e1.html

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Game Reports / Interesting board - University => Minions

« on: January 30, 2012, 10:02:21 am »

I enjoyed this one, even though 16 turns took about half an hour to play.

http://dominion.isotropic.org/gamelog/201201/30/game-20120130-065526-3a109c78.html

I think I was just a bit luckier than my opponent, though I think I was right to choose university before gollum (I'm not sure if I've ever been right about gollum though, so I don't expect to start today).  Really enjoyed this board!  Should save it and see about playing in real life with friends.

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Game Reports / Good play or good luck?

« on: January 26, 2012, 09:14:15 am »

The game was [Ambassador, Cutpurse, Goons, Haggler, Menagerie, Mine, Minion, Moneylender, Remodel, and Swindler].  I chose to open cutpurse/silver and forgo the Ambassador, instead playing fairly straight down the line big money.  Did I get away with one, or was it in fact the right play?  I picked up a bunch of minions on $5 to try to stop my opponent gaining a critical mass of those.  If I did it again, I might go swindler over cutpurse.  Though given my opponent picked up a curse anyway maybe that would have been a bad move.

I think it may have been good fortune, but I didn't ever feel particularly behind in the game.  I've always considered Ambassador to be a must buy card, but having watched a few of WanderingWinder's videos, I decided that there wasn't an engine worth developing in this game.

Thoughts?

http://dominion.isotropic.org/gamelog/201201/26/game-20120126-060336-0ffe63a2.html

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Dominion General Discussion / A response to "Secret History of the Cornucopia Cards" outtakes.

« on: August 03, 2011, 11:24:46 am »

Donald X. in "Secret History of the Cornucopia Cards" said:

- There was a card, +$2, name a type, dig for it, put it on your deck. It cost $3. You can almost always name a type that isn't in your deck if you want, so it's "strictly better" than Chancellor. This really bothers some people (Anthony Rubbo being one of them). It had to be worse in some way and I didn't want it to be worse.

I like this as an idea for a card; what about adding "If you don't find it, gain a curse."  I still think it's a strong "deck cycling with benefits" card, it's no longer strictly better than a Chancellor.  I'm sure I'm not the first person to have thought of it.  I wonder why (if) it was rejected....

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Game Reports / When Goons are correct

« on: August 02, 2011, 12:36:02 pm »

Hello all, haven't posted here before but I love the site.  Lots of interesting debate which is rare for the internet.

The kingdom suggested I should Goon like crazy, so I did.
http://dominion.isotropic.org/gamelog/201108/02/game-20110802-092425-169a1f36.html

Perhaps this should go in the "sorry to my opponent" thread too, I can't help but feel that getting the first goon was a monumental swing factor in this game.  I was after it from the word go in my defence.

As an aside, I love the image for Goons used on the Isotropic site.  It made me grin!