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I ordered from Amazon last night with regular Prime shipping after my FLGS said they did not expect to have copies until middle of next week. I got shipping notice today, but right now it says it won't arrive until Monday.  I am optimistic based on the reports here that it will show up tomorrow or Saturday.
You might be right if that was just your first notice. But if the notice you are talking about is the one with a tracking number, then their estimate is probably correct. My first notice said Monday (that's why I chose overnight because without it they were saying Tuesday, and I wanted it for game night on Monday). Then when I got the shipping notice with tracking number they said it would come today, which it did. I got both notices yesterday within a few hours of each other. If you didn't get a notice until today you may have ordered too late to meet yesterdays shipping deadline.

Also, it will depend on the shipper. UPS and FedEx are pretty good with their estimates. But regular Prime shipping sometimes goes via USPS. A lot of people complain about that, but I've had good luck with them. Sometimes I even get things on Sunday, even though that seems kind of extreme, since default Prime shipping doesn't guarantee delivery on either Saturday or Sunday. In a lot of cases I wasn't expecting them to deliver on Sunday and almost felt bad that some postal employee had to drive to my neighborhood just to deliver some simple thing I ordered via Prime.

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Just received my overnight delivery from Amazon that I ordered yesterday.

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Dominion: Empires Previews / Mountain Pass Bidding Strategy
« on: June 08, 2016, 02:14:37 pm »
There's been some discussion regarding bidding in the Empires Rulebook thread, but I thought I'd start a separate thread to discuss this topic. I'm not an expert Dominion player, and although I'm familiar with all the cards in Dominion, I don't know them well enough to come up with relevant combinations. So here are some questions regarding bidding that I'd like to see people discuss, some practical, some more of a challenge/theoretical (and possibly some may be the "wrong question", feel free to address what you think the "right question" should have been):

1) If the first Province is bought earlier in the game, what are the factors that will determine bidding strategy and what should that strategy be? 2 player vs. 3-4 player? Colony's available? Dominate available? Alt VP available? My definition of "earlier in the game" for this question would be at a time when the game end is not imminent, so a player would be less likely to bid 40 debt based solely on the fact that they don't think they'll get another turn, or they are willing to play the remainder of the game without buying anything, even though they don't have an alternate gain strategy. How does the fact that not only are you gaining 8 VP but you are denying those VP to your opponent affect your bid?

2) Although it might be difficult to keep accurate track of opponent VP currently, the new "When scoring" Landmarks can make it even more difficult. If both Mountain Pass and a "When scoring" Landmark is present in the game, how does that affect bidding if the first Province was bought late in the game? At what point does bidding 40 become the right thing to do?

3) When, if ever, should the other player pass (giving you 8 VP for 1 debt token) in a 2 player game?  If possible, give an example. Also, although possibly valid, I'm not looking for answers other than "When the other player is already assured of a win and doesn't need the 8VP", i.e. I'm looking for cases where winning the bid and taking any debt tokens will interfere with the players strategy (even if that strategy will deliver more than 8 VP next turn or will be a critical step in generating more VP in later turns, you also have to take into account that they would give 8 VP to you). Even if it has the chance to mess their turn up, should they still gamble and "bid up", i.e. bid something that they hope you'll outbid, but at least not just give the VP away for 1 debt token.

4) If the game has more than 2 players, does that affect the above question?

5) Is there a mid game strategy? What I mean is how might bidding strategy evolve between early and late game (when bidding 40 might be the right answer), or is there more of a knife point transition (e.g. the point where people start buying victory cards rather than treasures or actions) between what you might do prior to an impending game end and what you would do when the game end is imminent?

6) Am I overthinking this? :)

I'd certainly appreciate any real life examples from the play testers or people who have played with it using proxies based on the published Empires rules.




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Dominion: Empires Previews / Re: Empires Previews #5: Events
« on: May 13, 2016, 12:58:08 pm »
Dominate really seems crazy. Previously, $16 and an extra buy would get you 12 points. In any game that has Dominate, you'll never (edge case blah blah) buy 2 Provinces on a turn.

I feel like you can make almost the exact same point about Colony though, right? Prior to Colony, a $13 turn with an extra buy got you 9 victory points, but with Colony you got 10 for $11 without needing an extra buy. It was also better to gain a Colony and a Duchy than 2 Provinces for the same cost. Colony will show up in a lot more games than Dominate if you're going full random though, and there is still the edge case of buying 2 Provinces to end the game.

Dominate in a Colony game will also make some interesting changes. A Colony game ends fairly often with the Colony pile being exhausted, i.e. in a Colony game Provinces are the consolation prize. With Dominate in the game it's likely there will be more balance between the Province pile and the Colony pile. If you have $22 there's only 1 VP difference between 2 Colony's and 1 Dominate + 1 Province, so near the end of the game you may be making the choice based on which one ends the game.

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Dominion: Dark Ages Previews / Re: Dark Ages Retail Store Availability
« on: August 23, 2012, 04:50:39 pm »
My FLGS didn't have it yet. I was about to order a copy online when I remembered an alternate FLGS. Called them up and they had gotten it yesterday. So I got my copy even sooner than I expected.

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The knights are all people, the names anyway. I am just waiting for stores to get the expansion before posting the secret history. Such is the way of my people.

Does that mean that the artists who drew the individual knights just chose arbitrary features, or did they have any information regarding the associated namesake?

Does a Canadian store count? Geekstop Games claims to have it in stock (both on their website and a forum member associated with the store says they have it).


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