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Dominion General Discussion / Re: Conspirator or Grand Market?

« on: January 03, 2013, 12:44:24 pm »

If they're both in the kingdom, it's likely going to be a 3-pile ending (Conspirators, Grand Markets and Estates) so you need to have enough GMs to get the buys to clear out the 3rd pile whenever you're ahead. But getting 7 GMs is not easy and then you're looking at Provinces and Duchies.

This greening will make it harder for your Conspirators to activate so I'll probably get a bit more GMs than Conspirators as this allows you to control the game a little better and gives you better value in the end game.

I agree with you 100%

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Dominion General Discussion / Conspirator or Grand Market?

« on: December 31, 2012, 12:15:48 pm »

I was wondering if you liked the $4 Conspirator or the $6 no Copper Grand Market?

Tuyolqx

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Dominion General Discussion / Re: The Power of Vineyard

« on: December 31, 2012, 12:11:23 pm »

Very nice post 

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Dominion General Discussion / Re: Playing With Altar

« on: December 31, 2012, 12:09:36 pm »

Thank you

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Dominion General Discussion / Re: Kingdoms and Expansions

« on: December 31, 2012, 12:06:39 pm »

Mix in ALL THE EXPANSIONS!

Playing IRL I'll sometimes use a Recommended Set from the rulebooks, but those only combine two expansions. I had a lot of fun* with the Dark Ages/Cornucopia set Dark Carnival: Band of Misfits, Cultist, Fortress, Hermit, Junk Dealer, Knights / Fairgrounds, Hamlet, Horn of Plenty, Menagerie

*warning: this lead to a very long four player game. One of my sisters had only played Dominion a couple times, and my other sister and my mother also took a while deciding what strategy to pursue, so it wasn't a terribly fast-paced set.

Thank you that sounds like a lot of fun, the longest IRL dominion game I've played was probably 2 hours!

Tuyolqx

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Dominion General Discussion / Kingdoms and Expansions

« on: December 31, 2012, 11:49:09 am »

Hi all,

I was wondering what your guys favorite kingdom is to play with? I was also wondering what expansions you like to mix with together? If you could please let me know that would be terrific!

Tuyolqx

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Dominion General Discussion / Re: Playing With Altar

« on: December 30, 2012, 09:54:51 pm »

... When using an engine, Altar is ONLY useful when trying to build it...

I wouldn't buy altar late or anything but I'm pretty sure it remains useful pretty long if you're going for an engine without other trashing (and obviously continues to be good if fortress is out). Namely, late game you can get a fairly cheap duchy and earlier, if you can draw more than your whole deck, you can gain a card and draw it all in the same turn allowing you to continue to build your engine while it is already running smoothly and allowing you to get more immediate gains from altar.

I agree with you totally, I apologize for I used wrong wording, and should have said,"Altar should not be purchased after you have already built your engine, unless you want a Duchy like you had menchioned." Altar still has a use toward end game, but should not be a "must-have" card.

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Dominion General Discussion / Re: Playing With Altar

« on: December 30, 2012, 05:51:33 pm »

Please let me know if you have any questions!

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Dominion General Discussion / Re: Playing with DA

« on: December 30, 2012, 05:45:05 pm »

I normally play with a mix of all expansions 

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Dominion General Discussion / Playing With Altar

« on: December 30, 2012, 05:31:19 pm »

Hi all,

There are 3 particular strategies that I wanted to share with you guys, when playing with Altar. First of all it is extremely important to have cards that give +2 actions, in your deck. When using Altar you might want to analyze the board to see whether or not you are playing with Bridge or Highway. If you are playing with those cards you should probably go for a pretty popular strategy, which is reducing the cost of Province/Colonies, by playing enough Highways or Bridges, and gaining them by trashing your Coppers and your Estates. If you are not playing with Highway or Bridge then you might want to try to build an engine, by buying an Altar and trashing your Coppers and Estates, to gain key $5 cards such as, Market, Hunting Party, Wharf, Festival, etc. When using an engine, Altar is ONLY useful when trying to build it. The last strategy I wanted to share with you guys is implementing Altar into a Duchy/Duke rush. I'm guessing people have figured these strategies out before me, but I just wanted to share them with you guys!

Please let me know your thoughts on this!