i know the early trashing is supposed to be bad, but they sure scared me with it!
The board is Ambassador, Sea Hag, Marauder, Witch, Torturer, Mountebank, Soothsayer, Cultist, Giant, Swamp Hag. Events are Ferry and Alms. Which corner do you run and cry into?
I definitely thought of that, but I just didn't think there was enough time to set that up. All of a sudden he was greening while I didn't have enough economy to buy Torturers + the Villages to play them + still buying a Pool every turn.
so the relevant cards on this board (province/estates game) were plaza, tournament, young witch (w/ cellar as the bane), governor, and king's court. my thought process here was as follows -
Cellar, Masterpiece, Woodcutter, Plaza, Scavenger, Spy, Tournament, Young Witch, Governor, King's Court, PeddlerLike, I was constantly behind on Knights, and I had no way to coming back at all. In the end, my opponent had two knights and I had nothing.
Have you tried watching WW's Dominion videos while drinking morning coffee? If you can explain to yourself all the decisions he makes you are a competitive player already.
Also, are you good or not you will be on a losing streak from time to time anyway, that's fine.
Does the fact that you must own the base set in order to use Seaside not come into play?
The weird thing to me is that I remember the expansions being about $12 and $7 before, but the sum wasn't $85?
Got really lucky with the 3/5 opening on a Baker board for an early Count
Does Goko have any mechanism for kicking people who are intentionally not responding to your Torturers for 20 minutes each time you play one?
Would be ever so grateful to get the opponent I'm facing now a ban, a warning, or at the least a kick from the game.
Beggars, Gardens, Copper. In 16 turns. That's a rush, in my opinion.
"It depends on the board" is a blanket statement.
Sure, we can say "Wharf is good", but that's entirely useless. Saying that Wharf is good doesn't tell anyone how to play games with Wharf in them. "Whenever Wharf is on the board, you want to win the Wharf split" is not always true, but it's much more useful.
In the past year, I've gotten much better at Dominion. The main improvements I've made in my game have been looking at my decisions -- those "universal truths" I thought I knew about Dominion, and questioning them all. Trying to see if I could do better. And I have over 10 iso levels worth of improvement to show for it.
How do you set activate then End Action/End Turn buttons at the top of the log like I see in AdamH videos
I had to get the beta version of the extension. You can find information about it here
I should have actually used negative hyper geometric instead of a naive binomial in my last post. Real probabilities are (for all cards):
0 events: 43.5%
1 event: 35.5%
2+ events: 21.0%
Sure, sometimes it's right, but if I'm only using Mercenary for its discard attack, I'm probably not opening double Urchin for it. Also, I'm probably losing the game. I would say the main exception is if there's some other attack on the board that you want in your deck -- get that Attack and use it to increase your Attack density instead of a third Urchin.
Anything that's too swingy -- e.g. if you are lucky and you get one, then getting all of the rest of them is even easier, like Grand Market, or if you're going for multiple Mercenaries. I had a game recently where I opened Urchin/Urchin and never got them to collide.
Two Mercenaries are simply mandatory, and getting two should be your top priority whenever you want one at all.
One of the biggest recurring mistakes I see is people not buying a 3rd Urchin after connecting on T3 or 4. The purpose of the 3rd Urchin is not to speed up the time of your first connection, but to get to a deck containing two Mercs as quickly as possible.
Pretty much the only exception to this is if you already trashed down with e.g. Chapel and only use the Mercenary for its discard attack.
If you buy a card via Black Market, Hermit should not trigger.
In retrospect the card is clearly too powerful for how interesting it is. Which is to say, the most powerful cards should make for lots of interesting gameplay and different situations; Chapel for example may be strong, but the games play out differently depending on the rest of the cards. With Rebuild the rest of the cards are too unlikely to get involved in your Rebuild deck.
For casual players it probably isn't a problem, unless one of them reads online about how to use Rebuild. For serious players you will probably have more fun just not playing with Rebuild after you've had the experience. I would rather that not be the case, but well at least there are 34 other kingdom cards in Dark Ages.
I got better at making sets after Intrigue. I can believe that people playing the base set by itself might feel like it needs something. There are some duds, and those duds reduce strategic options. The base set has done great anyway, but you know, there's room for improvement. But I mean take out the duds and you're there, that's what I think. If someone plays a random ten from Dark Ages they are not going to see all these boards with nothing to do.
Here is aggregate data from the tool on the top 20 players on Iso: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/13mQ1humtQbPLY9nbKscR65dV7hbGPdI3AQkNjMHZpeM/pubhtml?gid=495443102&single=true
awesome board with multiple synergies: university/watchtower, storeroom/poor house, butcher/rats, throne room/everything.