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Let's Discuss ... / Re: Let's Discuss Base Set Cards: Adventurer

« on: April 03, 2016, 06:12:38 pm »

I remember seeing an expert game where winning strategy was opening Chapel/Chapel, quickly trashing starting cards, and using Platina-hunting Adventurer as a payload. I don't remember any specifcs, though.

Weird! That sounds hilarious and fun.

I really like one thing with cards such as Adventurer or Harvest: while they're weak most of the time, it's all more fun and a challenge to find a board where they're actually great.

I know, right?

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Let's Discuss ... / Re: Let's Discuss Base Set Cards: Bureaucrat

« on: April 03, 2016, 06:11:11 pm »

The bad thing is that Silver-gaining is basically a self-attack.
So you're attacking your opponent and your own deck.

Linear engine thinking. Card's value doesn't depend solely on their usability in engines.

Bureaucrat can be great in Garden/Silk Road/Duke and similar slogs - where you want as many SIlvers in your deck as you can get, in addition slowing down already slow opponent's deck.

Well, to be fair to Davio, most games are won through engines. Big Money or slogs tend to be the exception, not the rule.

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Dominion General Discussion / Re: What does everyone think is the best attack for $5?

« on: April 03, 2016, 06:09:31 pm »

Don't know about other places, but in the official play dominion app/program/website, the ai's love minion megaturns, and I tend to agree.

The AI bots are ludicrously weak and easy to beat, and getting strategy ideas from Bots is not a recommendable idea.

Excuse me for not being an expert player then. And my love for minion megaturns is not because I got it from the bots, I had been doing that IRL long before I discovered the website. Thanks for ruining my self-esteem, by the way.

Well, that's too bad.

What's everyone's opinion of Haunted Woods?

Weaker in the beginning, gets stronger towards the end game (assuming you're greening). Not the best attack, but a pretty good one, I'd think.

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Dominion General Discussion / Re: What does everyone think is the best attack for $5?

« on: April 03, 2016, 04:47:46 pm »

Don't know about other places, but in the official play dominion app/program/website, the ai's love minion megaturns, and I tend to agree.

The AI bots are ludicrously weak and easy to beat, and getting strategy ideas from Bots is not a recommendable idea.

Minion is Minion. non-terminal Silver most times with cycling power. If it didn't attack the opponent, I think it would be about where it is now. The attack isn't all that effective. I've had terrible hands discarded for good ones about as many times as I lost good hands for bad ones.

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Dominion General Discussion / Re: What does everyone think is the best attack for $5?

« on: April 03, 2016, 04:06:07 pm »

Cultist and Mountebank are the only real contenders here. Cultist ultimately junks faster and draws, which tends to be more devastating than Mountebank's double junk with money. Plus obviously the chaining thing. Cultist is too good.

There are only 10 ruins, plus they are not as bad as curses. Cultist does junk fast, but the ruins do run out eventually. Mountebank rarely runs out of coppers.

Then again, I've only played for a few years, so I defer to you guys as to which is the best. 

Don't contest Ruins, and try to get out of 10 Ruins in your deck, while your opponent coasts to Duchy/Estate/Cultist piles for an easy win. It's not about the negative VP as much as it is about the quick junking before you can even get your deck going. If Cultist gave you a copper every time, it would be possibly worse for you than Ruins.

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Dominion General Discussion / Re: What does everyone think is the best attack for $5?

« on: April 03, 2016, 03:54:28 pm »

Close contenders are Ghost Ship and Mountebank, but Cultist on the board basically warps everything.

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Non-Mafia Game Threads / Re: Secret Hitler II - Round 1

« on: April 03, 2016, 03:42:29 pm »

Well, this is disgusting.

What is? You didn't really expect to get elected, did you?

Sure I did. You were the only one voicing dissent.

Well we certainly need more interactions before deciding. Your government failing provides us with these interactions.

Well, not really. it will in the long run, but certainly not right now.

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Non-Mafia Game Threads / Re: Secret Hitler II - Round 1

« on: April 03, 2016, 02:01:08 pm »

well, there was only one person voting for you government that was not in it.

Well, if everyone votes like that, there will be an automatic policy enacted.

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Non-Mafia Game Threads / Re: Secret Hitler II - Round 1

« on: April 03, 2016, 01:15:57 pm »

Well, this is disgusting.

What is? You didn't really expect to get elected, did you?

Sure I did. You were the only one voicing dissent.

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Non-Mafia Game Threads / Re: Secret Hitler II - Round 1

« on: April 03, 2016, 11:29:11 am »

Well, this is disgusting.

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Let's Discuss ... / Re: Let's Discuss Base Set Cards: Chancellor

« on: April 03, 2016, 11:25:26 am »

inb4 Awaclus says Scavenger is just loads better. Which it is.

But that's not an inside joke, or if it is, I'm not inside it.

inb4 means 'in before'. There wasn't much of an inside joke thing to it.

I actually very much like this card; I think it is heavily under bought and ignored to the degree of Scout when it is not even close to that bad.

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Let's Discuss ... / Let's Discuss Base Set Cards: Chancellor

« on: April 02, 2016, 10:25:50 pm »

A face not even a mother could love.

-How good is this card? Early game? Late game?
-How often do you want to trigger the discard effect?
-Any reason to want more than one?
-With the advent of Events, is there cool new stuff you could do, like top deck things or tokens?

inb4 Awaclus says Scavenger is just loads better. Which it is.

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Non-Mafia Game Threads / Re: The Necro Wars

« on: April 02, 2016, 10:16:42 pm »

Every time you all frequently post, you don't win at all. You're just refreshing the necro.

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Goko Dominion Online / Re: Waiting for Adventures On-line

« on: April 02, 2016, 11:56:46 am »

Yeah, not impressed with the length it's taking MF to get this out there.

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Let's Discuss ... / Re: Let's Discuss Base Set Cards: Cellar

« on: April 02, 2016, 11:53:41 am »

It's worse than Warehouse.

It's no Warehouse, but...

...but it's also cheaper.

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Let's Discuss ... / Re: Let's Discuss Base Set Cards: Adventurer

« on: April 02, 2016, 11:52:55 am »

Now I'm curious. Is there any strategy at all where Adventurer is just legit OP with a simulator?

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Let's Discuss ... / Let's Discuss Base Set Cards: Cellar

« on: April 02, 2016, 11:50:30 am »

It's no Warehouse, but...

-How good of a sifter is Cellar? Is it overlooked?
-Any Engine uses?
-Any other uses for Cellar, besides Tunnel activation?

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Non-Mafia Game Threads / Re: Secret Hitler II - Round 1

« on: April 02, 2016, 11:43:18 am »

Has everyone voted yet?

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Let's Discuss ... / Re: Let's Discuss... Adventures!

« on: April 01, 2016, 05:41:27 pm »

Once I knew all the cards and what they do, I could never just go back to the simplicity of the Base Set, and I think the vast majority of people would be the same. It's simply a matter of introducing new concepts slowly game by game.

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General Discussion / Re: Random Stuff Part III

« on: April 01, 2016, 04:39:53 pm »

Where is the classic 'remove the restriction from forum games for overall posts' thing that theory does today? Totally slacking on the job.

Seems like a really tame April Fools' Day in general. I can't even find any new "leaked" Pokémon from Sun and Moon.

It's TrumpGrounds on Newgrounds today, it's pretty hilarious.

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Let's Discuss ... / Re: Let's Discuss... Adventures!

« on: April 01, 2016, 01:28:49 pm »

I haven't "been around the block", I'm pretty new here.

> new here
> Registered on December 29, 2012

I'm way newer here than you are.

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General Discussion / Re: Random Stuff Part III

« on: April 01, 2016, 01:23:57 pm »

Not! April fooolss   

lame

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Let's Discuss ... / Re: Let's Discuss Base Set Cards: Bureaucrat

« on: April 01, 2016, 12:34:45 pm »

My brother bought a lot of Bureaucrats, and it became very obvious that there was no better card in Dominion. 

I had pretty much figured Dominion out:  Bureaucrat is great and should be bought always. 

You might be in for a very rude awakening.

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Let's Discuss ... / Let's Discuss Base Set Cards: Bureaucrat

« on: April 01, 2016, 11:58:38 am »

House of Cards.

-How effective is the attack?
-How does this card compare to other Silver gainers?
-Any use in an Engine?

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Let's Discuss ... / Re: Let's Discuss... Adventures!

« on: April 01, 2016, 11:55:00 am »

Awaclus,

I like these threads. I have the feeling I gain benefit from them. If not information, than enjoyment. Do you think I am misguided, as in the case with alternative medicine (where people think there is a causal relationship between 'taking homeopathic stuf' and 'getting cured'), or not?

Not in the exact same sense as people who feel like they are physically cured by alternative medicine, but basically yes. I do believe that you could be doing better stuff with your time, both in terms of enjoyment and getting better at Dominion.

There is no substitute for simply playing the game, but talking about cards and situations is clearly beneficial to newer players and sometimes even veterans of the game. Just because you've been around the block and clearly know everything there is to know does not means others do. I don't see a reason not to have discussion about older cards at all.