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General Discussion / Re: Favorite Webcomics
« on: October 31, 2012, 06:57:02 pm »
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Dominion: Dark Ages Previews / Re: Dark Ages Preview #5: Necropolis, Overgrown Estate, Hovel
« on: August 11, 2012, 01:13:54 am »
If u miss your nomad camp/ peddler open, then at least u scored a lab hehe
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Dominion: Dark Ages Previews / Re: Dark Ages Preview #4: Rats, Pillage, Spoils
« on: August 09, 2012, 11:16:59 pm »
is there some kind of scout joke im not aware of?
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Dominion: Dark Ages Previews / Re: Dark Ages Preview #4: Rats, Pillage, Spoils
« on: August 09, 2012, 11:13:31 pm »
People keep talking about "rats + another trasher"
Rats doesn't combo with chapel btw... its the same speed as just opening chapel/-
You go rats when you can trash a $4 card for bonus benefit e.g. apprentice bonus damage, or remodel into GM, or reach peddlers really fast then remodel those into plats etc.etc.etc.
Rats doesn't combo with chapel btw... its the same speed as just opening chapel/-
You go rats when you can trash a $4 card for bonus benefit e.g. apprentice bonus damage, or remodel into GM, or reach peddlers really fast then remodel those into plats etc.etc.etc.
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General Discussion / Re: Anybody got Diablo 3 yet?
« on: May 16, 2012, 07:24:19 pm »
Co-op is really fun. Me and 2 friends (barb, me monk,WD) ran through normal in 8-9hours. We pooled together items on boss kills so nothing goes to waste.
Single player is unbearably slow IMHO. Especially if you're a Mage or Demon hunter... ranged damage in general is really weak and you never pick up exactly what you need.
Single player is unbearably slow IMHO. Especially if you're a Mage or Demon hunter... ranged damage in general is really weak and you never pick up exactly what you need.
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Dominion General Discussion / Re: Multi Player Collusion
« on: May 02, 2012, 09:48:35 pm »
Pumping up cities or trade route.
Generally if 2 players both take high-variance strategies against 1 player hes pretty screwed.
e.g. 2 players zerging treasure maps really cuts down the odds in a 3p game.
Generally if 2 players both take high-variance strategies against 1 player hes pretty screwed.
e.g. 2 players zerging treasure maps really cuts down the odds in a 3p game.
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Dominion General Discussion / Re: What is your favorite Dominion Downer?
« on: February 15, 2012, 10:23:49 pm »
Swinder hits my tactician
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Other Games / Re: What other games do you enjoy playing?
« on: February 01, 2012, 05:10:04 pm »
The best game me and my mates play is an oldie (1998 mensa select winner)
Spy alley =D
Spy alley =D
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Dominion Articles / Re: Updating the Top 5 lists
« on: December 14, 2011, 07:50:14 pm »
Diamond would definitely make gold underpowered.
To say "cellar is bad" doesnt mean anything on its own. It has to be worse than other cards available in the game.
The only way to compare the merit of a card is with other cards that exist.
To say "cellar is bad" doesnt mean anything on its own. It has to be worse than other cards available in the game.
The only way to compare the merit of a card is with other cards that exist.
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Dominion General Discussion / Re: Helping your opponent - that bad?
« on: December 10, 2011, 06:02:33 pm »
I challenge your presupposition that governor is mediocre. I think its one of the best cards out there and often build around it as my star card.
http://councilroom.com/win_rate_diff_accum.html?cards=Cost%3D%3D5%26%26%20Cards%3E2%2C%20Governor
Take a look here, councilroom on the otherhand is definitely the worst of these drawers because you often draw dead (can only play treasures post action) whilst he draws live (pre action) and have better success combining cantrips.
+1card each helps him more than you.
http://councilroom.com/win_rate_diff_accum.html?cards=Cost%3D%3D5%26%26%20Cards%3E2%2C%20Governor
Take a look here, councilroom on the otherhand is definitely the worst of these drawers because you often draw dead (can only play treasures post action) whilst he draws live (pre action) and have better success combining cantrips.
+1card each helps him more than you.
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2011 / Re: Schedule and Results: 2011 DominionStrategy.com Championships
« on: December 02, 2011, 09:00:09 am »
Gardens division papaHav (4) vs Sinfrax (2)
Game1 papaHav 33-21
http://dominion.isotropic.org/gamelog/201112/02/game-20111202-051511-aa5b3430.html
Game2 Sinfrax 44-38
http://dominion.isotropic.org/gamelog/201112/02/game-20111202-052344-e8da648c.html
Game3 papaHav 36-21
http://dominion.isotropic.org/gamelog/201112/02/game-20111202-053203-4daacfae.html
Game4 Sinfrax 62-54
http://dominion.isotropic.org/gamelog/201112/02/game-20111202-054801-042b3032.html
Game5 papaHav 39-37 (curses split!)
http://dominion.isotropic.org/gamelog/201112/02/game-20111202-054048-37e846d8.html
Game6 papaHav 36-22
http://dominion.isotropic.org/gamelog/201112/02/game-20111202-055546-26bc0be7.html
Game1 papaHav 33-21
http://dominion.isotropic.org/gamelog/201112/02/game-20111202-051511-aa5b3430.html
Game2 Sinfrax 44-38
http://dominion.isotropic.org/gamelog/201112/02/game-20111202-052344-e8da648c.html
Game3 papaHav 36-21
http://dominion.isotropic.org/gamelog/201112/02/game-20111202-053203-4daacfae.html
Game4 Sinfrax 62-54
http://dominion.isotropic.org/gamelog/201112/02/game-20111202-054801-042b3032.html
Game5 papaHav 39-37 (curses split!)
http://dominion.isotropic.org/gamelog/201112/02/game-20111202-054048-37e846d8.html
Game6 papaHav 36-22
http://dominion.isotropic.org/gamelog/201112/02/game-20111202-055546-26bc0be7.html
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2011 / Re: 2011 DominionStrategy.com Championships Rules
« on: November 21, 2011, 09:23:46 pm »
What if shipping the prize costs more than the prize itself =[
- Sydneysider
- Sydneysider
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2011 / Re: 2011 DominionStrategy.com Championships Registration
« on: November 21, 2011, 09:08:52 pm »
1) papaHav
2) GMT +11 (Sydney)
2) GMT +11 (Sydney)
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Puzzles and Challenges / Re: When would you not take all your Coppers into hand with Counting House?
« on: November 15, 2011, 06:02:49 pm »
You draw all your coppers but one, and fire a loan at the last treasure in your deck.
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Dominion Articles / Re: Updating the Top 5 lists
« on: November 03, 2011, 01:40:55 am »
Just to clean up the debate a little
Ultra powerful cards when used well:
Outpost, Mint, Bank, Forge, Venture, all the ?VP (vineyard...), all the +VP (bishop...)
Weak cards even when used well:
Mine, Mandarin, Harvest, Cache, Governor, Explorer, Transmute, Adventurer etc.
"best" and "worst" looks at other factors.
Not just powerful, but broadly useful (caravan), "luckbox factor" (treasure map), takes a long time to play (pawn, forge), people play it badly (village), whether there is unfair impact to 2nd player (cutpurse)... etc.
Raw crushing$$$power is just one factor that clearly belongs to enabled bank/outpost.
Ultra powerful cards when used well:
Outpost, Mint, Bank, Forge, Venture, all the ?VP (vineyard...), all the +VP (bishop...)
Weak cards even when used well:
Mine, Mandarin, Harvest, Cache, Governor, Explorer, Transmute, Adventurer etc.
"best" and "worst" looks at other factors.
Not just powerful, but broadly useful (caravan), "luckbox factor" (treasure map), takes a long time to play (pawn, forge), people play it badly (village), whether there is unfair impact to 2nd player (cutpurse)... etc.
Raw crushing$$$power is just one factor that clearly belongs to enabled bank/outpost.
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Puzzles and Challenges / Re: Turn 2 Gold
« on: October 19, 2011, 10:05:57 pm »
I'm already holding the other 5 cards.
Opponent buys noble brigand, I reshuffle and reveal tunnel.
Opponent buys noble brigand, I reshuffle and reveal tunnel.
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Puzzles and Challenges / Re: Turn 2 Gold
« on: October 19, 2011, 09:01:36 pm »
Turn 1: Buy tunnel, opponent buys noble brigand and reveals it.
=D
Technically turn 2 hasn't happened yet...
=D
Technically turn 2 hasn't happened yet...
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Dominion General Discussion / Re: Cards we love! (and why)
« on: October 18, 2011, 11:34:39 pm »
Best Design -- Mint
Buy/Use synergy that puts hinterlands to shame.
Brute force card in some decks, in others, fastest refiner in the game (see puzzle #2!)
Most Fun -- Bishop
Who said we couldn't race in peace? whilst helping each other?
or conversely, my engine will crush yours even with bishops helping ability =]
Most Powerful Yet Underrated -- Outpost
Sure the downside is obvious and horrible - a clumsy expensive terminal that does nothing for you this turn (i.e. just like saboteur...) might as well spend 5$ on a curse?
Wielded poorly leads to alot of extra pearl divers/silvers... but what part of "take an extra turn" doesn't make you look twice?
Definitely qualifies for both "Most powerful" and "...yet underrated" in my book... it more than doubles the pace of some refined engines
Important -- City, Embargo
These two cards build an unparalleled meta-game in most kingdoms.. Can you play in a way that makes your mid-game unpredictable to embargo? (i.e. not open workers/traderoute on a peddler board) Will my opponent skip an opening potion if I opened embargo? 2nd player can even have an advantage in these meta-games.
Meanwhile city is the only card I've ever bought as a bluff and not even used the extra action... =]
Buy/Use synergy that puts hinterlands to shame.
Brute force card in some decks, in others, fastest refiner in the game (see puzzle #2!)
Most Fun -- Bishop
Who said we couldn't race in peace? whilst helping each other?
or conversely, my engine will crush yours even with bishops helping ability =]
Most Powerful Yet Underrated -- Outpost
Sure the downside is obvious and horrible - a clumsy expensive terminal that does nothing for you this turn (i.e. just like saboteur...) might as well spend 5$ on a curse?
Wielded poorly leads to alot of extra pearl divers/silvers... but what part of "take an extra turn" doesn't make you look twice?
Definitely qualifies for both "Most powerful" and "...yet underrated" in my book... it more than doubles the pace of some refined engines
Important -- City, Embargo
These two cards build an unparalleled meta-game in most kingdoms.. Can you play in a way that makes your mid-game unpredictable to embargo? (i.e. not open workers/traderoute on a peddler board) Will my opponent skip an opening potion if I opened embargo? 2nd player can even have an advantage in these meta-games.
Meanwhile city is the only card I've ever bought as a bluff and not even used the extra action... =]
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Puzzles and Challenges / Re: Think outside the box: what's missing?
« on: September 27, 2011, 10:05:27 pm »
Don't forget gOlem =]
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Dominion General Discussion / Re: What would make you go Village/Smithy?
« on: August 24, 2011, 12:56:31 am »
guided: "+buy" is great advice and a common mistake.
Epoch: in the presence of weak trashing, you may not get the critical deck speed to catch up to bigmoneyult. +draw can sometimes push a weakly trashed deck across that threshold to max speed (draw whole deck each turn)
e.g 1# remake/silver open, pick up villages on trashing turns, with an endgame powerhouse like bank, mint or hoard/harem (or all of them!). remake bank-> province as coup de grace
e.g. 2# Forge is greatly buffed by increased handsize. If forge is the only trasher, and very promising endgame such as GM/conspirator for an action chain, i would open Big money smithy to get a forge, village/smithy midgame into whatever endgame
e.g. 3# most KC decks make me wanna chain actions over silver/gold. Certain attacks or decent +$ will need +draw to chain if there is no very good trasher to reach that game-ending critical mass of attacks.
weak trash/kc with saboteur/festival/pirate ship are great candidates for village smithy earlygame
thats about it.
Epoch: in the presence of weak trashing, you may not get the critical deck speed to catch up to bigmoneyult. +draw can sometimes push a weakly trashed deck across that threshold to max speed (draw whole deck each turn)
e.g 1# remake/silver open, pick up villages on trashing turns, with an endgame powerhouse like bank, mint or hoard/harem (or all of them!). remake bank-> province as coup de grace
e.g. 2# Forge is greatly buffed by increased handsize. If forge is the only trasher, and very promising endgame such as GM/conspirator for an action chain, i would open Big money smithy to get a forge, village/smithy midgame into whatever endgame
e.g. 3# most KC decks make me wanna chain actions over silver/gold. Certain attacks or decent +$ will need +draw to chain if there is no very good trasher to reach that game-ending critical mass of attacks.
weak trash/kc with saboteur/festival/pirate ship are great candidates for village smithy earlygame
thats about it.
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Dominion General Discussion / Re: Early remake, coppers -> trash or estates -> 3 cost
« on: July 18, 2011, 10:28:08 pm »
Played a game recently opening remake/pawn-> peddlers.
Remaking copper took the cake here over estates since there were no 3$ actions and silver just clogs my deck as much as estates (with regards to lifting 5 peddlers at once)
Remake peddler-> plat.
Still prefer cleaning copper!
Remaking copper took the cake here over estates since there were no 3$ actions and silver just clogs my deck as much as estates (with regards to lifting 5 peddlers at once)
Remake peddler-> plat.
Still prefer cleaning copper!
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Puzzles and Challenges / Re: 10 Grand markets by turn 5.
« on: June 28, 2011, 09:01:40 pm »
I'll back base as a clear favourite here =]
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Puzzles and Challenges / 10 Grand markets by turn 5.
« on: June 28, 2011, 08:15:17 pm »
In a solitaire game, find a way to have 10 Grand Markets in your deck by the end of your fifth turn. (Outpost and Possession turns are included in this total.)
You may assume that you have perfect “shuffle luck”: i.e., you may rearrange your deck in any way you wish after shuffling.
As this is decidedly easier than 8 Colonies in puzzle #1, the following cards are prohibited:
Chancellor
Ironworks
Watchtower
Throneroom
Bridge
Kings court
(All the puzzle #1 cards!)
You may assume that you have perfect “shuffle luck”: i.e., you may rearrange your deck in any way you wish after shuffling.
As this is decidedly easier than 8 Colonies in puzzle #1, the following cards are prohibited:
Chancellor
Ironworks
Watchtower
Throneroom
Bridge
Kings court
(All the puzzle #1 cards!)
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Variants and Fan Cards / Re: 2x2 team game
« on: June 26, 2011, 09:48:30 pm »
This is pretty fun with no change in rules (using a medal tally for each team)
Although swindler and spy were alot more powerful than usual because its possible to actually help ur teammate
Although swindler and spy were alot more powerful than usual because its possible to actually help ur teammate
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Variants and Fan Cards / Re: Really bad card ideas
« on: June 22, 2011, 01:22:38 am »
Map to El dorado: $4
Trash this and any other copies in your hand. Counts as an immediate win for each copy trashed after the first.
Trash this and any other copies in your hand. Counts as an immediate win for each copy trashed after the first.