I also don't like 'gardens' as well.
The computer buys them and all it does is make me have to as well just to possibly win.
I can't buy many other cards.
The pile also runs out quickly which counts as the 3 pile end.
The 'witch' card and the curses is makes isn't too bad.
I can live with that.
I does however make the curses run out which, pun not intended, also counts a the 3 pile ending.
With a real person that may not happen as much.
The bots also don't care about fun, just winning, unlike me.
Against double-Urchin is an extreme edge case; very rarely do decks open two attacks, and anything that doesn't is going to give you pretty slim odds of a $6 HT hand.
Double Ambassador is extremely common, and double Swindler or Swindler/$4 Attack (Marauder or Sea Hag) is pretty common as well. Most of them, especially double Amb, are probably more common than double Urchin.
@Stef: How is HT good at getting you to $6? If you open HT+Silver, you need both in hand (and not 3 Estates) to hit $6. Better than Silver/Silver, but still not really likely to want it "just" to hit $6.like this.
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I never realized this before, but there are 206 cards and 206 bones in the human body!
From now on, I'll refer to my collar bone as cellar bone.
Island. I must have played hundreds of games with it, but I don't think I've ever bought it as an opener (and as a non-opener, rarely) and been truly confident that it was the right play. I know the pros and cons but I have no real way to weigh them. I just rely on a vague estimate of its general power level compared to other $4s, and I tweak this very little depending on the board because I don't know where to start, even though good play would be very board-dependent. About the only thing I know is that it's a lousy way to hit $5, if that's key.
also, your proposition isn't correct. the game isn't just one turn, if your deck chokes 25% of all time, you get 75% sucess rate for one turn, 56% for two, and 42% for three. it's pretty likely that it will choke sooner or later, and then the 99% player has good chances to win.
Your opponent has (several) Rogues? If you're overdrawing your deck you could in fact put several Feasts in the trash in quick succession, slowing down his trashing attack and mildly junking his deck.
Though quite why he's using Rogue as an attack I'm not sure.
Here's a hint: it was for metagame purposes (that is, my opponent's deck was the primary reason).
that sounds like smugglers
3 duchies left in a duke game with no +buy, both players can draw their deck?
I'm not losing any sleep over it though, and it's not great for me to bash them, it just makes me sound like the worst person ever. I will have to count on you guys to bash them for me.
So I'm playing this game with some random guy, and I get into this situation.
I have a deck of roughly 20+cards, 2 of my 3 bishops collide and miss the shuffle, I trash a Rats to Bishop and then draw my 3rd Bishop. I thought it was unusual and a bit unlucky. I mentioned it in the chat, not complaining, just saying that it happened. And my opponent just couldn't understand why I bothered to say it. He said it wasn't interesting (I said that I mentioned it because it's unusual and interesting) and that if I always mention when I'm unlucky that people will think I'm a crybaby (his word). I told him I'm not complaining, merely stating that it happened, the same way I mentioned that in one game in a 50+card deck my 4 woodcutters came up in 1 hand. It's a fact and it's unusual so I mention it in the chat. It's conversation and since it's dominion related I thought maybe a dominion player might find it funny or something. Kind of ironically he inquired about the Ace of Spades in the "show more cards" button. What, am I supposed to find his comments interesting, but shut up about mine? I wasn't rude, I replied to his question explaining it's presence.
Is it really that unusual to chat to your opponent, or mention when something unlucky happens? I don't blame losses on luck. I would equally mention when my deck works out perfectly.
At this point a lot of people have made "it's just Dominion but with a little extra" so that's not so compelling anymore. Now I feel like the spin-off has to be more different. To qualify as a spin-off, you will have a deck that you build during the game; the rest is up in the air.
I don't think that fishing village is overpowered. Does anyone have access to the old stats on councilroom? As far as I can remember, the win rate with or without it was almost the same, at least the gap was way smaller than e.g. with swindler.
The more interesting topic is how a young witch bane changes a mirror for the second player.
Isn't that quite the same as a Moat?
Going to take a guess at what it's doing:
I think it's taking the number of players in the room but not playing - the number of people who are playing from that room (or something similar).
So, if 15 people in the room haven't got games, and there are 10 2-player games on (so 20 people playing), this gives -5 players. It's something daft like this, I guess.So if 15 people enter a room with -15 players, is it empty afterwards?
You guys are crazy, I'm positive this sort of thing can't be just put in a formula.
Earlier this month, there was a feature request for the Dominion Salvager extension to automatically have players play dead turns until they have identical hands (if all players are mutually agreed, of course). You can see the suggestion here. What follows is a lengthy (and sometimes heated) discussion about the merits of forcing identical starting hands. If you wish, you can jump to Donald X's response here.
This thread is now about trains?
I've heard good things about Trains, but haven't played it myself.
I know there's another thread about this, but this thread is for the poll. Please do not debate the point counter in this thread.
Yeah I see the argument that it frees your mind to focus on tactics, and I wouldn't want to limit the quality of opponents I could play if good players prefer not to play vpoff games. I guess I just like the additional challenge of having to mentally track numbers while simultaneously thinking about tactics, and I was wondering who else shares that opinion.
