So I recently got my copy of dark ages, and did something I felt was fantastic. I just love Dark Ages thus far. I was playing the "Peasants" recommended setup using Seaside and Dark Ages: Death Cart, Feodum, Poor House, Urchin, Vagrant / Fishing Village, Haven, Island, Lookout, Warehouse.
Opened Warehouse/Fishing village, then bought two urchins on turns 3 and 4. I got another urchin and fishing village quickly. Pretty quickly, I was playing Mercenaries, and trashing all my money, so I could chain poor houses together using Fishing Villages for the win. One problem, I didn't have any +Buy. Buuuuut, Death Cart was out, so the Ruins pile was there. Guess who spent $10 on a Ruined Market??? [[this is the play I thought was just fantastic, how often do you spend $10 on a 0 cost card, and even begin to think it was a good choice?]] It turns out it was a crucial buy, and that helped me keep things running while pickup up provinces almost every turn. I won easily and joy abounded.
I trashed some cards out with my mercenary, but I roughly had a deck that looked like this, 4 Poor Houses, 2 Mercenaries (was 3), 3 fishing villages, 1 vagrant, 3 islands, and I trashed my 1 warehouse since I was getting hit by mercenaries so often that I couldn't afford to start with a 2 card hand, even if they were nice cards. I never touched Death Cart, Lookout, Feodum, or Havens.
Has anyone else played this board? What happened? How did you play it?
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Topic: I'm playing dark ages! "peasants" recommended set (Read 1042 times)