Topic: What is your favorite village? (Read 24132 times)

Beyond Awesome · « **on:** April 25, 2013, 02:14:57 am »

I'm not a village idiot, but I love villages. Chaining actions is a lot of fun. So, I thought I would make a thread asking what everyone's favorite village is.

My favorite is Fishing Village. It is a bit overpowered for a village, if you ask me, but there is no doubt it is the ultimate engine building card.

Bandit Camp and Wandering Minstrel get honorable mentions. I love the spoils gaining of Bandit Camp, and I love how in some games this can actually be detrimental. For Wandering Minstrel, it offers both shifting and plus action. If you have no form of trashing, Minstrel is a decent substitute.

So, what is everyone's favorite village?

ashersky · « **Reply #1 on:** April 25, 2013, 02:19:39 am »

Shanty Town, of course.

ftl · « **Reply #2 on:** April 25, 2013, 02:24:56 am »

Fishing village is the best, but it's not my favorite. Too easy to just spam them and be okay.

Bandit Camp I have a soft spot for. Also Native Village.

jaybeez · « **Reply #3 on:** April 25, 2013, 02:49:48 am »

Probably Fishing, I love Durations and FV is just so powerful.

But that's the boring answer, so instead I'll talk about Festival which I don't think people think about often enough when they think of good villages. It's expensive for a village but it's also the only one that gives +$2. And the fact that it's a non-terminal that gives +Buy is not insignificant. It's a great enabler for powerful strategies like multi-Tac, Library/Watchtower, and Scrying Pool engines. It combos nicely with Menagerie and Minion. It's a good card, one that I used to underrate because it doesn't draw. But if the kingdom also has a card that offsets that disadvantage (like the six I listed, and plenty others too), Festival can be very strong.

Davio · « **Reply #4 on:** April 25, 2013, 03:14:59 am »

Fishing Village definitely.

The best for me, yes boring, but fantastic little workhorse.

I wish I could say Walled Village or something else, but alas no.

Qvist · « **Reply #5 on:** April 25, 2013, 03:30:28 am »

Fishing Village and Hamlet, I love powerful cheap villages. Also Crossroads if you like to call that a village.

Border Village and Worker's Village get honorable mentions.

brokoli · « **Reply #6 on:** April 25, 2013, 03:35:38 am »

Inn of course.
Then Border village and Mining village.
Then Hamlet and Crossroads.

Awaclus · « **Reply #7 on:** April 25, 2013, 03:59:27 am »

Border Village or Wandering Minstrel.

SCSN · « **Reply #8 on:** April 25, 2013, 04:09:57 am »

I love Worker's Village, Border Village, Farming Village and Fortress, in that order.

I absolutely hate Mining Village because of its ridiculous insecurity: after every play it needs to hear "no sweetheart, I do not intend to trash you" (but if you keep bugging me I'll eventually get tempted).

Lekkit · « **Reply #9 on:** April 25, 2013, 04:10:52 am »

Worker's Village. Just Fishing Village and a terminal draw doens't make an engine. Fishing Village, Wandering Minstrel, Hamlet and Border Village are also up there.

A Drowned Kernel · « **Reply #10 on:** April 25, 2013, 04:59:04 am »

Probably hamlet. FV is more powerful but there's so many fun things you can do with hamlet, and it's so easy to get a bunch of the little buggers.

I also kind of like Ruined Village for being the nastiest ruin to give opponents

Wingnut · « **Reply #11 on:** April 25, 2013, 05:26:42 am »

I can't decide between Inn and Shanty Town, both of which are nontraditional and are fun to try and play, especially as the only village on an engine board.

aaron0013 · « **Reply #12 on:** April 25, 2013, 07:27:18 am »

There's too many to choose from! The more I play with Squire (a sometimes village) the more I love it. But right now, my favorites are Border Village and Hamlet.

ashersky · « **Reply #13 on:** April 25, 2013, 07:34:09 am »

Actually, my favorite is whatever village is in Guilds!

Davio · « **Reply #14 on:** April 25, 2013, 07:52:14 am »

Quote from: ashersky on April 25, 2013, 07:34:09 am

Actually, my favorite is whatever village is in Guilds!

Ooh, I love speculation, would it have overspending tied into how many actions it gives?

ashersky · « **Reply #15 on:** April 25, 2013, 08:13:13 am »

Quote from: Davio on April 25, 2013, 07:52:14 am

Quote from: ashersky on April 25, 2013, 07:34:09 am
Actually, my favorite is whatever village is in Guilds!
Ooh, I love speculation, would it have overspending tied into how many actions it gives?

Maybe "During your buy phase, add one coin token to your coin mat for every two unused actions, rounded down."

Blueswan · « **Reply #16 on:** April 25, 2013, 08:29:45 am »

I have a soft spot for Farming Village.

DG · « **Reply #17 on:** April 25, 2013, 08:31:53 am »

Village.

Polk5440 · « **Reply #18 on:** April 25, 2013, 09:03:50 am »

Mining Village. I love the option value it provides.

Second place would be Border Village, I think. I like that even after you've used it's on gain ability and it's in you deck, it's still usually better than a regular Village because it costs $6 (so it's better for TFB).

philosophyguy · « **Reply #19 on:** April 25, 2013, 09:17:49 am »

Worker's Village. FV is too easy to rush, and +Buy in a Village should never be overlooked.

Someone earlier said Festival doesn't get enough love. The problem with Festival is that it usually competes with the $5s you need to make your engine work. And, because Festival is your Village, your engine can't come together at all until you get enough Festivals in the deck, which really slows your tempo.

andwilk · « **Reply #20 on:** April 25, 2013, 09:24:39 am »

Worker's Village... It's your plus action and buy wrapped up in one neat little package. What more could an engine builder ask for?

I think the reason I like it best is that it is useful in all situations and is always better than a vanilla village. This isn't always the case with other $2/3/4 villages and $5+ villages start to get expensive. Fishing Village is no doubt very strong but in some games it is nothing more than a nerfed Merchant Ship.

Honorable Mention: Hamlet, Wandering Minstrel

LastFootnote · « **Reply #21 on:** April 25, 2013, 09:38:33 am »

After looking through the list, it turns out that I'm really not in love with any of the village cards. Walled Village is probably my favorite just because it's the only village I think is worth buying outside of an engine deck.

heron · « **Reply #22 on:** April 25, 2013, 10:23:36 am »

Native village, by far. It just has the most tricks you can do with it.

markusin · « **Reply #23 on:** April 25, 2013, 01:16:51 pm »

There are so many good villages. Even vanilla Village and Shanty Town are cool just because it costs $3. For me though, my favourite is a toss up between Worker's Village and Bandit Camp. Worker's Village gives +buy so I don't have to buy Market or something over Gold, and Bandit camp is like +2action/+1card/+3coins in a total draw deck. I also like Festival. Having Festival and draw-to-x cards line up is such a satisfying feeling.

math · « **Reply #24 on:** April 25, 2013, 01:41:40 pm »

My favorite is definitely Wandering Minstrel. I just love dropping all the non-engine parts off the top of my deck so my Torturer can draw another Wandering Minstrel and Torturer reliably. It's also definitely worth spamming, even if you don't have enough terminal draw for your engine yet.

Border Village comes in second. It's so great getting two engine parts at once, and it works extremely well with trash for benefit.

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