Dominion Strategy Forum
Dominion => Dominion General Discussion => Topic started by: LastFootnote on November 15, 2011, 07:46:43 pm
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It seems to me that a lot of the Hinterlands cards have decent synergy with Counting House. Cache and Ill-Gotten Gains are obvious. They gain you Copper. Oasis and Inn work like miniature Warehouses, allowing you to freely discard Copper which you can then put back in your hand. In addition, a well-timed Inn gain may allow you to put a Counting house back into your deck when most of your cards are in your discard pile. Cartographer can potentially move several Copper cards from your deck to your discard pile. Mandarin and Scheme can both allow you to save your Counting House until you're close to the end of your deck, although with Scheme you need to play the Counting House first. Stables both puts Copper into your discard pile and can draw Counting House.
What's your take on these interactions. Are any of them worthwhile?
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I think that it's generally true that Hinterland has strenghtened some weaker cards from earlier sets.
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Coppersmith + ill-Gotten Gains is a really strong combo. I never tried with counting House.
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A few of the combinations you mentioned, like the oasis, just aren't strong enough but the inn works fine with a counting house.
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...although with Scheme you need to play the Counting House first.
Nope. It will work if you play Scheme then Counting House. Now I want to try this!
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...although with Scheme you need to play the Counting House first.
Nope. It will work if you play Scheme then Counting House. Now I want to try this!
Let me rephrase. Unlike Mandarin, Scheme forces you to play Counting House in order to carry it to your next turn, which you may not want to do if you have a better terminal Action to play. That's what I meant by 'first'.
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Oh yes, good point.
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I just played a game with Cache and Counting House (and nothing else exciting), and decided to give it a go. It worked to the tune of 5 Provinces and 2 Duchies in 16 turns, not earth-shattering or anything but quite respectable.
This isn't the first time I've won when buying Cache, but I'm pretty sure it's the first time that I actually sought Cache out as an integral part of my strategy, and had it work.