embargo says when you gain not buyPlayed a game yesterday IRL where I went for a Bandit Camp and Hunting Grounds and such deck and after I had bought a few Bandit Camps my opponent Embargoed Spoils...how did i miss that!?!As in, "How did I not realise that could happen"? Because Spoils isn't a supply pile, so (a) you can't Embargo it, and (b) you don't buy Spoils, so you wouldn't be cursed for gaining them even if there were some way to Embargo them.
So, I have a question. For the kingdom design challenge it says that we can build a kingdom from any of the expansions. Dark Ages is not mentioned as being excluded. Can we build kingdoms that include Dark Ages cards? Will there be a way to allow the top two players to play these kingdoms?
"What Victory card costs $5 and gives you 3 VP?"
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Answer this, what is the best $2 card in Dominion?
YW/Tunnel was the number 33 or so opening. And probably the best non Witch, Mountebank, Masquerade, or Chapel.
I know Mint/Fools Gold was higher. #3 or #4 maybe?
I designed a card which incorporated this feature about 5 posts up, made it 1VP + 2VP per empty supply pile for $6 (plus a Band of Misfits-like trashing effect); but it cost $1 more for each empty supply pile, to reflect the rising prices of resources in Power Grid. If it's going to be just a victory card then I would suggest 2+1, at $5+$1X (or even 3+1 for $6 + $1X), where X is the number of empty piles.
QuoteVenture -> Abenteuer: Although it is a possible literal translation this is really missing any resemblance to the intended meaning of "risky investment". Translated back to English it would be "adventure" which quite obviously is inappropriate. Something along the lines of "Wagnis" or "Spekulation" might be better, but I'm still not really happy with those.Yes, but it fits the picture where the bored King is about to receive an engaging (or not) story.
Anyone want to rethink the strategy here as a 3 player kingdom?
Hi PitzerMike,
First of all.... sorry for you you had to endure such language. Fortunately this kind of behavior is extremely rare with level 40+ players. I think the sensible response is not to take it too seriously and try to ignore such a person. Eventually just play someone else. Any more energy you spend on it is a waste.
About the game... Basically I think you played very well. Your opponent did not.
Fishing Village/Moneylender would definitely be my opening as well. Quarry is not even considered and I really don't like Silver either. You will need the actions soon (Witch if you can, but courtyard is also very good) and money-wise fishing village isn't much worse then silver. Sure, I can construct some shuffles where silver gets me to $5 and silver doesn't (CCMEE - CCC?E - CC), but not too many and there even are some edge cases where it's the other way around (CC?EE - CCCCE - CM). More importantly: hitting $5 is quite likely already. I want the option to add a courtyard, and silver makes that awkward.
The next decision is on your turn 3, where you get a potion and I once again agree. But this one is trickier then the opening. Having the fishing village in play, you're very likely to get a witch next turn anyway. It should make you lose the curse split, but getting the universities started is easily important enough. If you would have gotten to $4 on a CCCCE hand, I think I'd go for courtyard though. Getting the witch cannot be postponed to turn 7/8.
Your opponent then makes a game-losing mistake by playing courtyard on turn 3. Courtyard can somewhat 'prevent' a clash of two terminals on turn 3, but only if the other terminal doesn't draw. It makes a) his witch miss the reshuffle, b) your curse miss the reshuffle, c) his t4 buy miss the reshuffle. He has nothing to compensate for this whatsoever. If he plays the witch on t3, he may very well get to $3 anyway (fishing village & moneylender) and even if he doesn't (pearl diver & stables) he's much better of then he is now. Now he has a reshuffle containing a fishing village and a courtyard only, and to make it worse he has to draw two cards dead (which is what happened to his courtyard).
I would not even have played the courtyard turn 3 if I didn't have witch in hand (!).
After this the game is basicly over, unless some bizarre luck / bad luck hits either one of you, and it doesn't.
But to comment on the possibilities after turn 9...
You definately do not need to turn to buying silvers. In fact they would still be bad. (bad as in rather have nothing then silver). You still want to decrease the deck-cycle, to maximize use of your universities. I would probably even add courtyards over fishing villages on less-then-$5 turns. Your cities will draw enough cards soon to hit gold anyway, and platinum soon after. Being the only player that can get >1 card/turn, you're in complete control of the game.
Your opening is just about correct. The silver's long term help doesn't help enough to warrant that short term gain. FV is just too helpful in the cycling of this sort of deck.
With that said, I don't really like the T3 potion that much. I feel like you should have grabbed witch, FV, or courtyards only as this would help win you the curse war, as this is of main importance as there's no way to trash this. Also with so much cycling with this sort of deck, you'd likely still be able to grab universities/cities at a good rate when you transition over.
Quarry is no good here, it's pretty useless in a deck here. There's just no +buy or $6/$7 actions you'd want.
His anger probably stems from some really bad shuffle luck. Never gets to connect a single FV with +cards.
I say DOOK-ee. Always have, always will. I mean, a DOOK-ee is run by a DOOK, so why would I call it a DUTCH-ee? I don't call it a KONG-dom.
