Lightning Edit: Goons (tuned for the matchup) might be the best BM against this?()
Dominion is hard!
But is it NP-Hard?
Umm... yes?
Okay, I let her get 6 Provinces.I usually play against my mom, who buys a Province whenever she hits $8. This forces me to green earlier, thus possibly making Scout better in my eyes.
If there's a source of +Buy on the board, you should be letting her get the first 5-6 Provinces while continuing to build your engine, then win by snagging all the remaining green in a couple of turns, after she has inevitably stalled.
Now I need 2 Provinces, 8 Duchies and 4 Estates (seeing as she didn't trash her estates). I can totally produce $64 coins and 14 buys in 'a couple of turns.'
I still think you should just make a few duplicates, name it "Roulette" and use a tiny roulette wheel to determine which to pick. Shouting "Rien ne va plus" when doing so should also be mandatory.
But it's very much a niche card, one of the nichest. Which is both the problem and one of the reasons it's still better than The Card Which Must Not Be Named; thief is actively bad in 95% of games, but in the remaining 5% it's golden. TCWMNBN, on the other hand, is nothing in 95% of games, and slightly better than nothing in the remaining 5%.
Here's my 5 ways to win Twilight Struggle:
- Win by having the most VP after final scoring
- Degrade DEFCON to 1 on your opponent's turn
- Control Europe when it's being scored
- Get to 20 VP
- Win the Space Race
The last is actually false, but it would be fun if there was more incentive to space things other than making sure the event doesn't trigger this turn.
You forgot one, play the 'How about a nice game of chess?' card when you are more than 10 points ahead.
If it's intended that you work together, the puzzle becomes more trivial than easy. Just let your opponent buy nine Chapels and buy the tenth on turn 16. Or whatever distribution of Chapels, and possibly Silver, works out. Well, maybe not trivial, but i don't see what the base limitation is for, then.
With any base-only kingdom that includes Chapel (two player), empty the Chapel pile in exactly 16 turns, without trashing anything.
I am an Action card. I am in your hand. I am NOT a Reaction card. I do, however, reveal myself when you play a different Action card, and then something happens to me (the "something happens to me" part is to rule out things like Shanty Town and Menagerie). That is, I am an Action card that is "triggered" by something else, even though I am not a Reaction card. I think that's weird, which is why I'm making a puzzle out of it. Maybe this card should really be a Reaction card, not sure. And is there more than 1 answer? (I can only think of 1 answer.)
I suspect this version of Feast makes infinite turns possible, but I'll have to think about it to be sure.
Do you mean infinite turns or infinite actions within a turn? Infinite turns definitely not; as the cards that give extra turns never care if they themselves are in play or anything like that.
I'd pay at least $2 for that card, especially in a game with no other trashing.
I'm not sure what would be the most abusive use of Labyrinth. Rebuild?
