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Dominion General Discussion / Re: Dark Ages + Base Set Kingdom - Strategy Thoughts

« on: April 25, 2019, 04:52:47 pm »

Also, if the decision is between Gold and Bandit Camp, they're equally vulnerable to Knights. At least if your Bandit Camp gets trashed you might still have a Spoils or two lying around, but if your Gold is trashed you're screwed! Not to mention that the Bandit Camp can be upgraded into a Province by Graverobber during the endgame which is a huge advantage over Gold.

Exactly, this was the problem I noticed--I ended up trashing my opponent's Bandit Camps (so, he bought more) and my opponent trashed my golds (of which I bought more). I honestly don't think it would have made a big difference either way--they can both be trashed by Knights, and they can both be pulled from the trash by Graverobber.

Pros/cons for Bandit Camp: draw is more consistent than gold, spoils are temporary (could be pro or con), spoils don't get trashed by opposing knight, bandit camp is cheaper than gold, takes an extra shuffle to see the spoils once you play bandit camp (this is the main con that I didn't like), can be upgraded by graverobber into province, can't be upgraded into province by remodel

Pros/cons for Gold: get it right away to use next shuffle, permanently in deck (pro or con), can get trashed by opposing knight, can be upgraded into province by remodel but not by graverobber (I don't think I realized initially that graverobber can't upgrade gold, so I bought a remodel just to upgrade gold)


I think I agree that Bandit Camp may be slightly better since waiting an extra shuffle might not have been that big of a deal. I also wouldn't have had to buy a remodel to upgrade gold since Graverobber can upgrade Bandit Camp into Province.

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Dominion General Discussion / Dark Ages + Base Set Kingdom - Strategy Thoughts

« on: April 24, 2019, 06:21:14 pm »

Hi all, I was playing a Dark Ages + Base Set Kingdom in ranked recently and am curious on how you all would have played it. Here is the kingdom:

Urchin
Feodum
Wandering Minstrel
Bandit Camp
Knights
Graverobber
Junk Dealer
Scavenger (or Marauder maybe? We never bought this)
Bureaucrat
Remodel

It took me and my opponent somewhere around 30-40 turns (we're both ranked in high 40s--not highly ranked but decent). I don't remember the whole game but do remember most of the major points.

Opening: I opened Urchin + Silver and my opponent opened double Urchin. I was hoping to be able to get a Knight the next shuffle and use the attack property of the Knight to let me trash my Urchin to get a Mercenary.

Next phase: My opponent and I each get Knights to counter each others Knights. We both use Mercenary to trash most of our starting cards. We each buy Wandering Minstrels with most of our $4 hands and Bandit Camps with our $5 hand--in retrospect, the Wandering Minstrel may not have even been that great here since it kept discarding our silvers. My opponent gets 1 gold and spikes 2 provinces. I buy 1-2 golds, at least one of which gets trashed by a Knight. I buy Urchin on $3, hoping to more reliably draw my Knights--I figure silver is not great since it gets discarded by wandering minstrel and doesn't help me play my knights more often.

Next phase: Most of our Knights are trashed by other Knights, and I realize that I can buy Graverobber to get them back. All of our starting cards are trashed at this point, and we both have very little economy outside of spoils. I get Graverobber first and get back a couple of knights, which I am able to play each turn with my small deck--I trash some of my opponent's silvers, Wandering Minstrels, and Bandit Camps. My opponent realizes what's happening and gets a Graverobber a few turns after I get it. My opponent gets a bureaucrat some point around this phase to try to get more treasure in his deck.

Next phase: As I have a Knight's advantage by being the first to realize I can get them back from the trash, I maintain my deck contents better than my opponent. I now get some gold (now that it won't easily be trashed) and start buying a couple of provinces. I notice that piles are getting low (knights, wandering minstrel, and urchin, I think?), so instead of trying to get more gold at this point, I buy Remodel to Remodel my golds into provinces. My opponent couldn't quite keep up with his total economy and is not able to get enough treasure to buy a province.

Ending: I don't even remember quite how it ended, but I did end up winning. I either got the last couple provinces or emptied the piles when I was ahead in points.


My thoughts:
1. Knights + Graverobber is very strong; getting the first Graverobber and using it to get back Knights is what let me win in the end.
2. I didn't realize this until posting this, but I and my opponent missed the opportunity of getting Feodum to let it be trashed by an opposing Knight--a card with a decent on-trash benefit is usually worth taking in a game like this, isn't it?
3. Was it worth getting gold at all? Spoils cost 0 and don't get trashed by Knights, but Bandit Camps cost 5 and do get trashed by Knights. I thought about pulling Bandit Camps out of the trash with Graverobber but thought it might have been too slow to rely on Spoils only for economy.
4. Is Junk Dealer still worth getting alongside other 2+ card trashers like Mercenary and/or was 1-2 Junk Dealer the better trasher to go for here? Neither of us bought any the entire game.
5. I don't think this would have been better, but would it have been better to not trash all the copper here so that there is a lower chance of good cards getting trashed?

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Dominion General Discussion / Re: Are promos worth it?

« on: April 23, 2019, 05:32:19 pm »

It's my birthday today and someone gave me $50. I don't have any of the promos yet, and all of them together cost $43 in the bgg store (The 8 kingdom cards for $5 each and Summon for $3). So it's kind of obvious what I have to get.

shipping included?

I bought 4 promos from BGG last month--I live in Southern California in the US, and my total shipping was $3.86. That was in addition to $5 per kingdom card.

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Dominion General Discussion / Re: Interview with Donald X.

« on: March 08, 2019, 11:38:26 am »

@ipofanes To further clarify what crj is saying, Donald's first use of "Inheritance" refers to a card that changes the type of other cards--Donald says a card like that is fine provided that all copies of a card are the same at all times. However, the second "Inheritance" is an example of such a card that changes whether or not all copies of a card are the same at all times (e.g., my inherited estate is a certain card and your inherited estate is a different card--this can result in problems with cards that change the types of other cards).

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Dominion General Discussion / Re: Current Cost for Dominion (all Editions and Promos) (amazon)

« on: January 29, 2019, 01:11:44 pm »

Total cost of expansions on eBay ("Buy it Now" for new copies; includes a 10 set bundle with everything except for Dark Ages, Empires, and Renaissance) - $357.03