I posted a few weeks back about how my wife and I have started playing Dominion and love it. I read the strategy here on this site about the base set and found the advice excellent. I then posted a thread on this forum about additional advice and got a superb set of insight on how to play, where to play online and how to practice. I then taught my wife some of the tricks I learned...and we're both pretty good at base set now.
Now, this weekend, I make the purchase of Intrigue. I've been playing Base+Intrigue online a little this week to try and learn the set.
What an exciting time to be discovering a brand new game, one expansion at a time!
I read all the "card recaps" for Intrigue and found them interesting. One of them, I could not get to work well. The "Minion chain" that is preached in one of the articles, did not work for me. In particular, the Saboteur was ruining my chain and then I couldn't get the draw to keep the chain going. It was also really hard to judge how much money to buy and when with the strategy.
Is Minion really the strongest card in the set? Is there a more in-depth article on how to make Minion work?
The card article on Saboteur makes it seems like the card is pretty random and only useful early, but the card was killing me and seems like the Witch, as in, if it is on the board, you better buy two and try to attack more often than your opponent. Torturer of course, is the same way right? I won an online game by spamming Torturer a lot. It seems like the best defense against Torturer is to do it against your opponent too? Then maybe Library? Any advice on when Torturer is a "must by"?
Are there more in-depth articles about Intrigue+Base Set games?
My thanks in advance for any advice here you care to share about Intrigue. It looks like a great expansion!