Dominion

[TroyXavier]

Tried Alchemy this weekend, and it was fun, but the infitine loop you can get in with Alchemist, potion, and a card that lets you return one treasure to the top of your deck is crazy.

 

[Celisasu]

I've played quite a few games. It's a lot of fun. I have more defeats than wins sadly although I've been informed that I can be annoying at times due to my habit of handing curses to people(I tried that experiment where you wipe your deck down to almost nothing, buy curses, and then use the ambassador to hand them to the other players). It's great the sheer variety of things you can do. The only problem I see is that sometimes if the game has a 5 gold cost card that falls under "must have" you can end up with a situation where the person who gets 5/2 gold in the first cycle of their deck will have an advantage over players who end up with a 4/3 gold draw for the first deck cycle. Still this is a minor quibble and the game is a ton of fun.

Just ordered it and it's expansions(minus alchemy as it wasn't available) from Warstore last week. I'm hoping to get some more of my friends into it just like one group of my friends got me into it.

 

[RigaMortus2]

Lots of pages, so this might have been said already, but...

You can play Dominion ONLINE and for FREE... Go here:

MU-Spiele * BrettspielWelt - Online Portal für Brettspiele

Click INSTANT PLAY...

Enter a Log-in name of your choice, no need for a password...

It is a german site, though the game rules and cards are in english, but servers and such are german. Some players are german too, but everyone I played with spoke, errr, typed in English

Hours of fun...

Takes some getting used to since it is online and all. Players seem to want to play fast-paced games. I've been in games that look as long as 20 minutes, some that took as long as 45 minutes.

Most times you'll play heads up, one on one. Sometimes you can find a 3 or 4 person game.

Lots of good players. I like the game and have yet to win online (tied once though!)

 

[Neonchameleon]

Tried Alchemy this weekend, and it was fun, but the infitine loop you can get in with Alchemist, potion, and a card that lets you return one treasure to the top of your deck is crazy.

You really don't play with my group. At least once per night someone putting together a deck that they can play through every turn is normal. (We've banned Outpost and Posession for this reason (and Swindler for being annoying)).

 

[Wycen]

Due to school I've missed much gaming, but this July 4th weekend finally played some more Dominion (though they just wanted the classic cards to my dismay). I asked if anybody had Alchemy but they don't. I think I'll put it on my wish list.

 

[MerricB]

Alchemy is interesting. Not great, but interesting. (Intrigue and Seaside are much stronger).

My copy of "Stash", the latest promo card available through BGG, arrived the other day. I haven't got to play with it yet. Should be interesting.

Cheers!

 

[Celisasu]

Tried Alchemy this weekend, and it was fun, but the infitine loop you can get in with Alchemist, potion, and a card that lets you return one treasure to the top of your deck is crazy.

*Shudder* I saw that the other week. It's a nasty nasty thing. Made even worse by the fact that due to lack of attack cards in the game we played I had no way of knocking it out.

 

[John Crichton]

*Shudder* I saw that the other week. It's a nasty nasty thing. Made even worse by the fact that due to lack of attack cards in the game we played I had no way of knocking it out.

It's not that powerful.

 

[Neonchameleon]

Lots of pages, so this might have been said already, but...

You can play Dominion ONLINE and for FREE... Go here:

MU-Spiele * BrettspielWelt - Online Portal für Brettspiele

Click INSTANT PLAY...

Enter a Log-in name of your choice, no need for a password...

It is a german site, though the game rules and cards are in english, but servers and such are german. Some players are german too, but everyone I played with spoke, errr, typed in English

Hours of fun...

Question: Is it known that there are only a limited subset of cards used in the online version? I've had a few games (winning about two thirds and utterly botching one where I thought the Apothecary was an Alchemist) - but other than the Minion, most of my favourite cards simply haven't come up. I've had Swindler half a dozen times (including one game where I bought two swindlers* - and they were the 11th and 12th cards after the reshuffle. I lost). Repeated Cellars, Chapels, Festivals, Minions, Transmutes, Golems, Nobles, Remodels, and Militias. But no Bazars, Wharfs, Great Halls, Fishing Villages, Conspirators, Stewards, Tacticians, Outposts, Pearl Fishers, Salvagers, and many many other good cards.

*Swindling Copper into Curses and Gold and Nobles into Adventurers is just nasty.

 

[MerricB]

Yes, it's correct: all the cards from the basic game are included, but only a small subset from any expansion are allowed to be represented in BSW.

Cheers!