Sometimes it’s better to not take so much debt and sometimes it’s better to just spike something early. truffles: Hi everyone! JNails: Despite other things, some have been generally positive. nasmith99: Um, just something like “Specifics matter”, I guess? markus: Yeah, I didn’t prepare for that one. So, do you have a card that you really like? “Don’t buy Gold.” I’ve been commentating a lot of lower level games and I’ve just found that’s been the advice I’ve most consistently given. 2 Stars, 0 … Happy for more economists. Strategy never changes according to mat? So, I imagine my theoretical expansion won’t have a lot of strong attacks. nerdbound: Uh, well I don’t think I would pick myself anyways, haha. So far, everyone I’ve interviewed so far [markus, nasmith99, JNails, nerdbound] has studied Econ in school. truffles: Yeah, I think Dan Brooks also plays those boards really well, where it’s a little bit loopy, and a little bit different than what you would see on your regular average kingdom boards. nasmith99: Sure. In an alternate reality in 1920s Europa, it's been several years since the ""Great War"", but the ashes of the conflict are still hot and th truffles: That’s a good and wholesome one. I really enjoy everything about it. truffles: You reached the Top 8 in the Championship last year, and you came second. truffles: You say you work in information security. He's also captain for El Dorado Team 01. It’s just too strong. I also really like Ruins now with Ways because I think Ruins are less bad. RTT: Yeah haha, I heard that. JNails: I did have the fortune or misfortune of playing Mic when I was in A league, but let’s not talk about that. markus: I like it very much. Only 8 players remain. truffles: Haha. Many Horses could be yours.”. truffles: You’re the second person that I’ve interviewed and also the second person who has named gatekeeper as their least favorite menagerie card. They’re all kind of mixed up. truffles: Yeah. Making it to the Top 8 means you’re a really good player. In his interview, he shared similar advice on how Dominion players could improve. Because it’s always the question if you want to save your turn or make your current turn a lot better but you lose some good card. Thanks for letting me interview you, and good luck! RTT: Yeah, it’s fun when you can just close the game and leave the client without losing rating as a spectator, haha. What’s your least favorite card? Maybe at some high level, you should actually go “I see the best thing on this board is this huge engine, but I think some money deck might beat it so I’ll go with the money deck.” Most of the time that’s wrong anyways, but even when it’s right it’s hard to learn from. What you don’t know is that I’m unusually tall and thin, so I’ve always borne comparisons to giraffes so the giraffe has always been my thing. truffles: Cool! Which, the US has dropped the ball a little bit, to say the least. Congratulations, and I know this is your second year in a row making it all the way to the Top 8. Ludwig von Koopa is the eldest of the Koopalings, a clan of seven siblings that act as leaders of the Koopa Troop under Bowser. 4.5 out of 5 stars. I think it’s happening this Saturday [October 31st] at 18:30 UTC. He is an excellent top player with many proven records, but that will make me more concentrated at all. Probably nothing - I'm sure someone out there has the games I own and comes on r/boardgames.Some possible candidates are: Babylon 5 Component Game System + all expansion - took me several years of hunting and I got lucky because the reinforcement pack #1 was mixed in with a base set plus 3 expansions that I bought. While there is plenty of direct conflict for players who seek it, there is no player elimination. JNails: I took a real beating last year in the quarterfinals, so I’m glad that LimeTime was able to take them out earlier. I remember passing a turn where I could have got 7 Provinces to get a single Villager from Exploration. I love it. The only elements of chance apart from each player's individual secrete objective card are the Encounter cards, which players draw to interact with the citizens of newly explored lands. Yeah, that’s in the hit-or-miss category for me. So, what has your favourite moment in the Championship been so far, if you have one? Favorite overall might honestly still be cavalry. On Halloween. JNails: That’s easy. I think it’s particularly fun to see Necromancer with Knights because it’s like Knights then have 2 lives. I actually don’t play that often, but I spectate a lot and from a spectator view it’s a lot of fun to watch Swindler games. truffles: I noticed you also have the menagerie card as your avatar, do you like the expansion just because the names is awesome? As It said beginners were welcome, I did jump in. 3 Stars, 0 product ratings 0. My last question for you is, if you had a Dominion catchphrase, what would it be? Do note that this comes after having played tens of thousands of games and requires a certain kind of intuition to be utilized to its fullest extent. Going to have to master the skill of building a deck that draws itself to be good at the game. At least, there’s a consistent degeneracy to the kingdom, so you can appreciate it more. Tsurugi Kyousuke (剣城(つるぎ) 京介(きょうすけ)) is one of the main protagonists of the Inazuma Eleven GO series. A common theme is advancing an empire, such as in "Age of Empires," Civilization," and "Heroes of Might and Magic." Eight total kingdom cards use Horses, and four landscapes. But then, there’s the ⅙ chance it hits your Sentry. I learned Dominion there. or Best Offer. Especially with the presence of ways, there’s the added layer of complexity of deciding between playing the card’s ability or using a way. Resist the temptation to buy it. Once in your deck, it’s just like Experiment, from Renaissance; it turns out, they were experimenting on Horses. (+210 Total HP bonuses from Cross-Fate Episodes.MAX ATK: 10560 / 12540 Fully uncapped ATK at MAX level. Just because I had one game today in the round of 16 with Transport, I think that’s a very nice event, so I will pick that as a landscape. Probably Sleigh, Sleigh is pretty nice, you have quite a few tricks you can do with it. Groom rushes to me are incredibly boring; they dominate every kingdom basically and they’re super easy to play. (+630 Total ATK bonuses from Cross-Fate Episodes.Element: Race Officially called "Type" in-game. That’s where I faced Dan Brooks. Perfect Grade (PG) (パーフェクトグレード, Pāfekuto Gurēdo?) So Dominion wasn’t really the top priority for me there. Scrap gives you a choice of bonuses, with more stuff for trashing a more expensive card. Reiwa: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reiwa, Japanese Dominon League is held in the style of the Dominion League, in Dominion in Japan Discord. truffles: Haha, right, you faced them in the Quarterfinals last year. Especially if you look at cards like Groom or Stockpile. This time last year, I remember I had to hunt you down on the Shuffle iT Forum, since you weren’t active on Discord. Do you have a favorite or least favorite card in the expansion? BoardGameGeek Rating: 7.66 ... and sheep as the primary resource. After the Championship I also joined To-Domi, Tokyo Dominion Circle. Favorite? Exploding out of the midgame. As a follow-up to the championship questions, do you have a person that you think is most likely to win? markus: Well, you should sometimes buy Gold, but “Don’t do stupid stuff”. Freaky: Man, I wish I could play like I did a year ago. RTT: Yeah, like 80% of boards have a better trasher anyways. I don’t really have an answer other than like: play awake. For the time being, I’m just working more or less part-time. truffles: That’s awesome. If you do not see your Masquerade turn 3, then turn 4 Masquerade will trigger a shuffle and draw exactly one card from the new shuffle. truffles: So, menagerie came out this year, which is kind of crazy because this year has just flown by, but what are your impressions of the expansion? truffles: My last question for you is: If you had a Dominion catchphrase, what would it be and why? It is a brand new card. truffles: Have you checked out the #pets channel in the main discord? The consistency they give, the concept I like, I don’t like the specific cards because I think they’re as a whole too strong but Sculptor isn’t in that category of a card. truffles: Oh I see, I thought you meant there was some synergy where you after you discard your cards with Storeroom you just end your turn with all your money to gain another Hermit. The game is set entirely in and around a castle where both Trish and Dante go to on Mallet Island. Freaky: I’m 23, finished my Bachelors this year, and then this whole Corona thing happened, so a little annoying to get a job right now as a new person entering the workforce. If we don't have a product, send a message and we will add it to the store ASAP so you can get the games you … Well, newer players, if you’re new to the game, I think the only thing you should focus on is power cards. I had a game where I played against aku chi where he invested Magpies and Villas. It’s really nice to have some extra new cards, especially the previews. Rising Sun is a board game for 3 to 5 players set in legendary feudal Japan. Just seeing someone click cards, it might not necessarily be obvious as to why they’re doing it a certain way, but listening to those kinds of explanations is definitely very helpful. truffles: I know you’ve done a lot of work in card stats and card glicko – do those observations and data affect how you like a card at all, or is it just more for interest? So, menagerie came out this year – I was wondering what your impressions of it are. The justification of such a simplification is that Dominion is a very snowbally game; getting an advantage now translates into an even bigger one down the line and focusing only on what helps you now drastically reduces decisions that have an end state of your deck in mind but do not help you get there the fastest. Only 8 players remain. However, if you have played a few times and need… Though some people don’t think playstyle is a Dominion thing, but I think I do. I wish you the best of luck and have fun! There was the last game of the series against cha-shu, all the points were out of the board pretty much, except one province and two curses were still in the pile; I was 5 points ahead or something, so I donated to trash a curse and next turn bought the last two curses. truffles: Hi everyone! RTT: Something new, I don’t know. truffles: Yeah, that’s what I meant. Scythe (1–5 players, 115, minutes) is a board game set in an alternate-history 1920s period. I’ve lost some brutal games to an early Captain and it’s not that fun. truffles: Do you have a favorite or least favorite card overall? As fun as using bad cards can be, on the vast majority of kingdoms the path to victory does not include them. My big advice is to pass up that burning desire to buy the gold. I always thought Mastermind was just too cheap and too unreliable because most decks you can’t decide what your opening hand is. truffles: Yeah, you should try to aim to be in his division. Also, we were on vacation at the same time, haha. Censorship refers to the suppression of material that may be considered objectionable, harmful, sensitive, politically incorrect or inconvenient as determined by governments, media outlets, authorities or other groups or institutions. Top Rated Seller Top Rated Seller. For those of you listening/reading I’ll insert the link and timestamp here. Honestly, everything before Nocturne is just like one big expansion in my mind for the most part. This year we saw 471 players enter to compete in the Dominion 2020 Online Championship. Whenever there’s like a second Minion game or so, I’m a bit disappointed. JNails: Improve. I think that’s the main thing I do anyways – try to learn from other people. Do you have a least favorite card in menagerie? The better they are, the stronger the trasher becomes as you can still buy them after playing it and the downside to taking a slow turn is mitigated by a significant degree. That’s kind of fun but a completely different game. Freaky: If you look at my chart it says two-and-a-half years, which should basically match it. This works on cards you buy, or cards you get other ways. truffles: You’ve been in the Discord community for awhile now, what’s your favourite aspect of this community. truffles:  For sure. For me at least, there’s been a silver lining to the whole thing. Because I think it’s over 400 players this year, so it’s pretty awesome to make it this far. And then, very recently, I just got a kingdom where my deck was only Necromancers and a few treasures. The Horse goes onto your deck, so normally you’ll just start with it next turn. RTT: I figured, haha. nerdbound: He seemed to be enjoying it, but I don’t know – you’d have to ask him, haha. I’m also going to ban it from here on out, but at this point I think it’s pretty horrible to be in a kingdom for me. JNails: I don’t think that’s changed much since last year. SEKIGAHARA: THE UNIFICATION OF JAPAN. truffles:  I remember that division! I think whoever taught us the game didn’t know it too well, so when we played a card we discarded it so we had loops all the time. Almost every card I dislike is an attack card or a pseudo-attack card like IGG or Possession. truffles:  Have you had a favourite overall Dominion moment this whole year so far? I dislike that it sort of continues the trend of Renaissance where cards are just super-centralizing, but people don’t seem to have a problem with that as much as I do I suppose. He calls himself the “Supply Sommelier” — I wonder if anyone else does — that is, he loves making all kinds of interesting boards for us. Our mission is to build connections in our communities, especially for servicemembers and their families. truffles: I do like the Villager concept in general, and the consistency and reliability it gives cards. I don’t even know. Whereas with King’s Court at the start, you only see 4 cards. So, what was it? RTT: Well, there have been some nice boards. nerdbound: So I probably first played Dominion a number of years ago, in real life. And that’s why I wanted it to be my Dominion discord picture. Good luck! truffles: Do you like Black Cat because you’re a cat-lover, or do you like the card interaction? JNails: Hmm, I really like Menagerie – I love the exile mat, and I love the interesting interactions it creates. This year we saw 471 players enter to compete in the Dominion 2020 Online Championship. Classical Scythians dominated the Pontic steppe from approximately the 7th century BC until the 3rd century BC. That helps to ground you and learn what other people think might be best play so you can make up your mind about what the right answer would have been in that situation. Only 8 players remain. Develop new templates to make our wikis look good and make contributing easier. That’s what I think I’m good at? BoardGameGeek Rating: 7.66 ... and sheep as the primary resource. Good Subscriber Account active since Free subscriber-exclusive audiobook! – – – Interview with lost audio begins here!- – –. My favorite Dominion moment this year, personally, was the Loser’s Bracket finals of Tournament Big Money, another one of the big tournaments this year. Every so often it falls upon the shoulders of Wargamer to make a list. Oh, probably just the WELP Finals in general. So, I have to keep a calm attitude and don’t stress myself out. This is a big topic that I can’t possibly cover in its entirety, so I will focus on the very basic principle of it. You should watch a lot of high level play and especially watch the chat, where people are disagreeing and such. It is known in Japan as Akumajō Dracula XX (Double X) (悪魔城ドラキュラXX, Akumajō Dracula XX (Double X)?) I guess buy all the Sheepdogs, maybe, sometimes. Freaky: Yeah for sure, stuff like exploration is great. C $81.44. That was a fun board, that was a long time ago but it’s stuck in my memory. You might know I was a substitute for the Japanese national team in the World Cup 2020. So two days is really impressive! Now you want to ask yourself how do you play as many of those as quickly as possible, so you look for early acceleration and then you’re already at the opening. I feel like there are a lot of really interesting cards and also just a lot of cards that are kind of more simple but do still make games pretty interesting in general. truffles: If you reach the semi-finals and get some prize money, maybe you can donate some to LimeTime. truffles: I will insert the link [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6RKSGaHl9YA] here so people can throw you some thumb’s up, haha. Shindou Takuto (神童(しんどう) 拓人(たくと)) is one of the main protagonists of the Inazuma Eleven GO series. It also includes new cardboard tokens, 2 new player mats, 6 Automa cards, and a custom plastic insert designed to fit into the expansion box or the original Scythe box. For me, that hasn’t been much of a hindrance. truffles: Haha. From United States So I guess my advice would be to play as I did back then, because I feel like my play has really fallen off a cliff in comparison. I think I said that last year as well. nerdbound: I think I’m going to go with Menagerie Mix. Speaking of that, do you have a favorite moment in the Championship so far? truffles: Do you have a favorite or least favorite card? Which sadly sometimes happens with people that they spend a lot of time on decisions that hardly matter. nasmith99: Yeah, a lot of the nocturne cards are quite nice. SSLY: As a strong player who made it to the top 8, what advice would you give other players who want to be better at Dominion? Thanks so much for letting me interview you, and I think you’re going to be playing nasmith99 next round? I was very nervous in my first league and tournaments as well. RTT: Haha, I’m playing more chill now because I’m basically where I wanted to be already. It probably means you click on another draw card, like smithy or something like that. Freaky: Oh my, oh my. If it had the Scout art, it would still be my favorite. nerdbound: Do you have an example of a thought process? pop180: It has very simple text, doesn’t it? My Little Scythe is more than a baby step, but it’s no Giant Leap . So there’s a time to buy gold, obviously. How can I be welcoming to newer players? You reached the quarterfinals last year as well, do you have any lessons from your past self? Swindler is the other one. Which I think at least if you’re learning the game, it’s definitely the way to go. SSLY: I’d like to ask you about the current tournament. Monument and Herald. nerdbound: Yeah, haha it’s on my banlist. Both good real-life advice and Dominion advice. Do you have a favourite or least favourite card overall, in all expansions? I was very surprised at how good it is if you just stack them up, I thought that wouldn’t be very good looking at it at first glance, but it’s actually surprisingly consistent as the only draw. SSLY: You can pick any card or any feature in the set. catoftheyear: Ya, I guess you can say so. But my impression is that cards have gotten better over time. nerdbound: Occasionally. 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