5 Ways to Win: Dominion
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 10 ม.ค. 2016
- First time playing, can't seem to win, or just looking to build a bigger and more pleasant kingdom; these five tips will help.
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I have remodeled a gold into province for a win
buying gold everytime you hit 6 and province everytime you hit 8 is probably the worst possible dominion advice you can give anyone. Those are the two habits that I absolutely try to get newer dominion players to stop if they actually want to get good
Eh, it's not the worst advice. Big money variations are worth doing into kingdoms with a LOT of unfamiliarity and complication, both if you're on even footing, and engines aren't reliable.
That said, you're right that going raw big money into every game is a big noob trap, since it bottlenecks them into a reliable, but *glacial* deck that gets eaten alive by any variety of engine, slog, and rush, and hell, even just having a witch present in the kingdom.
This does not demonstrate a particularly good understanding of dominion.
Saying that Woodcutter is better than Silver, because it's like "two cards in one" (Action and money) is completely bonkers. Instead your most important advice should be the exact opposite: Limit your terminal Actions (or get enough Villages to support them). This is common mistake for beginners: buying too many Actions, especially terminal Actions. You touch on this in the advice about no "trash" cards, but there you don't really state what makes a card a "trash" card. ("Trash" card is a misfortunate term, btw, because we have "trasher" or "trashing" cards. "Useless" card would be better.) Anyway, Woodcutter is actually almost always worse than Silver, because it's terminal (unlike Silver) and only provides +1 Buy. Only when you really need that +1 Buy and there are no other cards that give it, would you normally consider one Woodcutter (but probably still several Silvers).
What does terminal mean? I am new to Dominion.
Yeah, I don't need to say this video is filled with terrible advice because everyone else is already saying it.
Your tips are fine for a beginner, but after 4 or 5 games, those start becoming less relevant. If you want to work on strategies, check out DominionStrategy.com
You say that buying only treasures is a reliable way to win against people who aren't playing their best -- why would you assume your opponents won't be playing well? Why not try to find strategies that are better? If you look at pretty much all of the videos on my channel you'll find people playing things that easily beat that strategy in every single one.
Can’t figure out how to play Ways profitably , any examples out there?
I play dominion online and I feel it’s sort of annoying when people buy like 7+ Festival cards or cards like that one. Cause it gives them such an advantage and then it’s like you’re not even playing the game, you know?
With all due respect, that is the game. If you have all the most powerful cards in your deck and your opponent doesn't, you are going to win.
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I appreciate the sentiment (as I'm sure many people do) but you might want to do research on Dominionstrategy.com, forum.dominionstrategy or Adam Horton's channel (see below). You also might want to invest in an expansion set or two to get to play more in depth strategy and thus make a more advanced video.
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Thank you for the kind comment, I really appreciate it.
I made this video for my 10 year old nephew who likes the game. Although I've played the game about 30 times on table and 60 online when it was on boardgamearena.com, I find that it only ever makes it to the table when playing with beginner board gamers and children. I was sharing this mentality with one of the game's developers a few years back and he didn't mind, to each their own and all that, he only got upset when I told him I hadn't purchased the game, so I also made this video to show him I finally coughed up $50 for it.
As far as game expansions go, you might be right, but I prefer to focus on the base games in my videos and personally have mixed feelings on game expansions. (Is dominion a $50 game or a $200 game) I also like to leave some of my tricks out of videos for 3 reasons: So others have an opportunity to leave tips in the comments, so I still have an ace when playing, and so that I can later make an advanced ways to win video if I ever get back to it. (so many games so little time)
Strategy refers to overarching plans, usually general themes that guide actions and choices. For example, "Only fight battles you know you can win" and "know as much about your enemy as possible" are old strategies in war. (I hear someone wrote a "book" about such things a few thousand years ago.)
Tactics refer to the methods one uses in the moment, the actions and choices they make with their strategy in mind (hopefully). For example, "if the enemy places his troops here then I will place my reserves and archers here" and "setting up scouts and spies" are tactics.
The same exist board games, strategies on how to win and tactics to achieve the victory.
As far as Dominionstrategy.com goes (I think it should be named Dominiontactics.com) it seems like a great website for its audience, very in depth and detailed. Also very advanced. I imagined I was looking at the website as someone who's never played Dominion before and it could seem overwhelming. If I told my friends to read that website before coming to my house to play, they probably wouldn't make it to my house. Alternatively, I hope people can share my video with their friends comfortably to help offset the game's learning curve a bit.
I did click on the article "New to Dominion?" and that led me to the "Guide to the Base Game" which I found useful, although it did seem to echo my own points pretty fairly. It even included the "Big Money" build of only buying gold and silver that seemed to ruffle so many feathers in my video. :) Also, I would argue that most of the advice on that site would fit as great examples of how to better carry out the strategies I mentioned. In trying to make board gaming more accessible to the general public, I choose to do short 5-10 minute videos on youtube rather than complex forums and articles that require extensive searching and reading. I hope people might watch my video, enjoy the game more their first few times, and then if they're still interested seek out the deeper communities. (To be honest I chuckled when I saw your name was Dominion_Addict, I didn't know they existed but I'm happy you're here.)
On a side note, I think my mistake in this video (besides not addressing the game's apparent fan base) was not giving enough explanation. Normally I like my 5 tips to be general strategies that players can use in any situation, then I offer detailed examples and possible tactics players can use in game. However in this video, for the sake of my time, I kind of just breezed over the tactics, Oh well, probably would have been faster to just include them in the video (I thought they'd be too boring) than to write this huge reply.
Cheers and happy gaming everyone.
Ray
u can use remodel to remodel copper to silver, then mine to take it to gold and then remodel gold to province
no you cant
Gabriel Kraft remodel makes you trash a card then gain a card costing up to 2 more copper costs 0 and silver costs 3