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February 13, 2009
BrettSpielWelt - Dominion
Have been playing on BSW a fair bit this week. Dominion really is the perfect game for BSW, really short, lots of players so easy to find/start a game fast, and tons of time savings from shuffling. I do have a couple of minor quibbles with the interface. First, I'd really like a 'Virtual Provinces'/Even number of turns option. Second, they shouldn't always put the little green arrow move on button in the one place. I played a Throne Room'd Adventurer in one game in a deck where I had very little money, so was just blasting through the 'next' button and ended up ending my turn without buying anything when I think I had enough for a Province and a Duchy.
Last night I had a pretty amazing 2-player game. The deck was a great one with no attack cards but Bureaucrat and with Chapel, Village, Throne Room, Market, Council Room all included. I had an early lucky turn where I got 13 money and had 4 buys and used it to buy 3 Villages and a Throne Room rather than a Province/Duchy. These purchases ended up sending my deck into overdrive, and I later had turns with 22 Money and then 25 Money, all with multiple buys. On the last, I bought 3 Provinces in a single turn, which is definitely a first for me. We both Chapeled all of our Estates and the scored ended up being 36-12, entirely on Provinces.
Got in one fun Tichu game with Brian too, which we won pretty easily despite some fairly major booboos. He passed me an Ace on a hand where I gave him a King so I confidently led the 1 and called an Ace. Well, turns out he passed me an Ace from a great hand so not surprisingly was hit by it. Then, in a later hand, on a bad timing issue, my right-hand opponent led pair of Kings and I was last to play and played pair of Aces. Brian ended up bombing my Aces, as he didn't see in time I had played and didn't want the Kings to win. BTW, my login is AaronDF so feel free to add me to your watchlist.
Posted by aarondf at February 13, 2009 11:46 AM
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