Dark Ages wouldn't be my recommendation to new players to Dominion, but if you've been playing for a while and want to add some new twists, then this set is for you. A great addition to an already great game.
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Dark Ages wouldn't be my recommendation to new players to Dominion, but if you've been playing for a while and want to add some new twists, then this set is for you. A great addition to an already great game.
My wife and I play a lot of dominion, and I hoped this expansion was going to breathe life back into a game that had gotten stale (we owned intrigue and Cornucopia before this, and not the main set).
Not all players will like some of the gritty, swingy cards (Knights, I'm looking at you), or some of the cards with more subtle uses (Hermit/Madman, Rats), but if you've played a lot of Dominion, this change of pace and slightly longer game time (25 – 35 minutes rather that 15 – 25 minutes) might be exactly what you are looking for.
It's also extremely satisfying when you manage to use some of the newer cards effectively. Highly recommended for Dominion veterans.
Dark Ages spices up Dominion instead of estates at the start you get shelters. And you can give ruins to your enemies instead of just curses. It adds new attack cards such as knights which are all different. In previous games the trash may not have been used that much. In this game your trash pile gan get huge and it matters whats in it!
Times have been hard. To save on money, you've moved out of your old castle and into a luxurious ravine. You didn't like that castle anyway; it was always getting looted and never at a reasonable hour. And if it wasn't barbarians it was the plague, or sometimes both would come at once, and there wouldn't be enough chairs. The ravine is great; you get lots of sun, and you can just drop garbage wherever you want. In your free time you've taken up begging. Begging is brilliant conceptually, but tricky in practice since no one has any money. You beg twigs from the villagers, and they beg them back, but no one really seems to come out ahead. That's just how life is sometimes. You're quietly conquering people, minding your own business, when suddenly there's a plague, or barbarians, or everyone's illiterate, and it's all you can do to cling to some wreckage as the storm passes through. Still, you are sure that, as always, you will triumph over this adversity, or at least do slightly better than everyone else.
Dominion: Dark Ages is the seventh addition to the game of Dominion. It contains 500 cards but is not a standalone game. It adds 35 new Kingdom cards to Dominion, plus new bad cards you give to other players (Ruins), new cards to replace starting Estates (Shelters), and cards you can get only via specific other cards. The central themes are the trash and upgrading. There are cards that do something when trashed, cards that care about the trash, cards that upgrade themselves, and ways to upgrade other cards.
Note: This is not a stand-alone game. A copy of Dominion, Dominion: Intrigue and Dominion: Base Cards are required to play.
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