[Akela]

Hello,

I, also, am new to Dominion. I've played it twice now, as the Marveni, and lost both times. The first time went about as you would expect. I was happily and effortlessly conquering the world - until I ran into the first comptuter player. It was a lot like hockey after that, with me as the puck.

It became pretty clear that if you are being out produced by another player, unless they are distracted with something else you can't beat them. You can tell me if this isn't true, but that's the way it seemed to me then.

So in the second game I decided to take a more oranized approach to maxing income. I made another Pretender with Order 3, Dominion 5 and some extra levels of Nature and Earth, and then set out to cut off a chunk of the world by taking provinces in a line and backfilling with 30 or 40 PD as I went through.

This worked pretty well. I was able to isolate a big chuck of the world and mostly destroy the first player I ran into. Unfortnately before he was done I ran into the other two. Let me tell you something, I'm getting pretty sick and tired of those Vanheims and their glamored units. They seem to have such an advantage you'd *think* the game designers were Nordic.

Anyway, lost that one too. I guess I should have probably put this post somewhere else on here, this probably isn't the forum for it, but that's where I'm at. Starting my third game now, maybe working a little harder on research. Glad to be here.

Akela