Assassin's Creed Recollection - Ubisoft

[braczynski17]

Originally Posted by Evilkarma

what is this Pantheon/RI combo?

RI is Royal Intervention, and makes you gain as many points as the amount of gold you currently have on a single site.

Pantheon is a site that if you control, you win the game.

Put together, they make quite an evil combination...

[Evilkarma]

Originally Posted by braczynski17

RI is Royal Intervention, and makes you gain as many points as the amount of gold you currently have on a single site.

Pantheon is a site that if you control, you win the game.

Put together, they make quite an evil combination...

Costs? And is RI a surprise?


Anyone come across the combo with the card that returns all your opponent's agents/sites to hand and then another card that discards their hand? That is pretty brutal. It's worse than the above combo cause it just makes you sit there and watch yourself lose, which is an auto quit IMO lol

[abstractgamefreak]

Originally Posted by Spatzi

But it is obvious the game is not geared towards casual gamers. This is not skill anymore, but only money spent and luck in acquiring that rarest of rare. I only signed up here to make sure ubisosft would read the post and make some changes, and save others from wasting time grinding like I did. Most people who delete this game will not be bothered to post extensive feedback about it.

@Spatzi Tx for posting here. As someone who had this game on his personal radar from even before the release, it's very helpful and sad at the same time to see that my concerns were well founded. You've described exactly how these games are meant to work. The chiming-in of Ubisoft here comes too late: this is no one-man-dev with his first app. Obviously ACR isn't as successful as was expected- even with its latest price drop and rave reviews.

[Top Shelf]

Originally Posted by Brontobeuf

What about cards that increase your influence?
Judgement day, Seeking Sanctuary or Pontifical High Mass maybe.

And if you want to win vs combo, add Scientific Espionage.

I'm using Seeking Sanctuary to great effect.

Judgement Day is a late option I absolutely need to explore. I'm very intrigued by the "dump x gold for y effect cards". The Media one that creates a Fierce creature is a great example of this type of card I suspect is stronger than people think.

I had Pontifical High Mass in an early build but removed it. To often in the early game it sat in my hand and in the late game playing more sites to boost influence seemed more effective because on occasion I would need to replay sites after they were neutralized.

Based on your input I read over Scientific Espionage. It looks like a great choice vs control and combo decks. I'll do some testing with it.

Thanks for the input!

[Top Shelf]

Originally Posted by ategaw

I have similar deck with yours but I don't have my iPad with me to compare listing. There are few things for considerations:

Thanks! My comments in blue.

> 3 Basilica Di Santa Maria Novella - Great combination with Basilica Di San Pietro

I had 4-5 of these as well but I find that at most I get +2 out of the synergy. So I replaced them with Lair of Romulus, site cost 6 / income -1, influence 5. Same cost but +2 influence with drawback -2 income difference. I find my deck tend to have more gold than it can use so having -1 income is no big deal. The deck ended up faster as well.

I'll play a few games with the change to test out Lair of Romulus. I often play the 0 cost Basilicas repeatedly on top of each other to create increasing income speeds and can power this Maria Novella up to great effect.

> 5 Seeking Sanctuary
Consider Pontifical High mass, action 5, +2 to all sites influence.. and Judgment Day, action 2, lose all gold and each is converted to +1 influence to target site. Good finisher as well although I don't want to have 5 of them.. I put only 1 or 2.

> 5 Amerigo Vespuco - Amazing rush control
I like Roma site (cost 4, influence 2) that prevents agents from campaigning in the region and it also improves your site theme.

I had this in a previous version and ended up removing it for Maria Novella. I won against rush so easily I found I didn't need it. I never considered swapping Amerigo for it because I LOVE Amerigo so much. I'm not sure I'll do it, but I'll give it some thought.

> vs other site deck:
I forgot the name.. there's a Golden site that neutralize opposite site when it resolved. cost 4, influence 1.

I missed this card. It's Venezia San Polo District. Thank you for pointing it out. It's something that I'll give some strong consideration to adding!

> Leonardo and the Pope
I think Judgment day and Daring experiments, action 2, lose all gold and draw 1 for each 2 gold.. are better to make use of the excess gold late game.

Daring Experiments seems like a great idea to sink all that extra gold into. It's going into the deck.

> 3 Roman Temple Ruins
I use divine Interventions for cost 1 income booster (discards opponent highest cost card) but it's Assassin rare so not easy to get.

That would certainly help against control/combo. I wonder if I can afford to lose a few sites. Or swap out the big Agents for a few copies. I'm going to test it.

> I also like to use that Golden (Stables?) site that cost 2, influence 1, income +X (X=number of sites) as well.

Thanks for the feedback. It's greatly appreciated!

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A Few Thoughts on AC: Recollections in General

It has a ton of flavor. I have never even played an Assassin’s Creed video game and I get the sense of what the world is like. All the art makes me intrigued to learn more about the world and play the video games.

It has a game play mechanic in the day and gold increase speed that make it a CCG that’s uniquly playable on a tablet system. I’m not sure it would be the same game if you played with physical copies of the cards.

There is a lot of depth and strategy to AC: Recollections. Remember this is an initial release of cards. I can’t remember a CCG with this much depth from its initial release and that includes Magic, WoW and Vs. Even without an ELO or tournament system in place I’m seeing a metagame shaping up rather quickly. That’s awesome when you consider that most players are still collecting cards and learning about their abilities.

Like everyone else I do have a wish list of things that will take this great game to the next level:
1. Auction House
2. Ability to search cards by name in the sequence manager “Google style”
3. A complete online visual library
4. Tournament structure and rating system
5. Ability to create and use sideboards during tournaments
6. Bug Fixes in general (XP credit is at the top of the list)
7. Official forums

Overall, AC: Recollections is the game I’m playing most on the iPad right now and that’s with the release of the Ascension expansion! I’m looking forward to building more decks and playing in tournaments in the future. This game has a LOT of potential.

[Jools75]

Originally Posted by braczynski17

RI is Royal Intervention, and makes you gain as many points as the amount of gold you currently have on a single site.

Pantheon is a site that if you control, you win the game.

Put together, they make quite an evil combination...

Not exactly... Pantheon is a site that gives a victory if ANYONE control the region where it is... Done today against one guy, since I have one Monteriggioni already in play I shot a funny 12 gold strike with my Royal Intervention on a region with a Pantheon on his side... Quite rare, but very very funny... He recovered "only" 11 gold before I reached 12, probably he was planning to do the same. Better to pay attention to that card!

[ottbot]

I've been following this thread for a while and I enjoy this game very much like a lot of you. Thanks to all for sharing deck strategies, especially Brontobeuf.

What prompt me to start posting is because of the criticism raised about the game and all I want to say is:

I've spend $50 on the game (all focusing on Templar packs) and intend to spend more for Assassin packs next. Even though it is all intangible, I am still having fun from the experience of constructing decks, thinking of strategies and collecting virtual cards just like I had with Yugioh, Magic: The Gathering, Overpower in reality.

I've made this game the focus of my blogging and hope to create a card list for Templar Cards soon!

[ategaw]

Originally Posted by Brontobeuf

*** Nicodeck ***
- 5 Nicollo Machiavelli
- 5 Nicolaus Coppernicus
- 5 Ezio Auditore da Firenze
- 5 Thepian Legionnaire
- 3 Cristina Vespucci
- 4 Dama Rossa
- 5 Art Gallery
- 5 Political Patronage (the card I miss)
- 5 Tactless Theatrics
- 3 Magnetic Personality
- 5 Scientific Espionage

Awesome deck, good balance between control and rushing.
Unfortunately, I don't have all the cards so modified it to focus more on rushing aspects. Put in usual income boosters (action 0/+2, 1/+1, draw card) replacing Dama Rossa (only have 1 grr..) and Art Gallery. Put in extra Magnetic Personallity. Magnetic Personality is definitely a very strong card than it seems. It can give +3 score, kill your opponent agent and/or save yours.

[ategaw]

Originally Posted by Evilkarma

Costs? And is RI a surprise?

Anyone come across the combo with the card that returns all your opponent's agents/sites to hand and then another card that discards their hand? That is pretty brutal. It's worse than the above combo cause it just makes you sit there and watch yourself lose, which is an auto quit IMO lol

RI is a normal action, costs 2, so you need 12 gold to score 10 in a region. There's a golden site Montegrrioni cost 6 that turns all actions surprises (including your opponents) which make them all non-counterable.

Impending academic, green action cost 7, return all sites and agents to owners hand. Doomsday, red action cost 7, discard all opponent hand. Need 14 gold for maximum effect. Brutal but RI/Pantheon or 2xRI + pilfer supplies (regain all gold) are easier to pull off and only need 12 gold.

Can anyone tell me which faction Engineer's Workroom is? Assassin or Templar? Thanks.

Where's the Auction House? :P