It’s not actually a board game – it’s a card game. You build a deck up and draw cards from it each turn – no pieces to move around. The deck is built during play and you get to chose what cards to add, meaning that in true German board game style, luck is minimised. It’s sort of hard to explain and while the rules seem to me to assume quite a lot, if you jsut take those assumptions and run with them, it’s a pretty simple but eyt tactically deep game with lots of options.

The reason I picked up this (as opposed to one of the other games I want such as Chaos in the Old World, Arkham Horror or Agricola) is because it’s playable with 2 players, not too complex and relatively short, all of which makes it perfect for playing with Abbie. And play she did – utterly destroying me in our first game last night.

I reckon this one will get a lot of play – we just used the recommended basic set up, but the core set includes 25 sets of ‘Kingdom’ cards and each game only uses 10 of those. There’s lots of different combinations here and each should have a few little tricks to learn. Then there’s now two expansion sets as well!

I’d recommend Dominion really highly based on our one session, and I’m really looking forward to playing with a larger group at some point.