Ascension: Card game for iPhone/iPad/paper

My advice would be to play by blocks -- the expansions come in pairs that complement one another, but the game can get a little strange when you're mixing content between different blocks. Each block introduces some different mechanisms to gameplay.

Block 1 is the base game (Chronicle of the Godslayer) plus Revenge of the Fallen, so you might want to grab RotF and play them together.

Block 2 is Storm of Souls and Immortal Heroes

Block 3 is Rise of Vigil and Darkness Unleashed

Block 4 is Realms Unraveled, and the upcoming Dawn of Champions (presumably)

So far, I think Block 3 is my personal favorite. I've been having a lot of fun with Realms Unraveled, but there are some balance issues that can result in gloriously absurd runaway victories. (See various stories above regarding 1000+ point wins.)

So I'd say pick up RotF and get familiar with Block 1, then work your way through one block at a time.

I could use some more regular games if anyone is interested. I think the only goodjer I play is BigRed (good games by the way).

I'm fuzzyslug in Ascension.

fuzzyslug wrote:

I could use some more regular games if anyone is interested. I think the only goodjer I play is BigRed (good games by the way).

I'm fuzzyslug in Ascension.

Invited.

I'm looking for new games too as mine has dwindled down to about 3 active matches.

fuzzyslug wrote:

I could use some more regular games if anyone is interested. I think the only goodjer I play is BigRed (good games by the way).

I'm fuzzyslug in Ascension.

I'm down, but still learning the strategy. I'm "Aretz [GWJ]" on Playdek.

Chumpy_McChump wrote:

RU is so broken.

And yes, Adayu is a big part of that, but the power level in general just seems so much higher. When folks are regularly buying the 7-cost heroes on the 4th or 5th turn...

What's so broken about this?

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Besides your robot hate?

Now you're Jerkbot Z!

Any players up for a game with an Android user? I've got all the expansion packs and stuff.

RU + Promo pack 3 = wuuuuuut

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Strangeblades wrote:

Any players up for a game with an Android user? I've got all the expansion packs and stuff.

The game doesn't allow cross platform play? I assumed it did since it's based on Playdek's servers. If so, yo can find me on Playdek at Aretz[GWJ]. (Actually, there might be a space... I can't quite tell from my phone... so also try Aretz [GWJ].

Aretz wrote:
Strangeblades wrote:

Any players up for a game with an Android user? I've got all the expansion packs and stuff.

The game doesn't allow cross platform play? I assumed it did since it's based on Playdek's servers. If so, yo can find me on Playdek at Aretz[GWJ]. (Actually, there might be a space... I can't quite tell from my phone... so also try Aretz [GWJ].

Thanks. I'll try right now.

Aretz wrote:
Strangeblades wrote:

Any players up for a game with an Android user? I've got all the expansion packs and stuff.

The game doesn't allow cross platform play? I assumed it did since it's based on Playdek's servers. If so, yo can find me on Playdek at Aretz[GWJ]. (Actually, there might be a space... I can't quite tell from my phone... so also try Aretz [GWJ].

Friended. Or, at least, I sent a friend invite.

Strangeblades wrote:
Aretz wrote:
Strangeblades wrote:

Any players up for a game with an Android user? I've got all the expansion packs and stuff.

The game doesn't allow cross platform play? I assumed it did since it's based on Playdek's servers. If so, yo can find me on Playdek at Aretz[GWJ]. (Actually, there might be a space... I can't quite tell from my phone... so also try Aretz [GWJ].

Friended. Or, at least, I sent a friend invite.

Hmm, don't think I'm seeing it. What's your username on Playdek? If it's "Strangeblades," I definitely didn't get anything from you.

Aretz wrote:
Strangeblades wrote:
Aretz wrote:
Strangeblades wrote:

Any players up for a game with an Android user? I've got all the expansion packs and stuff.

The game doesn't allow cross platform play? I assumed it did since it's based on Playdek's servers. If so, yo can find me on Playdek at Aretz[GWJ]. (Actually, there might be a space... I can't quite tell from my phone... so also try Aretz [GWJ].

Friended. Or, at least, I sent a friend invite.

Hmm, don't think I'm seeing it. What's your username on Playdek? If it's "Strangeblades," I definitely didn't get anything from you.

Really? Hmm. It said it found, "Aretz [GWJ]". That's with the space between your name and designation.

EDIT: Yup. I checked. I'm using Strangeblades. The email I use is [email protected].

OK. I created a game. Maybe that'll prompt the server to notify you.

I had no idea there even was a Steam version!

...Looks like reviews for it are lukewarm at best, though, and it's $10 (and not on sale). I'll just stick with the (great) iOS version.

Edit: I'd been hoping it was a free (or cheap) client, and then pay to download the expansions -- or log in to your Playdek account and get them for free if already purchased on iOS. Ah well.

The Steam client (including its first, misbegotten incarnation before they went back to Playdek) was free for backers of the Ascension Online Kickstarter, which is the only reason I've got it. Not sure I'd bother with it otherwise.

WolverineJon wrote:

I had no idea there even was a Steam version!

...Looks like reviews for it are lukewarm at best, though, and it's $10 (and not on sale). I'll just stick with the (great) iOS version.

Edit: I'd been hoping it was a free (or cheap) client, and then pay to download the expansions -- or log in to your Playdek account and get them for free if already purchased on iOS. Ah well.

The listing says it comes with the first 5 expansions, and upon further investigation (I was also a backer on the KS so I've already got a copy) it looks like Realms Unraveled was given free to everyone on the Steam version. Forum thread confirms this and that they're now working on implementing Dawn of Champions.

Also, new physical expansion has been announced: Dreamlands.

I'm ready to buy Dawn of Champions sight-unseen day one for iOS! As someone else (Dixie?) mentioned a while back, Ascension is the only iOS game where I'm happily heavy into the IAP.

Feh. New update is out, and so far it's not auspicious. The iOS app crashes whenever I try to invoke The World Tree (and it seems that the state of the game is saved when you invoke the card, so that every time I try to load that particular game, it crashes again.) Will have to see if the Windows client can handle it -- otherwise will just have to hope that the app gets updated before the timer runs out on that particular game with Apollo0507.

EDIT: At least the Windows version works, so I was able to complete the move. Still not encouraging.

I've had no issues so far, but I haven't seen a World Tree yet, so...

For reference, I'm talking about The World Tree from Immortal Heroes. I had to double-check the name -- I've reached the point where my knowledge of the cards is completely instinctive based on appearance, so I've forgotten all the names. Of course, I need to settle down and learn the Dawn of Champions cards now. (And what looks like a new art style, to boot.)

Have not hit any other crashes so far, so hopefully the problems are limited to just the one card.

Ooo Dawn of Champions is out now?!

I'm up for any Dawn of Champions game, my Playdek ID is Apollo0507.

Dixie, it wouldn't let me go ahead and start a new DoC game with you, so I don't know what is going on there. Since we have 4 games going right now, is that the max you can have between two players?

Dixie_Flatline wrote:

Feh. New update is out, and so far it's not auspicious. The iOS app crashes whenever I try to invoke The World Tree (and it seems that the state of the game is saved when you invoke the card, so that every time I try to load that particular game, it crashes again.) Will have to see if the Windows client can handle it -- otherwise will just have to hope that the app gets updated before the timer runs out on that particular game with Apollo0507.

EDIT: At least the Windows version works, so I was able to complete the move. Still not encouraging.

Edit: It crashed on me too in the same way you described! Guess we just need to let that game time out?

Dixie_Flatline wrote:

For reference, I'm talking about The World Tree from Immortal Heroes. I had to double-check the name -- I've reached the point where my knowledge of the cards is completely instinctive based on appearance, so I've forgotten all the names. Of course, I need to settle down and learn the Dawn of Champions cards now. (And what looks like a new art style, to boot.)

Have not hit any other crashes so far, so hopefully the problems are limited to just the one card.

Ah! Thought I recognized the name. I've only played around with straight DoC.

Apollo0507 wrote:

I'm up for any Dawn of Champions game, my Playdek ID is Apollo0507.

Dixie, it wouldn't let me go ahead and start a new DoC game with you, so I don't know what is going on there. Since we have 4 games going right now, is that the max you can have between two players?

Strange -- it just let me create a DoC game with you, so let's go with that. You can definitely have more than 4 games with the same player, since I've had 7-8 simultaneous games going with another friend for months now.

As far as the crashing SoS/IH game goes, it's showing you in red (so timed out or forfeited), but it's still crashing for me too -- I'll finish that off and we can leave IH alone until they get the fix out.

I'm up for DoC games!

I'm also having issues with one of my existing games crashing on iOS after applying the patch. Each time I try to load it up the app crashes before the game board is even displayed so I can't see what specific card is causing the problem.

I'm also up for DoC games with anyone. Playdek ID is pacman1477.

So far no crash issues for me on the new update, but there do seem to be a number of people reporting issues.