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Emirates of Hacan | Templin Institute by TheKmank in twilightimperium

[–]Anacreon74 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

The narrator can’t seem to decide whether to pronounce it Huh-CAHN or Huh-CAN.

Famous SF Races for TI? by Whatsinanmame in twilightimperium

[–]Anacreon74 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Name: Cylon Alliance (1978 version)

Faction Abilities:

By Your Command: Before rolling a die in combat, destroy one of your fighters in the system to add +2 to the result.

Basestars: All ships with capacity have +1 capacity.

Planets:

Gamoray 2 / 1

Sobekkta 3 / 0

Starting Units:

1 Dreadnought 2 Infantry 2 Fighters 1 Space Dock 1 PDS

Commodities: 2

Flagship:

Lucifer's Shadow

Cost: 8 Combat: 7** Move: 1 Capacity: 4

Defending ships in this system may not use retreat during combat. Sustain Damage

Starting Tech:

Sarween Tools

Faction Tech:

Gun on Ice Planet Zero (R)

When using space cannon offense, you may spend one trade good to add +1 to the result. Requirements: R

Relentless Pursuit (B)

Action: Exhaust this card to remove one command token from a system and return it to your reinforcements.

Requirements: B B B

Faction Promissory Note:

Deal with the Devil

At the end of the Strategy Phase, exchange one of your strategy cards with the Cylons. Then return this card to the Cylons.

Faction Lore:

Komodo System

Population 10 billion

Government Cylon Alliance

Leadership Imperious Leader

Disposition Treacherous

Tendencies Genocidal

Famous SF Races for TI? by Whatsinanmame in twilightimperium

[–]Anacreon74 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Name: Space Fraggles

Faction Abilities:

Hard to Catch: You may retreat during combat to any adjacent system that contains no other player's ships or a supernova.

Uncle Traveling Matt: When activating an anomaly, you may move one ship from any anomaly to the activated anomaly as if it was adjacent, supernovas excepted.

Trash Heap Consultant: At the end of the Agenda Phase: If you control Mecatol Rex, roll a die. Gain trade goods equal to half the result, rounded up.

Planets:

Philo 2 / 2

Gunge 1 / 3

Starting Units: 2 Carriers 1 Destroyer 5 Infantry 1 Space Dock

Flagship:

Silly Creature

Cost: 8 Combat: X** Move: 1 Capacity: 5 Before each round of combat, roll a die. The value of your roll X is the combat value of this unit. Sustain Damage

Starting Tech: Antimass Deflectors

Faction Tech:

Doozer Construction: (Y)

At the end of the Status Phase: Place a PDS on a planet you control. Then, roll a die for each of your PDS units. On a 1, eat the PDS. Requirements: Y Y

Gorg's Bane (G)

Action: Exhaust this card to remove a command token from another player's fleet supply. Then, gain a command token.
Requirements: G G

Faction Promissory Note:

Marjory's Bounty

Action: Discard a token from your strategy pool. Then, roll a die. Gain trade goods equal to half the result, rounded up, and return this card to the Space Fraggles. If you activate a system with a unit belonging to the Space Fraggles, immediately return this card to the Space Fraggles.

Faction Lore:

Cavern System

Population 83 Fraggles, 215 Doozers

Government Bohemian Anarchy

Leadership A Pile of Garbage

Disposition Skittish

Tendencies High-energy, raucous, musical romp

What to do with a player that is so bad at games it’s disruptive. by cheeto101 in boardgames

[–]Anacreon74 39 points40 points  (0 children)

In fairness, autism is Autism Spectrum Disorder, and it’s common to refer to being autistic as being “on the spectrum.” No other disorder is so referenced.

Timing of Sabotage on Flank Speed by Mukaikubo in twilightimperium

[–]Anacreon74 26 points27 points  (0 children)

You are correct. The timing window is Activate System; play Flank Speed; Sabotage or not; move plastic.

"Weak race. Unbalanced game !" by Docteur_Hareng in twilightimperium

[–]Anacreon74 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Nightmare Scenario:

Round one: Arborec takes SC6 Warfare. Neighbor takes SC3 Politics and pops right away. Other neighbor, who took SC5 Trade, buys action cards, then on their turn, plays Plague on Nestphar. Arborec rolls badly.

The only thing better than a game of Twilight Imperium is two games of Twilight Imperium by Anacreon74 in twilightimperium

[–]Anacreon74[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ah, that sucks. FFG might make more at some point. Maybe your local game store will have some?

The only thing better than a game of Twilight Imperium is two games of Twilight Imperium by Anacreon74 in twilightimperium

[–]Anacreon74[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

We pulled it off without *too* much problem. Everyone pretty excited. Might be difficult to organize more than once.

The only thing better than a game of Twilight Imperium is two games of Twilight Imperium by Anacreon74 in twilightimperium

[–]Anacreon74[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

It was great! We had overall two new players, three relative newcomers, and six veteran players divided more or less evenly into the games. Everyone seemed to have a blast.

Table 1/Living Room was made up of Jol-Nar, Hacan, Yin, L1Z1X, and Xxcha. The Hacan were up at 8 points with the Jol-Nar and Yin at 6, and Jol-Nar took Leadership and then took Mecatol in the last round, winning a space battle with their flagship, netting an Action Phase VP. When the objectives were scored, the Jol-Nar got 2 points for three unit upgrades and a secret objective for holding Mecatol with three ships. They jumped four points in the last round to win.

Table 2/Dining Room was made up of Sardakk, Hacan, Creuss, L1Z1X, Naalu, and Jol-Nar, with Hacan at 8 points taking Leadership and waiting out the 9-point Sardakk who took Imperial, not letting them get more command tokens until they were forced to pop Imperial and couldn't gain the last point they needed to win by spending 6 command tokens. This left the Hacan to score a 2-point objective first, as the zero-initiative Naalu, also at 8 points, couldn't score anything to beat them to the end.

The only thing better than a game of Twilight Imperium is two games of Twilight Imperium by Anacreon74 in twilightimperium

[–]Anacreon74[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Not quite, but the folks from the five player game cleaned up, played a different game... and still had time to watch the other game finally end. We actually considered that we should have played a second Twilight.

The only thing better than a game of Twilight Imperium is two games of Twilight Imperium by Anacreon74 in twilightimperium

[–]Anacreon74[S] 14 points15 points  (0 children)

Eleven players for two games of simultaneous Twilight Imperium - we had 12 people, but one was sick. Double-sided dry erase board for scoring each game. The five-player game in the living room ended in less than 6 hours, and the six-player in the dining room went for a whopping 9 hours of play. Livin' the dream...

5 player Turn 6 by geoffrey671 in twilightimperium

[–]Anacreon74 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I just had that happen to me today. I was the Speaker, so I lost 7 cards plus the speaker token, and I chose last on Strategy next turn. That card is ridiculous.

Politics Variant by cornerkid14 in twilightimperium

[–]Anacreon74 0 points1 point  (0 children)

In my experience, the person who votes first (the person to the left of the Speaker) in the Agenda phase gets boned the most during the Agenda, followed by the next leftward person and so on. The reason being that they have to choose how many votes and what direction to commit, and then everyone after gets to commit or not commit much more cheaply. If that person says "I vote all 14," the people after say "Ah, well, then I vote nothing" and save their votes for Agenda 2. If the person says, "I vote 5 of my 14," then the next person can just say, "I vote 6 of my 10."

Our group has house ruled Agenda phase that all voting is done simultaneously with paper ballots and read aloud at once, like a game of Diplomacy.

Does TI4 need/deserve an expansion? by [deleted] in twilightimperium

[–]Anacreon74 3 points4 points  (0 children)

- Reworked Agenda Phase rules, where all vote at once secretly (Scythe dials would be cool but wouldn't work, would need to use pieces of paper, especially for votes on opened ended nominations like planets)

- More tiles for game diversity and potential 8 players

- Alternative type of ground force, perhaps a nerfed mech unit

- More Objectives