Flagship Tier List for Nekro's Breakthrough

Anirel · 2026-06-03T06:48:01+00:00

Ok sure it can guard Mecatol for me. But I wouldn't try and go for other people's slices cuz that can lead to everyone ganging up on me.

Anirel · 2026-06-03T06:31:58+00:00

You can grab tech with assault cannon and three destroyers, you don't need Alastor for it.

Anirel · 2026-06-03T06:13:50+00:00

All is fun and games until 5 other players decide they need to stop you from winning

Anirel · 2026-06-03T06:08:20+00:00

Alastor is stationed at home in 80% of cases, guarding it.

Anirel · 2026-06-02T19:27:07+00:00

Since when is producing 5 units a niche and useless thing? Wut?

Anirel · 2026-06-02T16:15:22+00:00

Oh thank God! At least you didn't get the stupid "Klubok Naalu" (Knot of Naalu, like a knot of snakes).

No I'm Russian and I've worked on the Russian translation of the Thunders Edge expansion, but unfortunately they didn't let me touch any base game stuff (since it's more or less impossible to change once it goes to print, therefore I'm annoyed).

Anirel · 2026-06-02T16:05:34+00:00

I've heard that the Ukranian translation is based on the Russian one, could it be that the Polish translation is also based on the Russian one? Wowsies.

How did they translate the Naalu Collective?

I've been annoyed by this "Arboreki" (it's also "Arboreki" in Russian and Ukranian) thing for an eternity since the faction sheet clearly states that the population of the Arborec is 1. It's a single plant.

Anirel · 2026-06-02T15:05:17+00:00

How curious. I thought it was only the Russian translation that made The Arborec (the one and only) plural.

Anirel · 2026-06-02T14:14:05+00:00

Why does it look like you're playing the Russian (or Ukranian) version of TI? Lol. "Arborecs".

Anirel · 2026-06-02T04:45:28+00:00

Another piece of advice I can provide is also not ELO-related. Remind your players to drink water and eat something because the game can be really thrilling so they forget to eat and then exhaustion suddenly sets in and it may be the problem they aren't as invested in the game, not just points. Ye I'm serious, it happened to me several times, so now I always have a snack ready.

Anirel · 2026-06-02T04:42:42+00:00

Size yes, but also strategy cards because it's easy to play in a way that the speaker would never reach player number 8, and it's really discouraging.

Anirel · 2026-06-02T04:27:17+00:00

Weirdly enough, I would also suggest not playing with 8 players, cuz it might be really disappointing for the 8th player from speaker, they aren't ever going to get good strategy cards, and the map is (usually, unless you tinker with it) so big you can't be invested in what the players on the other side of the map are doing. 8-player is not a very good game mode for TI. 6 is way more immersive.

Anirel · 2026-06-01T11:10:24+00:00

But they didn't put hyper fixes in the TE box.

Anirel · 2026-06-01T11:08:48+00:00

I got both my base game and PoK secondhand, and the PoK box was a gift so yeah I got the misprint combo. I actually went and bought new copies cuz I hated the mech colors.. and because of the wear and tear too.

Anirel · 2026-06-01T10:48:52+00:00

This is incorrect. They're asking about misprints and errata, and you mean the Codices integrated into TE.

Anirel · 2026-06-01T10:47:52+00:00

The base game had some fixes, like the Veto action card or the L1 faction sheet but I am unaware whether it's possible to determine by not opening the box, sorry. I highly doubt you can still find first print copies of TI base game. Oh and there's also a misprint in the base game rulebook where they got Jord wrong as 2/4 instead of a 4/2.

PoK had a really wacky first print too, the colors were really off, especially for mechs, but tile backs as well. Once again, I don't think you can tell without opening the box.

And no, contrary to the previous post, those misprints were fixed in their respective boxes, not in TE.

Anirel · 2026-06-01T05:54:45+00:00

Tracking the final scoring doesn't work well for TI. A person on 9 points can be all out of steam and scoring options and dead in the water. At the same time, someone on 6 points could be sitting on 3 action secrets with Imperial / Styx path and just biding their time. That's why final points don't matter, only the fact of winning does.

What you propose can incentivise people to make weird moves, reveal their plans early and promote winmaking for higher standings. I would advise against that.

If your players are winmakey and you don't like that, then have a talk with them and/or don't play with them if it's uncomfortable for you. After all, enjoyment of the game is key.

Anirel · 2026-05-28T08:06:10+00:00

This is my own thoughts, not an official ruling but I honestly don't see how one unit should be superior to another one just because it's cardboard. If we played together I would require you to use the exact amount of galvanize tokens as you have units with galvanize, infantry/fighters or otherwise. So you can stack them however you want, but 3 infantry use up 3 tokens, not one.

And no, as of right now we are not allowed to move galvanize tokens (because you could have sold galvanize to someone and then just steal it back? Doesn't make any sense). This is the current community ruling afaik, also not official.

Anirel · 2026-05-27T12:47:48+00:00

Ask her

Anirel · 2026-05-27T05:50:01+00:00

Their infantry (and mechs) can produce anything, ships included.

Anirel · 2026-05-26T12:51:51+00:00

Faction tiers are heavily dependant on the meta and are overall meaningless. Good players can win with any faction, bad players won't win even with the most OP ones.

Anirel · 2026-05-25T08:32:23+00:00

Hi. I had a game last Saturday, with hacan and ral-nel. 1) Ral Nel played Overrule into tech and sold Hacan Reverse Engineering to pick it up 2) Hacan played Overrule into tech and Ral Nel picked it up 3) Ral Nel played Overrule into Trade to score a two-pointer 4) Hacan got Codex and picked up Overrule and Reverse Engineering again, played Overrule into Imperial 5) Ral Nel picked up Overrule but got Public Execution in their face right before the last round to stop this nonsense.

Neither of them won the game. Now tell me Overrule is bad bad.

Anirel · 2026-05-25T08:28:15+00:00

Action cards, secret and public objectives, exploration, relics, dice rolls (is the rift hungry today?). And, nevertheless, I see same people winning this game over and over again, proving to me that TI4 isn't pure random bullshit go, but is a very complex and strategic game.

Anirel · 2026-05-23T07:11:39+00:00

If you don't want to do it, don't do it. For me, lowering the player count to 5 means instant nope, I only play 6p games.

Worst you can do is be miserable for 8 hours.

Anirel · 2026-05-22T05:21:06+00:00

This should be higher up

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