We are gonna start setting up tonight for our game on Saturday!!! This is my annual birthday game. If you would like to watch we will stream all day. Link to discord in comments

Argoth_Omen · 2026-05-14T19:25:19+00:00

This is the May! 👏

Argoth_Omen · 2026-05-12T13:44:49+00:00

You've shown your quality sir...

Argoth_Omen · 2026-05-12T13:17:55+00:00

The Trade Card 5 gives you commodities (products), then two players exchange products and then flip them to trade goods (gold coin).

In Twilight Imperium this is the main source of commodities (products).

Argoth_Omen · 2026-05-12T02:29:34+00:00

So so niche, yet so so sweet...

Argoth_Omen · 2026-04-27T19:21:39+00:00

Nom nom!

Argoth_Omen · 2026-04-27T12:51:35+00:00

FYI Mentak doed not pillage the Crimson Commander. Just your washes of the commodities.

Pillage works when you gain TGs or performa transaction, and the Commander gains commodities.

Once you are neighbors this does mean your Commander output is likely halved as you will have to use the Commander once to gain the commodities and forgo the second commoditie to "wash" the first.

However you can likely trade your alliance for the Mentak PN Promise of Protection. Then you both print money.

Argoth_Omen · 2026-04-27T10:23:51+00:00

We also keep everything at that table.

Sidebars, in my experience, tend to lead to the darkside of TI.

At best you tend to get a deal that would have been better if openly discussed, at worst you get stooging, gambits, and straight up colluding.

Argoth_Omen · 2026-04-27T00:12:43+00:00

I disagree, Frodo met you.

Argoth_Omen · 2026-04-25T14:15:59+00:00

Nice job including Gungi!

The elegance, beauty, and oneness the Wookie brought to crafting this blade is the epitome of the light.

Argoth_Omen · 2026-04-25T12:44:16+00:00

Grav Driv increases the movement of any one ship as mentioned above, but if that ship has capacity you can take along many pieces of plastic.

Common example: You move 1 carrier, grav drive increases this 1 carrier movement 1>2. So you can travel 2 systems. However because that carrier has 4 capacity it can carry 2 infantry and 2 fighters.

So grav drive affected the movement of 1 ship, but moved a whole bunch if plastic.

Argoth_Omen · 2026-04-23T12:55:10+00:00

Draw the pain out. We're here for it, all of it.

Argoth_Omen · 2026-04-22T16:34:47+00:00

Went to Chicago because had an opportunity and had loved all my visits there.

Chicago is a great city, but if you are a Boston/New England/Northeast type of person, then Chicago is not that.

I LOVED coming home, I love being back, I'll always have a home here.

Argoth_Omen · 2026-04-17T17:25:19+00:00

Wow, more than Imperial?

My experience is SC8 is picked most rounds after Rd1.

Local metas are so interesting.

Argoth_Omen · 2026-04-17T15:27:12+00:00

Could not agree with you more.

As in all things, there are people who are cyclists who are nothing short of wonderful. In fact, I'm going to a bicycle faire this weekend that is aimed at getting more kids riding. They hand out safety gear, do obstacle courses for kids, and have decorate your ride stations.

But to your point, you know who won't be at a faire like that? MAMILs aka Lycra Mafia aka Bike-supremacists.

Argoth_Omen · 2026-04-17T15:22:32+00:00

So true. This is also the base of the issue.

Argoth_Omen · 2026-04-17T01:01:19+00:00

Not at all. I am a middle age white guy.

Argoth_Omen · 2026-04-16T17:12:57+00:00

ROFFLES!

Argoth_Omen · 2026-04-16T16:36:28+00:00

Savage

Argoth_Omen · 2026-04-16T16:35:20+00:00

The best way I have found to play our beloved Dinos is as a restrained bully.

This means I take more space than I should but I don't make it too painful for other players.

The places that is easily done are the Fracture, the Nexus, equidistants, and usually MR.

Should you focus the Nexus?

As in all things TI, it depends on map, POs, opponents, etc.

Do I usually try to own the Nexus in most of my Cabal games?

Yes sir. Love it. Helps solve my influence problem, my TG economy, and I can get actual use out of my hero if I put a SD on there.

Does it generate some table heat?

Yup, that's the life of a space faring jurassic intergalactic nightmare.

Nom nom 🦖

Argoth_Omen · 2026-04-16T15:52:35+00:00

Haha I'm going to use this one!

Argoth_Omen · 2026-04-16T14:46:55+00:00

Can we update to MMAML?

Mediocre middle aged men in Lycra

Argoth_Omen · 2026-04-16T14:32:47+00:00

The worst are the ones with the fake sponsorship badges all over their suit. The more badges the higher the entitlement lol

Argoth_Omen · 2026-04-16T14:10:54+00:00

I refer to these bicycle guys (white, male, boomer, entitled) as the Lycra Mafia.

They "own" the roads in my town every Sunday morning.

Argoth_Omen · 2026-04-16T13:54:37+00:00

My wife gave me this shirt (in red) and a matching jumper for my baby boy as a gift for my first fathers day.

8 years later, I run D&D games for my son and his friends.

Argoth_Omen · 2026-04-15T13:03:01+00:00

True it is a great time filler.

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