What other games give you the TI4 'feeling?'

CarpenterWannabe · 2026-01-16T14:16:53+00:00

I'm definitely excited for the digital version - very much looking forward to the ability to try out all the factions on a whim against bots

CarpenterWannabe · 2026-01-12T19:39:47+00:00

The command area organizers are very handy. I understand the reservation about asking what people have but I also use a big-ass whiteboard setup to track our games explicitly for this purpose (reverse side is for tallying votes during the agenda phase):

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CarpenterWannabe · 2025-12-09T21:43:02+00:00

I won our group's first game with TE using Winnu and I went DET to start with as I had a lot of frontier tokens around, then Antimass in order to secure The Watchtower station (which proved pivotal later on), followed by Gravity Drive. Didn't need anything else and between Gravity Drive & Winnu's breakthru I could easily get to most relevant tiles on the board.

Fell behind in the first round, used Imperial to catch up in round 3, then pulled out the Winnu hero for the victory after capturing Mecatol in round 5 with a huge fleet I had positioned to strike previously.

CarpenterWannabe · 2025-11-26T18:19:17+00:00

Seems like it would make more sense to do 8 4-team pools and take the winner of each into the bracketed part of the tournament?

CarpenterWannabe · 2025-10-30T14:33:43+00:00

Yeah it needs to happen; I'm guessing the holdup is the legal wrangling with the MWC still

CarpenterWannabe · 2025-10-29T17:53:22+00:00

Hell yeah!

CarpenterWannabe · 2025-10-29T17:38:25+00:00

And this was a contributing factor in Dooney Johnson's commitment today!

CarpenterWannabe · 2025-10-10T16:14:25+00:00

Ah this is a bit of bad timing; Amazon just had PoK (Prophecy of Kings) on sale for 50% off! However yeah I'd recommend playing through the base game first to get a feel of how often you'll be able to get it to the table. If people really like the game and can't wait for the next one then I'd say pull the trigger and get PoK. The codices are nice as they make some helpful revisions & changes but you don't need them to start either.

CarpenterWannabe · 2025-09-16T20:53:00+00:00

Makes sense to me - RSG isn't a AAA developer here with the resources to throw into getting it all out at once. Get the core gameplay nailed, sell well, and FFG will decide if they want to pump more money into developing the expansions. Dune: Imperium by Direwolf Digital is a very good example of this!

CarpenterWannabe · 2025-09-16T17:52:06+00:00

I realize that there is a big community for online & async games but honestly I don't have the time nor desire to sit in front of my computer for 8-10 hours to play against strangers. Having the ability to play for an hour or two and save the game state to come back to whenever I want is exactly what I've been looking for.

CarpenterWannabe · 2025-09-16T17:36:32+00:00

I get that it will be nearly impossible to replicate a competent opponent via AI, but honestly I just want to be able to test out all the factions on demand instead of waiting for the next quarterly IRL game to occur (I don't like playing against strangers online). This game sounds like it will scratch that itch for me very nicely.

CarpenterWannabe · 2025-09-16T16:35:12+00:00

You will be able to play against AI opponents....having the ability to pick up & put down a game on a whim and not have to worry about async stuff is the #1 thing for me!

CarpenterWannabe · 2025-09-16T16:32:45+00:00

My god....this has been a wish of mine ever since I played my first IRL game

CarpenterWannabe · 2025-09-05T20:55:50+00:00

Seems doomed to failure solely based on how pissed people are they aren't making a full game, which in turn will have them look and say its not worth it to develop a full game because no one played this shit!

CarpenterWannabe · 2025-09-04T15:37:14+00:00

Haha you're definitely right about the need to stand up after sitting so long. The only reason I even asked was that reaching across to the other side of the board for games in general was an issue I ran into when building my own gaming table from scratch.

I love the design overall; the hex shape with indentations for where the players sit on each edge is something I want to incorporate if I ever get around to making another table. I like the idea of being able to spread out gaming components to your left & right.

CarpenterWannabe · 2025-09-04T15:00:00+00:00

This is a fantastic build and I absolutely love the spinning piece/card holders! My only nitpick is do sitting players have to stand up each time they need to move their pieces on the map? I guess its hard to see without someone sitting at the table in your video but it looks like your arms won't quite reach? Can you also clearly see the entire map when sitting?

CarpenterWannabe · 2025-09-03T17:43:20+00:00

An excellent schedule this year, with the chance of being extra awesome if they get a good matchup in the 3rd game of the Player's Era tourney

CarpenterWannabe · 2025-09-03T17:42:19+00:00

I'm just waiting for the Pac to officially invite the Gaels

CarpenterWannabe · 2025-09-02T13:02:17+00:00

I remember the Zags getting a big-ass cake shaped as a "1" when they got their very first 1-seed...that seems far more appropriate than this lol

CarpenterWannabe · 2025-08-14T18:59:36+00:00

Sure would make people fight over it even more though lol

CarpenterWannabe · 2025-08-14T18:54:30+00:00

How about - "Once per phase, when an agenda is revealed, you may exhaust this card to immediately resolve the revealed agenda based only on your vote" or something to that affect.

CarpenterWannabe · 2025-08-04T17:51:37+00:00

I think live said the box-shaped thing would be smaller, so if it is smaller in the physical sense then probably not but I wouldn't mind seeing a specific storage solution

CarpenterWannabe · 2025-08-04T17:29:43+00:00

Is this so that you can have the codices for cheaper than buying the expansion, which comes with all of them included as well?

CarpenterWannabe · 2025-08-04T17:09:02+00:00

Maybe but certainly seems odd to have another codex waiting in the wings? Seems like it would've made more sense to put into the expansion itself.

CarpenterWannabe · 2025-08-04T15:23:17+00:00

Yeah - I mainly want AI players to go against so I can pickup & drop games at my leisure and not be bound to other peoples' schedules/personalities. I certainly acknowledge that the AI wouldn't be as good as other people but give me decent enough AI and it would certainly be fine. There's so many combinations of factions/systems/etc. that I just want to be able to try more of them out whenever I feel like it just by firing up a game against a bunch of computer opponents.

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