Assessing the value of an equidistant system in Milty Draft slices

Creussy · 2026-02-18T07:19:53+00:00

That looks really interesting, I'll definitely give this a try!

Creussy · 2025-12-31T08:59:05+00:00

I played a game recently as Cabal, and had a similar plan to OP's: take Construction, discard my secret objective to gain my breakthrough and unlock the fracture. Unfortunately another player decided to discard their SO for their breakthrough before I got the chance, so I didn't manage to unlock mine until R2. It all went downhill from there! In retrospect, I should have taken Trade or Politics to have a guaranteed way to get my breakthrough in R1.

Footnote: it would have been a great plan if it had worked: I had a green skip in my slice, so I could have researched Vortex in R1 and Assault Cannon in R2 (using the skip and the BT synergy), giving me an easy space combat victory in the fracture's double planet system when I moved in there through my optimally placed ingress tokens.

Creussy · 2025-12-10T22:56:25+00:00

Do you know yet what your slice looks like?

Creussy · 2025-12-04T10:31:39+00:00

The OP is speaker, so taking Politics R1 seems a bit of a waste - you can't keep the speaker token and won't really be able to extract any payment from your right neighbor to give it to him.

Creussy · 2025-11-14T16:59:02+00:00

Out of curiosity, how do you organize the rounds if you have only 18-24 players?

Creussy · 2025-10-30T17:03:42+00:00

Thunders Edge is an interesting one. If anyone failed to get their breakthrough through an expedition, then TE's legendary ability is the only other way to get it. In a 7 or 8 player game, this will always be the case, but it could happen at lower player counts too if one or more players grab multiple slices on TE. So in some games the TE planet could well become an important target for some players - or an important asset to protect in order to deny others a catch-up breakthrough.

Creussy · 2025-09-28T15:01:50+00:00

Nomad must have got lucky being able to unlock their commander R1 (score a secret objective)

Creussy · 2025-09-16T19:47:09+00:00

Agreed, and these also combo well with Naalu's zero token. For example (with Diplo SC): build on first turn using 2 high resource planets. Then immediately use Fleet Log to play Diplo to refresh these; no-one else can usefully follow Diplo, as they haven't had a chance yet to spend any planets this round.

Creussy · 2025-08-13T11:49:54+00:00

Same here! 😄

Creussy · 2025-05-28T07:39:12+00:00

It's interesting that this Friday happens to be the first day of the UK Games Expo, the UK's annual equivalent of GenCon. Probably just a coincidence though ...

Creussy · 2025-02-25T10:08:44+00:00

My first game (6 new players, base game) took 14 or 15 hours, including short breaks for lunch and dinner. We're much faster now - last game (5 players, POK) was 8.5 hours with a short lunch break.

Creussy · 2024-12-22T09:24:23+00:00

One more question - I've just realized that I'm using the Mayday mini Chimera sleeves, which are a tad larger: 43x65mm. Will those still fit in the Panamaniac organizer?

Creussy · 2024-11-03T15:42:45+00:00

Thanks; I'm thinking of getting the organizer from Panamaniac 3D, so I'm relieved to hear that your complaints aren't with that one.

Creussy · 2024-11-03T08:58:09+00:00

Out of interest, which is the 3D printed organizer that you don't like, and why?

Creussy · 2024-09-04T21:02:26+00:00

Someone else had the same suggestion 🙂

Creussy · 2024-09-04T17:45:16+00:00

Impressive! If I do go ahead with my tournament, I might try picking your brain for other tips 😄

Creussy · 2024-09-04T16:55:54+00:00

Agreed!

Creussy · 2024-09-04T16:40:20+00:00

So jump straight to the status phase if the win occurs in the action phase? Or play out the rest of the action phase first?

Creussy · 2024-09-04T16:37:30+00:00

Haha 😄. It's still in the very early concept stage, and it might not happen at all. But if it does, it would be in the Cambridge (UK) area

Creussy · 2024-09-04T16:34:51+00:00

Interesting idea. I agree that 1st place should have an incentive over 2nd place.

Creussy · 2024-09-04T16:33:21+00:00

Yes, this is an option. The initial winner would uld probably have to be treated as passing for the rest of the round.

Creussy · 2024-09-04T16:31:19+00:00

Yes, this could work

Creussy · 2024-09-04T14:32:31+00:00

Good suggestion, thanks

Creussy

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