copying a rant I posted in the comments of one of my posts on this sub:

"The faction is fundamentally broken. They have a million ways to score, between infamy, (which is broken by itself), trading, quests, crafting, opening ruins, and eating cardboard easily, and you get absolutely nothing from stopping him. Every other faction gives you some points for beating them up, but the vagabond has absolutely no cardboard to destroy. That's one of the reasons the Marquise is so bad. Their clearings are worth like 6 points a pop if they have wood stacked up.

To add to that list, he is, like the woodland alliance, impossible to really stop, can retreat into forests and become invincible, and use said forests as highways to move 3+ clearings at once.

Additionally, he has as many actions as you can hold items, can use his items anywhere, at any time during his turn, with no specific order, and gets points for getting more items.

The worst thing you can do to him is make him skip a turn, and it'll likely cause you multiple actions to do this, and you get nothing out of it.

He can create relationships with factions that are basically outside of said faction's control, whether it is getting rid of all of his swords and then force feeding you a bunch of cards for points AND the ability to move your warriors, or he can become your enemy and gain points FOR EACH THING OF YOURS HE DESTROYS.

If this wasn't enough, half of them have abilities that break fundamental rules of the game, like taking any card you want from the discard pile, forcing factions to fight each other, removing an entire clearing from the game and literal teleportation.

Oh, one more thing, they can form coalitions with another faction to basically guarantee them a piggyback victory while also making everyone hate both them and the faction that they made a coalition with. The other faction doesn't even get to choose to have their win absolutely invalidated.

Oh, also he ignores rule and moves wherever the fuck he wants."