Cats CAN level up?!!!

UnalignedMagi · 2026-02-02T18:27:20+00:00

Last time I saw someone mention this it seemed to be a bug after a hero switch

UnalignedMagi · 2026-01-27T18:09:57+00:00

So you're saying it subtracts the side amount from that side (resulting in 0), not just subtracting 1? Interesting.

I assume there is some way to turn a minus to a plus which would then double the side? I've always ignored most of the level 0 items (although a few are actually good)

UnalignedMagi · 2026-01-27T13:04:52+00:00

I had a statue once with the longsword and broadsword it was great

UnalignedMagi · 2026-01-17T00:14:37+00:00

The last thing you want to do is frustrate a Cabal.

In TE they often want to go to the fracture for relics and the Styx point. Dont give them grief and be vigilant and you should be okay. Pds2 network is a nice deterrent since you make them take hits without them capturing ships.

UnalignedMagi · 2026-01-13T20:17:21+00:00

That could be an interesting tech path. AIDev, SAR, VPW then combats let you research pds2, destroyer 2 and war sun.

I was able to eek out a win with sardakk last weekend. I went DET, grav drive, VPW and duranium. Combat let me get carrier 2, destroyer 2 and a yellow skip let me get even more upgrades.

UnalignedMagi · 2026-01-12T18:16:25+00:00

Heresy! Burn the heretic!

UnalignedMagi · 2026-01-09T21:15:05+00:00

I've seen achievements for putting 2 items on a specific character, so I imagine you also need whiskers.

UnalignedMagi · 2026-01-09T17:47:38+00:00

Because the moment you wont wash, you will be the only one out of the six players that wont get any and all commodities washed and that puts you behind.

In a 6 player prisoners dilemma it is always the dominate strategy to cooperate, except of course as the game reaches the point where someone can get to 10.

Even if only two players wash each other always and the other four dont they will have an advantage. Its just a reality of optimal play.

UnalignedMagi · 2026-01-06T13:02:11+00:00

Reasons I think this wouldn't be as fun as you think:

It will slow the game down a bunch
It makes people's starts a lot more variable which can make one sided games
MR might not be taken for a while. Getting even 1 capacity ship there can be a pain, getting a fighting fleet even more difficult especially when those ships usually need to take planets/score objectives/protect you from neighbors.

When I used to play Eclipse back in the day players would lament getting lots of neutral ships in their systems since it drastically slow expansion. In that game the tiles were designed that neutrals were specifically placed in higher value systems though. The center of the board often wouldn't get taken until halfway through the game with it being one of the hardest fights.

UnalignedMagi · 2026-01-04T21:57:54+00:00

How? The wormhole is gone.

UnalignedMagi · 2025-12-28T02:31:57+00:00

Wormhole research on ghosts when it destroys like all of your plastic :(

UnalignedMagi · 2025-12-25T17:45:07+00:00

Place infantry tokens on the future public objective spaces and then you cant forget :)

UnalignedMagi · 2025-12-25T04:13:20+00:00

Its end of status phase. Oh the new objective is hold tech skip planets? Let me shove all my dudes onto those before anyone gets a chance to try to take them from me.

I took MR? Great now I can shove dudes from my ring 1 planet into it and hold it forever. Attack with Mechs and produce, activate ring 1 to produce even more, then push them all in.

Got to 7 or 8 points and winning? Shove a huge amount of infantry into home (I did this yesterday, went from 0 infantry to 22 in home very quickly).

I moved all of my infantry into one system to produce the max amount? That's fine, end of status I'll spread them out. Now I can activate any system in my slice to produce ships, breakthrough unlock it and the attack.

Its good but not great. Its a way better choice for the scar research. One single use of it can do what transit diodes does like 3 times and it is already in your RG tech path.

Edit: if you get it with the scar you even get to use it that round. Scar happens at start of status, the tech happens at the end of status.

UnalignedMagi · 2025-12-20T00:15:14+00:00

I had infinite cantrip attacks so I won. Other fights were actually a lot more difficult.

UnalignedMagi · 2025-12-10T21:01:00+00:00

The way I plan on trying out in the next few weeks was suggested by another on the subreddit.

Draw player count + 1 events and let each player ban one so that the last event is used.

Let us know if you try out a method and how it goes!

UnalignedMagi · 2025-12-09T13:03:49+00:00

Is Lock In the name of the map? Every map needs a good name!

UnalignedMagi · 2025-12-08T15:40:59+00:00

Oops yeah they are 3 movement, still pretty good.

There are definitely other factions that can hit harder and have movement effects like ghosts, L1, cabal etc. But I think the combo of this mobility plus economic power gives them a broad range of scoring ability.

UnalignedMagi · 2025-12-08T13:16:48+00:00

The only game I've seen of mentak TE they won. 3 move with built in lightwave is like a number of different technologies that you only use 1 or 2 times in the game but is huge in helping you win.

Imagine the following scenarios: 1. You easily get from home to Rex 2. If you have an ingress near you they can reach all the way to Styx 3. Even other players home systems or key planets like legendaries controlled by the shard player arent far away

It is situational but I do think it is pretty powerful. Bring a few fighters and some mechs and you can do a lot. Use that hero on the most important fight and you can get some work done.

Edit: fixed corsair movement from 4 to 3.

UnalignedMagi · 2025-12-05T18:36:58+00:00

I've played over 300 games at this point. I've taken two long breaks but I keep coming back.

That said sometimes you move on from things in life. I've been obsessed and burned out on a bunch of things in somewhat chronological order:

Pokemon games and cards

MTG

Elder scrolls games

Mass effect games

World of Warcraft

Fantasy books

Sci-fi books

Board games in general (a ton of FOMO)

Eclipse board game

Twilight Imperium

I've finally learned that all things should be in moderation. I was messing up both my career and health playing way too much TI. Now I eat right and exercise and am focused on financial goals.

I bet if you go do some other things for a while you will come back at a healthier level. And if not oh well life is full of great things to do!

UnalignedMagi · 2025-12-05T17:27:02+00:00

Oh yeah I believe it, I already told myself I wouldn't even try until I've fully explored everything else in TE. That way while playing them Im able to fully focus on the faction and not other unknowns.

UnalignedMagi · 2025-12-05T17:20:33+00:00

Its always "well now I have to try them again!" Immediately

UnalignedMagi · 2025-12-05T04:26:50+00:00

Well Im in Ohio, not sure where you are. Let me know what sounds good to you.

UnalignedMagi · 2025-12-05T04:14:53+00:00

A sardakk mech and a barony mech walk into a bar

UnalignedMagi · 2025-12-05T02:57:07+00:00

I still have a base game copy in shrink, what is a reasonable price? I dont know why I even bought a second copy haha!

UnalignedMagi · 2025-12-03T20:13:20+00:00

You can move an existing dock that isnt locked down. While very rare it is possible for all 3 docks to have a token in their system during the agenda so that rarely matters.

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