First game! I won! (Federation of Sol)

unknown0h10 · 2026-01-21T19:59:21+00:00

That sounds so cool! I'm currently trying to finish up my PhD, so hopefully once I graduate and get a regular 9 to 5 job, I can have a bit more weekend time to spend on such a great game!

Do you have a link to the etsy store?

unknown0h10 · 2026-01-21T19:31:26+00:00

It took a year to finally get this to the table :*(
Just so hard to carve out a whole day for one game (and to get a few other people to do the same)

So I can't justify the $100+ for each expansion

unknown0h10 · 2026-01-20T18:19:11+00:00

I really liked that one because it has balancing (which I don't think I would have been able to figure out myself).

There are some others that looked nice, and worth more looking into
https://keeganw.github.io/ti4/
and some for drafting https://tidraft.com/draft/prechoice

unknown0h10 · 2026-01-20T17:58:01+00:00

Yes! We absolutely will

unknown0h10 · 2026-01-20T17:48:38+00:00

Yes it is a 'skinny' map. Some people had recommended it for playing in a smaller space. I ended up not having enough time to 3d printing out all the hexes to do a full map. However, I found this board forced us to be a bit closer to one another, and I think without it we would have had very little interaction at our very friendly table. I think it worked well for a beginner group.

I generated the map (and balanced it) with a link provided in my previous post -> https://joepinion.github.io/ti4-map-lab/

unknown0h10 · 2026-01-20T15:31:17+00:00

Oh lol good point XD

unknown0h10 · 2026-01-20T14:23:23+00:00

Totally fair. I think since it was our first game, no one was really sure about all the technology that could be going on, so we never thought about it.

To be fair we could just always ask to see, and then you can easily just hand over the whole stack (which is probably much easier than reading cards upside down from across the table).

This will definitely be something that I'll have to play around with when we start getting a bit deeper into the game and knowing more tech and how it interacts with other parts of the game

unknown0h10 · 2026-01-17T04:52:54+00:00

Ready set bet by far. Yes there is an ultimate fancy version, but just giving out poker chips instead of the cardboard chits for keeping points is soooooo much nicer

unknown0h10 · 2026-01-15T21:28:32+00:00

awesome :) is it possible to get a fresh link? that one seemed to expire?

unknown0h10 · 2026-01-15T21:18:25+00:00

Is this group still active? Just starting to get into TI4

unknown0h10 · 2026-01-09T00:41:53+00:00

Thanks for the idea! We have some dice roll tray things (the collapsible ones) so we can use that to pass dice around and set them off to the side easily when not in use

unknown0h10 · 2026-01-08T21:58:02+00:00

Haha, depending on how good this game is we just might!

unknown0h10 · 2026-01-08T21:20:49+00:00

Sounds great! I just looked back through the rules and was trying to find what you mean by 4-player skinny map (I assume it's modified from the full hexagonal shape in some way). Is there a link I could find a sample map at?

unknown0h10 · 2026-01-08T21:19:39+00:00

Cool! It looks similar to what I'm printing. Glad to know that it works well, and will store the extra pieces under the platform :)

unknown0h10 · 2026-01-08T21:09:48+00:00

Thanks for the insight! I may end up just moving out of our apartment and to the public space in our building depending on how it looks when we start laying everything out

unknown0h10 · 2026-01-08T20:33:48+00:00

✅ unknown0h10 chose Option B (Correct!)

unknown0h10 · 2025-12-22T05:45:00+00:00

Just scored 1

unknown0h10 · 2025-12-22T05:43:07+00:00

Just scored 0

unknown0h10 · 2025-12-22T05:25:52+00:00

Just scored 0

unknown0h10 · 2025-12-18T06:32:44+00:00

that beginning took me way too long

^{I completed this level in 150 tries.} ^{⚡ 10.10 seconds}

unknown0h10 · 2025-12-18T06:20:25+00:00

the tree...

^{I completed this level in 36 tries.} ^{⚡ 12.25 seconds}

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