Game History

21/11/15

Barony of Letnev - Roman

Embers of Muuat - Michael

Emirates of Hacan - Rhiannon

Ghosts of Creuss - James

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4-round bubble victory for Creuss, based on 2 artefacts, Voice of the Council, and a Precursor Space Station (plus steady acquisition of POs).

Notes:- Early acquisition of planets stymied by hostile ground forces and fighters on several planets. Losing a couple of GF here and there is not the issue so much as the delay in acquiring worlds and being able to ramp up your production. Only one player had Deep Space Cannon (to probe neighbouring systems) and no one had Cybernetics, so most people were going in blind most of the time - and getting unlucky.

Hacan delayed using Trade (it wasn't selected in the 1st round), which hurt everyone but none more so than the Hacan themselves. Muuat had a nice starting position, but early reverses with Distant Sun encounters delayed the building of infrastructure too long. Letnev built up a nice military force but was out-maneuvered in the Galactic Council. None were in a terribly bad position, but they were all too slow for the Creuss who took the prize while everyone else was still getting to grips with the best way to play the game.

There were a few skirmishes with feisty neutrals but there was no player-on-player military action, at least partly because the first to do this would have lost 1 VP due to a law passed by the Galactic Council.

Next time:-


 * Full 10 VP for victory (instead of 9)


 * Leaders didn't add anything, so we'll give them a miss next time


 * Wormhole Nexus didn't add anything either


 * Find missing planet cards or remove corresponding tiles from play first


 * I thought Distant Suns/Final Frontiers worked well - but more reference sheets would be handy