Board Game Arena

Turn average is a bit tricky, is not necessarily a great metric of strength. Many top players have somewhere between 29 and 31. But the differences are more down to style i think. Some players break more aggressively and value sponsors a bit less and will have a lower average. Others play more spons...

As for extensions that just count things that were publicly visible, I don't care. Thematic strategy games are not intended to be "memory" games, so why do I care if someone has an extension that helps them remember information they could just be writing down with pen and paper? Like I sa...

Eagles are solid but not broken. The sun bear is a much better animal and best animal in game imo because it does the same thing usually but has the upside of being a 2 size animal. High value 2 size animals have massive upside because of the 2-size reward being so crucial. Thing with eagle is that ...

Now that map pack 2 has been in been Arena for a while I wonder what people's opinions are. In my opinion the quality of the new maps is overall fairly poor, here are my opinions: Map 11 - Caves. 3/10. I dislike this map because it feels the strategy is too obvious: get 1 uni, get 1 partner zoo and ...

Don't consider this rude at all. Knowing that some players dislike it i'll avoid doing it myself sometimes but often it's just clear who won and the last turn doesn't really add anything. If anything the game should fix how ~50% gameplay is determined. The way points progress in this game you often ...

I assume in the creation of the interface, the designers mimicked language and rules from the game itself. However, I really wish whenever you are prompted to choose what do with between the cards you have that there was some consistency. Some situations call for you to "discard x" cards ...

Mostly because there are a bunch of solid to great action cards with sponsors #2 one of them but depending on the map a bunch of others which are better. Question then, which do you consider better that you would pick over money sponsors with the little info you get (map, player order, base project...

Tell them son, make the devs fix it! Also koalas are not bears, and petting zoo animals are multi species, herbivore, bird, rodent. Would actually be good if some of the petting zoo animals would get another icon I think. Always found it dull that some petting zoo are vanilla while others have abil...

I don't think it's strongest by a large margin. I do think the action card draft sucks. Mostly because there are a bunch of solid to great action cards with sponsors #2 one of them but depending on the map a bunch of others which are better. The big problem is that there are just a whole bunch of th...

Abandoning is fine I think. Yes it can be abused and there should be an option to abandon before any game information is revealed. But I can understand if players want to abandon because matchmaking isn't ideal. If you're >600 ELO you still get 200 ELO constantly despite putting matchmaking restrict...