Board Game Arena

I would say, about a year ago you can completely retreat to any empty or friendly hexes... Then they changed to any empty or friendly hexes that are closer or equal to any ONE of your colonies. But it doesn't matter, because a good player should know you MUST block your opponent from retreating into...

I don't think it's in 1v1, but in 4 players I believe there is such a thing as “short games” where you just need colony points to win... However I would say such rule is not really playable as it is immensely relying on luck by praying you get an alien world close to you. Plus multiplayer space empi...

Interestingly, when I win in a 2v2, I'm counted as tied with the "lower level player" and punished for it. This doesn't make sense, for example it should be easier for me to ally with “Tactical Surrender”(266 elo at that time) than with "cheesecap4u"(129 elo at that time). Howeve...