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Yeah, pretty sure "bear" should be "boar". Boar+boar+cook is a net gain of 2 food, 2 knives, 4 hide, which isn't quite as efficient as muster or tend land but is still pretty good (and it's nice to be able to cook 2 boar at once, as opposed to only one round of food from muster/t...

Not sure if these are bugs (as I don't know what the intended behavior should be), but they feel weird, or at least inconsistent: Is there supposed to be an anytime action window before the end of phase 1 but after drawing cards where builder can be used (idea being to see and play a new card)? As i...

Funny, I'd wanted to make the same argument about Muster. Evidently you're better at this game than I am, but I suspect Muster food spam can at least give comparable scores to whatever you're doing with Recruit (I'm consistently breaking 70 points with it, though maybe it gets worse against really g...

Anyone have any thoughts on what the strongest/weakest special actions are? From my experience, I'd rank them something like this (though it's entirely possible I've got suboptimal strategies for some, and if so I'd love to know about them): Strong: - Muster: Stack blue or yellow villagers (or if yo...

Fair point, maybe the idea is that low food games are supposed to be interesting rather than painful. But if that's the goal, maybe that case should be more common? (Ex: force no harvest on round 2.) Right now, 2/3 of games you have an even larger food cushion, and those games are still just about w...

I like most of mini-expansion 2. I like the harvest tokens creating more asymmetry and less first-player advantage. I like the idea of new islands (I suspect Mull might be too strong compared to other first column islands, but we'll see how that goes). But I don't see the fun in the random (and unkn...

Seems like a reasonable suggestion, but probably belongs on the BGA-wide forum rather than Ark Nova-specific: https://boardgamearena.com/forum/viewforum.php?f=3

Crazy suggestion: What if you could customize which side of the action boards you were playing, independent of the number of players? Maybe it'd make the game too friendly in lower player counts (particularly with the 1-man two upgrades spot, but maybe also the 2-man hunting game and 4-man three dou...

It's strong, but I think a lot of that came from the cheap reptiles more than the build over terrain. Without the ability to unflip those enclosures, you generated a whole 4 money and 4 appeal? It's not bad, but I'm not sure it counts as OP. Contrast with something like "don't discard" car...

You can play at most 2 animals per animals action. There's no reason you couldn't take the animals action multiple times per break cycle, but you're usually limited by money and/or how fast you can build enclosures. Cards are almost identical (Mascot Statue got renamed to Victory Column, and Arcade ...