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It's that season again, where the transfer portal belches out a new crop of five-stars, coaches try to justify their poor decisions on radio call-in shows, and boosters start to mutter about putting together the money for a buyout after some embarrassing stumbles in season-opening games. In short, i...

After a few games: 1. The passage of time runs through buildings left. They are advanced by building stuff and by finishing river journeys. Most players are building too aggressively and not looking at regional influence or deliveries, especially in 4 player mode. 2. There are points for second plac...

The setting is a vibe, I've appreciated L5R from afar for a long time. I'm enjoying moving my little boat around and accumulating resources, but I would appreciate a rundown of what some of the more popular strategies are, what the trade-offs are, and if there's a sort of rock paper scissors to take...

Interesting! I've been thinking about that combo as a thing to play around with, but hadn't committed to it. Thanks for the legwork!

Co-sign. I keep making lots of goofy mistakes that I can't undo before committing to.

Any time I'm not playing with the starter cards, I have a lot of trouble getting my engine going. Not enough cards, too much knowledge. Anyone have advice to reliably get those first couple monuments going?

It's one of the few areas between player regions that's not separated by border states. If I'm playing as texas, the opportunity to grab it from Orange is very hard to pass up. I feel like it's the Kamchatka of this game. Any other particular favorite territories or regions that you love to hate? I'...

This put into words a number of things I had been thinking about, though I will note I have some personal idiosyncracies. I tend to prefer cost reduction and movement, mainly because I appreciate having flexibility and the ability to pivot after opponents. I'm also frequently bad at advance calculat...

useful clarification: I was today years old when I realized that BDP is 3 booster bucks for ALL envelopes to put a card into play, not 3:1 per envelope. I am now going to grab that a lot more often.

Money generation seems like it should be useful but I feel like I can't remember the cards I need to turn them into VPs, so I end up forgetting them or letting them fall down the discard pile hole when it resets every three months. Like, I really would love to see replays or playthroughs about how t...