Board Game Arena

I've played with all the official expansions in person and I'm personally not a fan of both Venus and Turmoil On top of the venus corps i.e. Manutech points, I dislike how Venus allows the first player to push one parameter every gen. Obviously this makes the game end quicker but why tf does the exi...

The one thing I find surprising is the original post: I do not understand why most of the games I see is without draft, this includes Strong and Expert players also. All Arena games and most tournaments feature a draft. Non-draft is the exception from what I can see. Perhaps in Play settings, if yo...

https://boardgamearena.com/table?table=886994644 I played another game against the bot and again completely destroyed it 143 v 73. I swept all milestones again as well as the awards. The bot had so many misplays, and it again sat on a ton of money every round and just passed with >50. Some of its dr...

https://boardgamearena.com/table?table=886844932 I played a game against the bot today, and imo it performed quite poorly (I scored 145 vs its 77). The drafting decisions are generally good but it was sitting with a LOT of money and just passing directly every generation. However, I was playing UNMI...

When my IRL group switched to drafting I witnessed in real time one of my then favourite board games become much lengthier and *significantly* less fun. I loved improvising with what I had without drafting - and the relationships between the cards I was offered. And I loathe having to look to the p...

Interesting. Drafting really is what put me off playing TM in person - it really added to the game length (which was already getting hefty with any non prelude expansions) and the game started outstaying its welcome on the table (for me). It also meant I had to consider hate drafting - which isn't ...

I do not understand why most of the games I see is without draft, this includes Strong and Expert players also. From my experience, playing TFM without draft is basically a game of luck of who draws the better cards. Sure there are SP but ultimately TFM is a card drawing game and you aren't going to...

I have only played this game once over the board, and I've noticed that there does not appear to be any luck element in this game (unlike card draw games like Terraforming Mars), and all game mechanics surround player actions. Does this mean that theoretically, there is an "optimal" strate...

From my experience the base game is about "plant your tableau first". This is because you cannot really stop or punish others if they are able to get down discount and soil generating terrains (or just cheap cards in general) and that really just cuts down the turns of what you can do. The...

There is a very good case to be made that you rarely need to know the exact score. Maybe at ultra high-stake games, which the majority of on BGA are not. Plus, when you have the option to do it anyway, you are killing the intrigue in a ton of games where people may prefer to not know. I know this w...