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Playing a sponsor card for three appeal and an icon is still mostly better than breaking for cash.

Sorry,still not clear,so is that actually a rule in the second version ? Part of the problem arises because the English translation of ''everybody should' might or might not refer to a mandatory instruction.

I haven't/couldn't translate the original rules.But I couldn't see anything in the English Rules to prohibit passing in the first two rounds.It seems to be permitted by the BGA interface,which has a pass option [I haven't tested that,for obvious reasons].

Pretty sure that that should work,so please file a bug report.

There has to be one -to comply with the rules,and yes,it should ask for confirmation.Some of these default options that you really wouldn't want to take are a little too in-your-face.

Ok,fine,only the act of buying the animals tends to leave me poor.So then I can't afford to buy a longship for a while,and if I take one with wood,I alert my opponent,and wind up probably going after them in the turn sequence next turn.Maybe I should try sheep istead of cattle.

The trouble with the animal strategy in the base game is not that it scores badly - it can score quite well.It is that it leaves the other players free to whale, pillage and explore without interference,so they tend to score better.

If there are plenty of islands,then trying to monopolise them becomes a losing strategy.The Norwegians also helps a bit with better animal options.

In the basic game,4-player,the metagame seems to have developed into a scramble for Islands,and even long and stone houses.Two turns into my current tournament game,all the Islands had been taken,and there was nothing left to explore.This makes for a less interesting game,so I suggest that tournamen...

Steam is a pain to have on a PC - it starts up automatically and uses loads of memory. [Unless that's changed since I last used it]. Hopefully,the owners should allow the expansion on BGA now