Hi bloodies, and welcome to the TTA forum and to TTA, best boargame ever
There are so many tips for this game... but if I had to give you just ONE, that will be the following : science is the key (even if it may give you critical advantage late in the game !)
Enjoy your games !
To me this is a bit of a too wide scope of exclusion: why not just exclude the red thumbs you gave to someone from the table you create? Because for 1 person giving you a red thumb, you then can't join tables with maybe 5/6 people who gave you a green thumb? This can lead to a lot of abuses I think,...