Board Game Arena

The new Uplifts from Xeno Invation are quite strong Vp wise, and weak card wise. Goals balance them out making consume rush strategies less powerful and requiring them to be a bit less no brainer, but they still work pretty well. There are still ways to win at least one of the goals when you consume...

I think the main issue with Settti is that, in 95% of the cases, it give s you 7 points for free. 2 survey teams and setti itself. If both survey team gave only 1 eye then setti would give 4 less points, and it eouldbt be so dominant while still be a good generic game ender. On the other hand, uplif...

I think BGA doesnt use house rules unless the house rule is way too popular in a game that it becomes mostly standard. Thus, banning cards is probably out of the question. I think tho that Public works is way to broken in AA. Alien artifacts seems to be balanced around the Orb, as it slows the game ...

Expansions have different skill sets and some prefeer one from others, but the top ELO from Arena usually is between 1880 and 1930, which is pretty high for a card game I think. Its fine if you like the base game the most. Its probably the highest mind game oriented expansion, and a few decisions an...

Im pretty sure you get to see your opponent's actions after you select your first one. It should work that way.

My question would be this is there anyone who prefers to play vanilla without New Worlds in a competitive mode? I'm not playing the game, so don't put much value on my opinion but random start can force you to try to do good things with a bad start, which is not rewarded otherwise. But from what I ...

I cant speak for everyone, but i think the current Arena Season was just an accident due to lack of organization. I am a Guru myself, but i never was asked if i wanted to be one, I simply received a notification and i didnt know what being a game guru was and i wasnt particularly interested. I just ...

Since the most general stuff was mostly covered above, i want to talk about good cards to have: - The 6-cost develop Anti Xeno League is probably the most well rounded dev 6 in the expansion. You can fit it in almost any strategy and, like Setti, it gives you a ton of VP. You can also cheese the mil...

I guess we have two seasons of the same ruleset, so what will the next one be? Season 0-1 Gathering Storm + RvI + BoW takeovers enabled -> good ruleset Season 2-3 Gathering Storm + Rv1 + takeovers random -> it's ok except for random takeovers, just turn them on or off, I would say preferably on bec...

Hello, would like some opinions on that: I thought I was going to do the coolest play ever on turn one by burning my Colony ship (1) to set the Alien Sentinels world (2) thanks to having Alien Survey Technology (3) out. (1) The 2 dev you can discard from your board to set any world without paying c...