Board Game Arena

I remember lots of discussions with Tom Lehmann, the designer of the game, about exactly such things when I had the feeling that "in my opinion" the balancing might be improved. In every single case he could tell me exactly how he could win against my "oh my god, much too strong"...

The variable empires were designed for beginners to play to guide them through the game. Ohhh ok, thanks for the info. I had just assumed that it's the other way around, like in lots of games with asymmetric player powers. I'll just try playing more with the symmetric ones then. TL;DR version of th...

Is there a consensus that some empires are much better than others or something? If yes, that could be solved by VP auctioning like in many other games on BGA. No need to stick to the boring default empires. It seems to me that the asymmetric empires reward you for taking cards that would be just ba...

For me, conceding a game is Just As Bad as quitting a game early! Maybe even worse, because usually when someone quits early they've lost internet connection or something unavoidable happened. I primarily play two person games because it's easier to find people to play, but I enjoy playing the game...

Thanks for the kind words guys. There are just two problems with my section though: 1) I wrote it when the game was still in alpha, and I made the wrong assumption that most games would be 4p, and some 5p. I didn't expect there to be a lot of 3p games, let alone 2p games. But 3p seems to be the most...

The "battles won" and "battles lost" stats also don't add up. For example, look at this game result: https://boardgamearena.com/table?table=297645188 - There are much more battles won than lost, which shouldn't be possible, since every won battle has 1 or more losers. It's probab...

These would be great. I would make clan upgrades a category of their own, while unit upgrades could be another (this would be just ship upgrades without Mystics).

Is the developer still active though?

Agree. The general idea and design behind Pantheon is very good. The possibility to spend a turn without taking a card from the structure is very welcome. Added benefits for revealing cards for the opponent is nice too. If the god powers were balanced well enough, these two changes would greatly all...

Very interesting analysis! The 1st player's advantage can also be seen through logic: Going first has to be worth at least 1 coin, because if starting 2nd with +1 coin would be advantageous, the 1st player could always just trash something for +2, effectively becoming the 2nd player with +1 coin. Ob...

Having to confirm every little thing you do can get quite tedious when playing on computer, but the best option would be to have an option for auto confirm, like some games do (e.g. Isle of Cats). Then mobile players can have their confirm steps and undo buttons without degrading the experience for ...