Board Game Arena

I've been playing a bit of Arena recently and personally think I find the 2P settings a little sub-optimal for this game... I really like the whole RftG family of games, and strongly prefer RftG itself to be 2P. But I think New Frontiers suits 4P better. Largely because New Frontiers has a relativel...

No sooner had I posted this than my opponent explored the Olwyn conundrum, and unfortunately found out the hard way that the doubles stay with the person who originally recruited them (i.e. me). A tough way to lose and sometimes I wish we had a voluntary rewind button. But good to know the answer at...

Odin allows you to swap a neutral hero card. I did this with Olwyn, because swapping him out allows me to keep his two illusion/doubles cards. But then, Olwyn is of course available again in the hero selection. If I take him during another hero recruitment, do I get another two doubles? I suspect th...

The wording seems to indicate quite clearly that it is optional as it begins with 'may'. I have not had the opportunity to try it, though.

Interesting to read this thread. I came here because I'm getting back into Hardback after a while away from BGA. I was thinking wouldn't it be nice to have some Arena games for Hardback, but suspected I knew why this wasn't happening and sad to have the answer confirmed. I had a suspected case of ch...

I imagine that simply the thrill of the win and ranking points is what motivates some players to do this. I'm curious, what do folks do when they suspect this is happening? I like playing slow/turn-based and think time limits would actually punish me far more than an anagram-user. I've had a game or...

I tend to agree with the original post on the key points. For me, GalFed is easily the most annoying card to lose to 2-player because it feels like victory is largely gifted to your opponent. It's not that interesting to win with for the same reasons. In the before-times playing with a physical copy...