Board Game Arena

As I use BGA every day, I was wondering whether it uses PHP and whether it has been patched to address the PHP2Shell exploits which are said to put 70% of websites at risk.

I don't play Arena as It's just 2-player games, right? If people are using stooge accounts to help manipulate their ranking, this sounds like a lot of work. Why are players going to such lengths? What does winning Arena get you? There aren't any prizes, are there? And the bragging rights seem limite...

The good news is that I still won the game despite having lost most of a turn!

Napoleon was amended in the expansion so that he gives one military action rather than 2. This is an official change to the card and so that might be acceptable to BGA. Other cards which were rebalanced were: Colossus, Hanging Gardens, Hammurabi, Julies Caesar, Michelangelo, St. Peter’s Basilica, Wi...

Well, at the risk of speaking sacrilegiously, I don't think the designer (Jacob) understood the game all that well. He would absolutely get clobbered by any competent player. So, the argument "This isn't what Jacob intended" doesn't hold much value to me. I have yet to play a game designe...

I don't like draft because: * it does not seem thematic for competing corporations to pass ideas to their rivals * It especially does not seem thematic for corporations to be forced to pass good ideas to their rivals. I really hate when I get dealt several good cards and have to pass most of them to...

I agree that the icons are too small but they are colour-coded so you can go by the overall colour. For example, Pink=Silk.

I was puzzled that I didn't get any viking actions on turn 2 in a game just now. (table 862782692). Now we're on to turn 3, I see that there's a pass button which forfeits all remaining actions and I suppose that I must have clicked this in error somehow. This is a silly option as I can't see why pl...

1. The theme is a weird mashup of 1920s history, mechs from another era and talking animals This is funny because the alt history theme with seemingly anachronistic mechs is exactly what is appealing to many people about Scythe. Playing the physical game so you're actually manipulating the minis is...

I have no experience of playing Scythe and so tried it without any preconceptions. My main impressions were negative for the following reasons: 1. The theme is a weird mashup of 1920s history, mechs from another era and talking animals that remind me most of the Golden Compass. It was unconvincing a...