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IL is the one card that I would ban. It's game breaking in how it alters the mechanics and consequently the rhythm and duration of the game. Sometimes game-breaking powers in a game are fun - Terraforming Engineers, for example. But IL is not just game breaking, it's fun breaking. It turbo-charges s...

From the beginning probably? Dramatic reversal happens at the end, but hail mary strategy was embarked upon much earlier.

A bit of a hail Mary

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Just won a game via tie-breaker where opponent maxed out appeal and lost 3pts

The first arc as whole feels very experimental and unbalanced compared to later Alien Artifacts and Xeno Invasion. I'd just avoid it. I can't comment much on AA or Xeno as I haven't played much of those, but to me, the first arc trio completes the game - especially the addition of prestige. These e...

I've been coming round to this position re: improved logistics as well. It's not that it's OP (there are several equally/more powerful cards), it's in the particular way that it "breaks" the game. Its biggest power is in how it allows a player who is ahead to artificially bring forward the...

To some extent, yes, but not totally. It's rare that an all-out produce consume strategy is the best way to go, but it can be effective as a hybrid strategy (in combination with e.g. early settle spam). EDIT: Having looked at the game in question, you played a very solid produce/consume game that wo...