First player advantage

[doolee_d]

Am I the only person who thinks that in 7 wonders duel (without expansions) the first player has a huge advantage?

In these games the first player usually controls the whole phase 1, if the second player does not build a wonder which affords him to take two turns one after another, but the second player does this, looses a critical wonder's effect for the final stage of the game.

Could we take this advantage away somehow? What strategies are the best for the second player?
When I play this game on BGA, in the 90% of the games (I easily go 7-8 straight games like this), I am the second player (don't know how can this happen, it should be 50-50, but that's my "luck"), and i feel that most of my defeats came from that only reason that I am not the starting player.

Thank you in advance!

[tony97]

Am I the only person who thinks that in 7 wonders duel (without expansions) the first player has a huge advantage?

In these games the first player usually controls the whole phase 1, if the second player does not build a wonder which affords him to take two turns one after another, but the second player does this, looses a critical wonder's effect for the final stage of the game.

Could we take this advantage away somehow? What strategies are the best for the second player?
When I play this game on BGA, in the 90% of the games (I easily go 7-8 straight games like this), I am the second player (don't know how can this happen, it should be 50-50, but that's my "luck"), and i feel that most of my defeats came from that only reason that I am not the starting player.

Thank you in advance!

Thanks for your post and ideas, but there is a whole discussion on the forum about that..... Maybe just go look?

[tony97]

Also there is a major thread on why arena without expansions is (probably) worse than with both expansions - and first player advantage being present in one but not the other is a factor.