Race for the Galaxy : The Brink of War

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Race for the Galaxy : The Brink of War

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We are proud and happy to introduce today the third expansion for Race for the Galaxy : The Brink of War.

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Race for the Galaxy is one of the best and most popular game here on Board Game Arena with more than 3.7 millions of games played. Almost 70.000 players tried this game here! This game is certainly not a "family game" and is quite complex, but it is really worth trying it!

To help you to jump into the game, the excellent youtuber Game Fondue recently published a complete 12 minutes explanation of the Base game, using Board Game Arena interface. So basically you can be ready to play your first Race for the Galaxy game in 12 minutes for now : what are you waiting for?

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About the expansion :
_ 4 new start worlds, 5 new goals, 44 new game cards.
_ New "prestige" chips : they looks like VP chips (+1 point too), but you can also consume them to trigger some powers.
_ New "search/prestige" action you can use once in a game, with 2 possible effects : either it improves a lot on of your action bonus (ex : consume x3 instead of x2), or it allows you to search in the deck from a specific card you need.

With this third expansion the "expansion arc 1" for Race for the Galaxy is now 100% available on Board Game Arena :)

Like the previous expansions, The Brink of War is available only for Club Members. As usual, only members can select this option but anyone can join the game afterwards.

By the way, this is Christmas soon and it's time to suggest your family & friends that a BGA membership could be a nice present for you! To offer a membership to someone in few steps :
_ go to https://boardgamearena.com/#!club
_ click on "offer someone a Club Membership".
_ type the username of the lucky player (hopefully, you!).
_ click on the payment button and follow the instructions.

We'd like to thank Rio Grande Games and Tom Lehmann for giving us this opportunity to have this game here!

Enjoy!
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Thats cool guys.
But takeovers is still bugged?
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Moony Raven wrote:But takeovers is still bugged?
If you are talking about this one :
https://fr.boardgamearena.com/#!bug?id=5358

=> yes.

If you are talking about this one :
https://fr.boardgamearena.com/#!bug?id=5348

=> probably yes.

If you are talking about another one, please post the bug #id so I can answer you :)
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The explanation video is incredibly well done. If I never need to learn how to dismantle a nuclear bomb using my pinky and the power of positive thinking, I'm hiring that narrator to explain to me how that will happen.
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Thanks for adding this expansion. I find it hard to get this game out with my game group; steep learning curve, and you have to invest some time with this one. So thankful that I can play the base game and all of the arc 1 expansions on Board Game Arena.
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Nice addition except prestige bonuses particular to Brink of War are being awarded even when not using Brink of War. In particular, in all my games with Rebel vs Imperium and Gathering Storm, a point is aarded at the end of every round to prestige leader. This should not happen and is a major issue.
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It doesn't appear that Galactic Scavengers start world is working properly. I buy worlds and developments and cards are not being stored in the card to be regained during the Produce phase.
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hotpepperextract wrote:It doesn't appear that Galactic Scavengers start world is working properly. I buy worlds and developments and cards are not being stored in the card to be regained during the Produce phase.
Hi.

There is a special "scavenge this" icon during the payment phase to select the card to scavenge. I may make it more visible.
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Post by hotpepperextract »

Thank you for the response. I see the icon now for Galactic Scavengers. Making it more apparent would make it easier no doubt. When I'm playing multiple games (which I always do) it's easy to forget to place a card each time into Scavengers. Also, Gambling World isn't working FYI, but I'm sure you know that from the Bug forum. Thanks again.
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