Board Game Arena

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Couldn't find any on BGG, and that would be really nice to know (particularly the card list for 2 vs. 3 vs. 4 players etc.)

Well, i went ahead and used a janky method of obtaining the full 2-player card list! For now i'm not planning to do the larger player counts or the goals, as i've just been doing 2-player for the moment and it would take scouring a lot of replays to get images for all the goals. If i were to get a physical copy of the game soon, that would obviously make this much easier. Anyway, here's what you've got to work with for 2P...















One bit that stands out to me is how important producers are for those "hire crew members with a single skill type" goals - there's only one non-producer who fits that bill! Also interesting that there's 1 fewer backstage crew than musicians even though you can hire the same amount of both.

However, i'd argue the key finding here is something different: the best singers might actually be the rapper and the Latin pop(?) singer! While the other two are higher-scoring in themselves, notice that they can only obtain a maximum of 5 harmonies while the two lower-scoring singers can actually threaten that "6 harmonies" goal. This is because there are 3 musicians each who have purple and blue as their top symbol, while there are only 2 musicians each who have yellow & red as their top symbol.

For reference, i always used to pick yellow as my starting symbol and go for the punk singer, since the musicians who harmonize with her are also the highest-scoring ones. However, after doing this, i'll definitely look elsewhere since harmonies are typically worth more points in the end. The "punk band" route is mainly worth it if you're going for a crew rush to end the game early, i think.

ty, i was trying to do that too!

Well, i decided to do the 3-player card list after all since that's the Arena format! This will look even messier but i just wanted to get the information out there:















Seems like red & purple are the most flexible starting colors to select!

What does the "random crew" option do? Always use full cardlist?

Wow, thanks funkdoc

I added the crew members' color and point distributions into a sortable spreadsheet.

I hope other people find this as useful as I do.
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/ ... sp=sharing

It seems that BGA doesn't strictly use the player count numbers assigned because some of the cards with higher player count numbers on them I've definitely seen in 3 player games.

My guess is that they were mostly trying to get the correct distribution of each crew type in the game.

There is a random crew option that is used in Arena. It takes random crew cards no matter the player count. I don't know if it takes a proper distribution of cards though.