Hello!

I made a custom set of command tokens and wanted to get opinion which do you guys/girls think is the best one (and worst)? For me it hast to be black.. I know that we got colored command tokens from TE but I like the feel of plastic instead of cardboard and they look more vivid in the system (because of the white color)

My group play TI about 3 times a year. Some of the players even less, as we switch it up a bit.

I have read what some people write about their meta here on reddit, and I regularly listen to SCPT, so I hear a bit about how high level games are played. And I must say, being a semi-noob group such as us is absolutely awesome!

Our meta is wild. We use all units, and use all techs. None of us care about meta and the absolute optimal tech paths. We have no boatfloat or x-1. No «only blue tech + X89» meta.
None of us whine when we get attacked, we just go at it and blow ships up. We just pick whatever faction we wanna play, without caring about what factions are «best».

We all focus on trying to win, so the player in the lead always gets hit hardest. Our games usually last until R6. No R5 action phase win or R4 status, like SCPT mentions.

There is almost a blessing in only getting to play every now and then, cause our games are just madness and super fun!

Hey guys, so I was playing a game a few months ago and something happened between two players.

So player 1 one was trying to score an objective so they moved to a certain spot to do so.

Player 2 then moved to that spot as well to try and score a secret and public objective.

Player 1 got upset at player 2 because they were telling player 2 that they should have been diplomatic about their movement instead of just moving into the same spot as player 1 and destroying his units.

Player 2 argued that he is also trying to score an objective and that he doesn't feel like he needs to announce every move he does prior to doing it.

Player 1 got upset and decided to stop playing the game. Game ended right there in round 2.

Is most of the community like this? I was neither player 1 or 2 but I saw it happen and was pretty bummed out we didn't get to finish the game. I feel like player 2 didn't do anything wrong in my opinion. No rules were broken and it wasn't a movement in spite of anything prior. It looked strictly objective based to me at least.

What do you guys think?

Also, why is kingmaking in this game so prevalent you think? Is it cuzz the game is long and people just give up when they have no hope? I personally think its annoying. I usually try my best to win still or turn a losing situation into the best situation I can even knowing I probably won't win. I feel like at the very least, its good practice when you're in tough situations.

Cheers!

My attempt to organize this absolute beast of a game.

I was hoping it would only take a few weeks after the asmodee USA restock to reach here, but it looks like it might be longer than that :/ quite a big gap for some reason.

Sucks too as I have a game planned in November and was hoping to play with POK, oh well. Just need a little more patience I guess.

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Part 3 of my faction showcase feels like a good time to talk about power levels. One of the more common pieces of feedback I receive is that, because these factions have such concentrated themes and mechanics, they seem considerably stronger than the “average” faction.

My goal was for all LL factions to sit above the middle of the pack, but I’ve done my best to keep them below the strongest factions in the game. Development started before TE, so I had no way of knowing just how strong DWS and CR would be 🤣.

One consequence of the “Franken First” design process is that I want every faction component to be a worthwhile pickup or have a clear use. At the same time, I wanted to avoid locking factions into a single way to play.

Few things frustrate me more than an almost useless faction technology with a pickup rate close to zero, or an alliance or promissory note that nobody is interested in using. I want each faction to have a clear identity while still offering meaningful choices and room for different playstyles.

Hopefully this gives some relative insight into the design process.

Thought we’d come here and see if anyone has created stickers for all the factions including TE and POK?

I’m looking to label some of our storage boxes for all the strategy tokens and cannot find stickers of any kind. I’ll pay if someone can make these!

Shout-out to u/Panamaniac_3D for saving me $300. I had been considering picking up a resold copy from eBay for a hefty markup, but after asking about a reprint here and seeing their response I waited. Lo and behold, about a month later I get a notification about the reprint and It's ordered not 5 minutes later. One more week and it arrives. Now I just have to get a game (🫩)

Ethan from CCC here. Keleres was majorly updated and changed with their official printing in Thunder's Edge, and they have a whole new play pattern to them.

I hope you enjoy! Leave comments on the video if you have any questions or input.

I have never played as or against Winnu. From what I understand, however, it seems that Winnu's presence in a game means that the other players will have to play around them to an extent, such as keeping them off of Mechatol or perhaps blocking public objectives, lest the Winnu player run away with the game. Tell me if I'm wrong, of course.

It seems to me that they're very all or nothing; they either do very well and score very quickly if nobody plays around them by denying them Mechatol or they are completely inhibited. If that's true, is it really ever fun to play as Winnu? Or are they not so warping and deserving of the table's heat as I've been led to believe?

Hello everyone,

We are planning our next session for next weekend.
Attached to this post is our map. It is for beginners and describes the starting positions.
But sorry guys, it is in German. 😅
Maybe it will help some of you for your next session!

A follow up to my previous post here are factions 4-6 of my Lost Legacies Homebrew?so=search).

I wanted to put a lot of care and focus into designing starting fleets/techs and homes in a way that helped showcase combos within the factions to show off what they are good at, so you might see a few quirkier fleets or starting setups among the project.

I'll keep these up piecemeal to ensure they're easy to digest but feel free to check out the wiki?so=search) if you're bored

I was in this situation this weekend. Going into the final round I had no way of winning. It seemed like a little bit of a conundrum because there were ways I could pick up a secret objective point by taking a few more turns after securing my public objective, which I did. But it felt like I was just extending the game unnecessarily for everybody else. In retrospect I wonder if I should have passed at some point and let the contenders duke it out. What do you guys do in that situation? Do you try to eek put every possible point you can get, or do you throw in the towel to help the game end a bit faster?

Hello,

Me and my good close friends play once a month, with pok c1-4 and now TE. We have found that our playstyles have some attrition and would love to have more input from outside:

We were discussing how a player should react to their home system being taken from other players.

The issue arises when a player which has their home system taken, stops playing to win and attacks to retaliate/punish/damage the player that attacked.

The two point of views we have:

1. A player should always prioritize winning, so in case someone takes your home system, you should maximise victory points even if the chances of winning are now small to not cause a punishing effect on the player that managed to take their home system, as this would result in the third player almost automatically winning.
2. A player that gets his home system taken and is now behind or can not score points, is allowed to attack the player that took his home system to retaliate for the war act. This attack is clearly not focused toward winning the game but more on taking action against the player that took their home system

Now the arguments

In (1), the argument is that if we do this, the game remains playable for the other two, and incentivates protecting your home system more, to avoid such actions. Additionally, the idea is that this is an actio that is aimed at weakening or stopping a player. The issue is that the player that does not retaliate is probably going to play the next hours without a real hope of winning.

In (2), the argument is that as a war/political game, attacks on the home system are war declarations and the attacked part would rather die than seeing the attacker crowned as the galactic emperor. Also as, if an opposing faction takes you out, you would take revenge against it. The issue is that if this happens, most of the times the third player will have a huge advantage as two players just lost a lot of point or plastic.

We would like your input to ease our point of view to a compromise.

We all agree that it would make no sense to exterminate the attacker, and that the punishment, if allowed, should be more or less proportionate. We also all agree that if it gives points, or stops a player from winning, it is more than fair game. The issues comes when one says, I can do it to hinder that player, because it's easy and not well protected, should the attacked player do (1) or (2)?

There is not a correct answer and the goal is to find a solution where everyone can have fun.

Edit: Apparently there is no clear course of action that everyone agrees upon. All agree that you should defend your home system and that having it attacked it is a missplay. As for the reaction, many say 1 and many say 2.

Also, how does that work for other factions? Are you only able to distribute ground forces that have been previously produced? Does that have to respect the ships capacity or I could transfer ground forces "one after another" between planets inside the same system?

I created the cards holder for the player, but then I realized that I have no way of storing the add-ons for planets.. So I came up with designing those small plastic thingies to attach to a card (without destoring it). Let me know what I could improve upon this design! The width of the player cards holder is exactly the same as a faction sheet. Printed on 0.2mm nozzle

As a TI-enthousialist with very little free time, for the past few years i've been excited about possibilities for a digital version against AI. Obviously this will have some difficulties and not be perfect, but in my case not perfect is better than not at all.

And now in the past few months we have this software revolution where AI-assisted coders are recreating photoshop and adobe, free and open source, at high quality.

So combining these two made me ask the question:

Does anyone know of a finished or work in process TI-online version that can be played versus bots?

Any groups or a discord that I could join to get some games

For the better part of 2 years my friends and playtesters on the Tabletop Simulator and Async discord servers have been helping me to refine my personal homebrew. What started out as a project to make more synergistic components for franken led to a full fledged faction, action card and exploration homebrew expansion with over 18 factions. The content is still far from complete but I was hoping to do a couple days of showcasing each of the factions. Sans a couple of the newer ones these are all fully playable on Async for both full factions and franken setups thanks to the dedicated help of the dev team over there. For more information on the full list of additions I've recently added the information to the list of unofficial homebrew on the wiki.

https://twilight-imperium.fandom.com/wiki/Lost_Legacies_(UNOFFICIAL)?so=search

These first 3 factions are some of my more sane ideas so should serve as a helpful toe in the water for the crazier ideas later on.

Big thanks to Carter000 for helping keep my effects sane, Steelfire for writing some of the bulkier lore and flavor text, Beans for programming for me in the Async server, and all the playtesters who helped make this stuff.

I played a game this weekend as the Discordant Stars faction The Kortali Tribunal. One of their techs states "Once per space combat, after 1 of your non-fighter ships is destroyed, you may produce 1 hit and assign it to 1 of your opponent’s non-carrier ships." I used this ability to assign a hit to Yin's flagship after he destroyed my cruiser, then played direct hit to finish it off.

The question is, the direct hit card states you immediately destroy an opponent's ship after it uses its Sustain Damage ability to cancel a hit produced by your units. My Yin opponent argued that their flagship was not damaged by a unit, it was damaged by my tech, therefore I wouldn't be able to use the direct hit action card.

What is the official ruling on this?

Most of the actual tracking will work with magnets that will have 3D printed markers on them (see the top right for examples of such markers). The biggest challenge right now is making the public objectives readable at 1 table's length distance.

We've thought of coloured markers to make a kind of "colour language" that indicates "control/have/own/spend" through symbolic/coloured markers, but that's beyond my expertise