r/twilightimperium • u/theodis09 • 2d ago
Homebrew Lost Legacies Faction Showcase PT 1
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.
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u/Vegetable_Exit7609 2d ago
Synod---so 3, sometimes 4 if BT is used, agendas per agenda phase?...
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u/theodis09 2d ago
Yup! It can get pretty tedious in async but in general the flow of gameplay in IRL and TTS games. I was hoping to shoot for "What if Xxcha committed to the lizards running government" bit
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u/biomazzi 2d ago
I dont like the royal rail guy change, i liked the idea of +4 pds and i never liked them fighting in space and ground, to similar to hells titan. Their name seems more intuitive to shoot, not to fight, so would be nice to have something unique in the way they shoot
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u/theodis09 2d ago
We actually recently buffed it (Combat 5 instead of 7) to compensate losing the extra pds. We mostly changed this because IRL play didnt have a non-lame way to represent 4 extra pds and we weren't running into a whole lot of use cases where Xytheris got to max pds in general. Now they hit hard bit dont have the vestigial extra pds from their old days
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u/biomazzi 2d ago
That makes sense, but i was mostly not impressed with hells titan clone, would prefer to actually maybe shoot every combat round, but not really be involved in fighting, something more to symoblises rail gun
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u/Ecstatic-Row7478 2d ago
The flagship for the ardentia is supposed to work like this? It gives the ability for all combats even if half a galaxy away?
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u/theodis09 2d ago
Authors Note: Im always in the process of updating things but sometimes it slips my mind to update some assets 🤣. Serisi Sithis (Ardentia Commander) has the following updated effect (the old one turned out to be busted):
Gain 1 additional command token during the status phase