Reply: Eclipse: Rise of the Ancients:: General:: Re: Descendants of Draco and RotA?

by ryudoowaru

dlhammond wrote:

The color might not matter but the selecting of races not by the rules does change the game a lot. Page 5 bottom of the page Alien races. This prevents the starting player from taking Orion (unless no one took that sheet) and then researching Improved Hulls on the first turn (really bad if there is only one of them).

There's certainly a way around that: select a race in reverse player order (as normal), but if someone selects "human," then they don't choose their *faction* (and therefore color, if you enforce the color-faction link) until everyone has chosen. That way all the aliens are available.