by techlacroix
I played a 9 person game. having two people go at the same time was essential, it was a 7 hour game. There was a fair bit of discussion, but as alliances were formed and broken there was a lot of strategy and agonizing on what to do. At this level of play the possibility for people to get angry at each other goes way up.The biggest problem I have with Eclipse is that once missiles come out everyone forgoes all hull and loads up on them and targeting and they are unstoppable. This expansion has a answer for that with an anti missile add on. Point defense and Distortion Field. The point defense allows you to shoot down missiles and Distortion field gives them -2 to hit. Add on a Antimatter splitter and antimatter cannon and you are going to be able to answer incoming missiles.
I think the expansion really is a great addition, and one I prefer to play with over the vanilla game.