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by Purple Paladin As my friend realized, on turn 2 after he played the pirates for the first time "OMG, my home system is only worth 1 point!". Even more encouragment for them too swarm the galaxy.
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by Nemesis420xPurple Paladin wrote:As my friend realized, on turn 2 after he played the pirates for the first time "OMG, my home system is only worth 1 point!". Even more encouragment for them too...
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by Creamsteak I want to get into the position as pirates in some game where I'm actually split into two fleets on opposite sides of the board, just for thematic reasons.
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by ghbellCreamsteak wrote:Having four moves makes up for the lack of dreads. Dreads best feature is the low number of moves to get all that firepower in position. Rho Indi can move every ship they can...
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by ghbellPurple Paladin wrote:As my friend realized, on turn 2 after he played the pirates for the first time "OMG, my home system is only worth 1 point!". Even more encouragment for them too swarm the...
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by Nemesis420x Yeah, but overwhelming bottlenecks are generally a result of defensive group-think. And they can be mitigated somewhat by interceptors and if you're lucky enough to get it, cloaking...
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by Nemesis420xVanish wrote:Mr Suplex,I once had a friend who forced us to play communist monopoly. Whenever someone would hit GO, we would pool all our money together and divide it equally. It wasn't a...
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by chrisib A couple of weeks ago my girlfriend and I introduced Eclipse to a group of my friends. They're all experienced boar gamers, but had never tried Eclipse before. In the end it was a 7-player...
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by LazyJ I think that's a good list Chris.
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by chrisib I'd be curious to see your code. I've been toying with the idea of writing an Eclipse combat simulator in Python. Between the two of us we might be able to bang something pretty solid out.Do...
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by Vanish Mine (author of the web accessible one above) is monte-carlo.
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by fugee how many times you roll for hive sector in a single round: 1 time or until hive is empty from ancient ships?
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by Hartm I played a three player game with experinced gamers (we have all played eclipse many times). We included just about everything...1) Hive homeworlds - Changed the dynamics of tile placement I...
View ArticleThread: Eclipse: Rise of the Ancients:: Strategy:: Lyra - General Discussion
by Nemesis420x Hello all. I'll start by saying that my intent for this thread isn't necessarily to discuss Enlightened of Lyra strategy; I just couldn't think of a more appropriate forum to put it...
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by chrisib I've only played as Enlightened a couple of times. The first time I didn't care for them very much; the shrines were cute, but I never had enough materials to build the third one from any...
View ArticleThread: Eclipse: Rise of the Ancients:: Rules:: grey symbols on ancient ships
by arcanus Does anyone know what the grey symbols are on the ancient ships?One cruiser has 1 hull, +2 computers, 2 initiative, 2 shields, 1 antimatter missile, 1 plasma cannon, and _1 grey...
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by Fremen That stands for "regenerate". That ship will "heal" 1 damage each combat round.
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by mfaulk80 Look on page 6 of the rulebook, in the right hand column. It's under "Special Ancient Abilities", and it's called Regeneration:"After each Engagement Round, remove 1 Damage Cube for the Ship."
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by Nemesis420x Yeah, they definitely require a lot of forethought into resource management that the other races simply don't have to worry as much about. I didn't have any issue getting the 2s and 4s...
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