Dominion Strategy Forum
Miscellaneous => Forum Games => Non-Mafia Game Threads => Topic started by: liopoil on May 06, 2013, 05:10:34 pm
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Rules: http://boardgamegeek.com/filepage/78941/rulebook-3rd-printing (http://boardgamegeek.com/filepage/78941/rulebook-3rd-printing)
TA to place an action pawn.
Food chain order:
Voltgloss - insects (green) 1 free species anywhere on earth at end of speciation. 16VP.
Hyramgraff - arachnids (red) Can eliminate one species it shares a tile with at beginning of competition. 11VP.
Liopoil - amphibians (teal) Starts with 3 sea elements 13VP.
TwistedArcher - birds (yellow) Species can migrate 2 spaces instead of one. 6VP.
Theorel - reptiles (black) Has a permanent AP in the last regression space. 14VP.
Watno - mammals (white) Can save one species from extinction each round. 26VP.
Turn order:
Voltgloss - insects (green) 2 grass, 1 sun, 3 AP, gene pool=20, eliminated=2
Hyramgraff - arachnids (red) 3 grub, 1 grass, 4 AP, gene pool=26, eliminated=4
Liopoil - amphibians (teal) 3 water, 1 grass 3 AP, gene pool=21, eliminated=2
TwistedArcher - birds (yellow) 2 seed, 1 meat, 3 AP, gene pool=26, eliminated=3
Theorel - reptiles (black) 2 sun, 1 seed, 3 AP, gene pool=23, eliminated=1
Watno - mammals (white) 2 meat, 1 sun, 3 AP, gene pool=26, eliminated=0
Survival card: Voltgloss
Gameboard (last updated at the start of Round 3):
(http://oi44.tinypic.com/1z3os9k.jpg)
AP placement area (last updated at the start of Round 3):
(http://oi41.tinypic.com/2ahtxlh.jpg)
Dominance cards:
Biodiversity: 1VP per tile shared with 1+ opposing species.
Mass Exodus: Select a tile. Move all species there onto adjacent tiles.
Parasitism: You an each player below you in the food chain gain an action pawn.
Aquatic: Place an element of your choice onto any sea or wetland tile. Place up to 4 species from your gene pool on that tile.
Blight: Select a tile. Remove all but one element disk from that tile.
Other info:
Bonus points for various things: (note that there's a pattern: the amount of points given per extra thing increases by 2, then 3, 4...)
Quantity: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9+
Points: 1 3 6 10 15 21 28 36 45
Tile scoring:
Sea: 9-5-3-2
Wetland: 8-4-2-1
Savannah: 7-4-2
Jungle: 6-3-2
Forest: 5-3-2
Desert: 4-2
Mountain: 3-2
Tundra: 1
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/reserved if I need it for some reason.
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Time to get reading the rules! Here's a link if anyone else needs it:
http://boardgamegeek.com/filepage/78941/rulebook-3rd-printing
(It says it's for the 3rd edition which is the same except for graphics and such)
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So "domination" and "dominance" are two completely different things?
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Yes, they are, and yes, that is incredibly confusing.
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Okay, I can't resist. I want in.
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okay. Grujah, you want the last spot?
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go without me, I cannot commit right now it seems.
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So we need someone else.
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yep! one more...
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I'll join. Reading the rules now.
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Woohoo!
Do we want to do species randomly, or by choice?
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I'm open to whatever you guys want. each species is distinctly different, and it does seem to me that some are slightly better than others
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Given that its my first game I would probably rather do random selection.
We are going to be playing this on vassal?
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another question: do you guys want to play the "short" game (not actually short, and still works just as well), or the long game? the only difference in the short game is that the dominance card deck is 4 cards smaller.
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I think I'll probably post pictures from VASSAL here.
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I'm good with random species. I'd vaguely prefer the normal game over the short game.
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okay, I'll do it random. I'd like to hear what other people think about short game/long game. I haven't played the long game, but it seems the cards it includes are imbalanced. They can give players extra action pawns!
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species have been determined. Each species comes with a color, so those have been determined as well. It's in the OP now.
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okay, I'll do it random. I'd like to hear what other people think about short game/long game. I haven't played the long game, but it seems the cards it includes are imbalanced. They can give players extra action pawns!
Mmmm...extra action pawns. That's why I want to keep them.
Also, I've been made to understand that the cards are imbalanced with or without them (it makes the early spots on the domination action more valuable). I don't think they're considered the strongest cards, they're just the ones that lengthen the game...but I think that has a lot to do with Analysis Paralysis, which tends to be less of an issue in forum games.
Anyways, that's my 2 cents. Others should weigh in obviously, I've never actually played the game just read about it.
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Slight preference for long game here.
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okay, it's ready to go! gameboard is in OP now by the way. I used the long game. It is now Qvist's turn to place an action pawn.
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I hope the board isn't too small. I made it as big as the forum would let me.
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I fear it is too small. I can't read the cards.
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better? I can make the action pawn placement area bigger as well if that is also too small.
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I don't see the attached game board at all...
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weird...
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I can see it on my phone but not my CPU huh. Ill mess with my settings when I get home.
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I don't know which browsers don't do it, but Chrome puts the attachments over to one side.
My suggestion would just be to use an external image site.
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My suggestion would just be to use an external image site.
What do you mean?
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www.tinypic.com
Upload the image there. Post it here in image tags. Done.
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ahhh, thanks I'll do that.
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should I post gamestate boards periodically or just keep one in the OP which I update?
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How familar is each of the players with the game. I've never played this before. I hope I don't make too many dumb mistakes.
Adaptation
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My first game too...
Could I request some random info for the first post?
Points for regions.
#APs (this will be more important once we have different numbers of action pawns)
Player-Board type info (specifically elements on the boards)
The points table (used for wanderlust/glaciation/survival) -it's hard to read on the gameboard
I think that's it.
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My first game, too. I'd also love to see that information in the opening post!
Since we're all clueless, we can struggle through this together :D
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yep! I was planning on adding a bunch of stuff once we get rolling. will do soon.
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also, adaptation is a rather common first move in my experience, so you haven't messed up yet :P
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also, adaptation is a rather common first move in my experience, so you haven't messed up yet :P
YEAH!
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Some stuff to add that I would find helpful:
Reptiles (Theorel) - Sun, Sun
One "Free" AP in Regression per turn
Insects (Qvist) - Grass, Grass
After Speciation, place one insect anywhere on the board.
Amphibians (Liopoil)- Water, Water, Water
No special ability!
Mammals (Watno)- Meat, Meat
May save one endangered species from extinction per turn
Birds (Twistedarcher)- Seed, Seed
May migrate one tile
Arachnids (Hyramgraff) - Grub, Grub
One "free" AP in competition
Adaptation - Sun, Grass, Seed, Meat
Regression - None
Abundance - Water, Water, Grass, Sun
Wasteland - None
Depletion - None
Wanderlust - Grass, Meat, Meat, Sun
(so I don't have to constantly squint at it and look up what the symbols are every time)
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added lots of stuff. all good now?
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Much! :D
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Could I suggest you also add how many species each player has left? IIRC it's limited and can really matter.
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ahh yes, completely forgot about that. That most certainly is an important part of the game. I'll also include number of species eliminated.
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I'll take the first domination action.
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Adaptation
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adaptation
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Initiative
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second spot on Domination
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Speciation
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Speciation
Oh, I guess I have to specify a ressource type, right? If I do, I take "Sun"
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yes, you do. Sun it is.
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Liopoil,
Just want to say that I love love love all the information on the front page -- it's very helpful. Thanks!
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I take the grub speciation.
One thing I haven't figured out. Other than the initiative action, does the turn order change at all during the game? It looks like it should from the arrows on the board, but if it's in the rules I've missed it.
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You only change turn order with Initiative. I don't even know what those arrows are really trying to explain, unless it's "move to the top, everyone else moves down" in which case it's kind of weird.
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You only change turn order with Initiative. I don't even know what those arrows are really trying to explain, unless it's "move to the top, everyone else moves down" in which case it's kind of weird.
They eliminated them from the 3rd edition board for that very reason.
I think the arrows just indicating turn order. So Insects, then (following arrow) Arachnids, then Amphibians, etc...then Mammals, then back to Insects again.
It has nothing to do with the initiative action, just showing you how turns flow.
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turn order only changes via initiative. However, turn order only matters when we are placing AP. When we take off AP it is done from top to bottom left to right.
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Glaciation
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abundance
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Dominance
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Is Dominance so important that early or why is everyone choosing that?
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The dominance cards can be pretty game-changing. (omnivore gives an extra action pawn, for instance).
And the main way to have domination effect a region where you have dominance (and hence get a card) is to take a domination action yourself.
I'm not sure how powerful this particular spread is on average, but there are at least a few useful cards there.
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Meat speciation for me.
Btw, I forgot to answer this before: I played this once several years ago, and I don't even remember if we finished.
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Dominance gets better as the game goes on. right now the omnivore card is far and away the best, the others are somewhat mediocre. I wouldn't have been surprised if only the first action got taken, because everyone else would know that hyramgraff is gonna get the omnivore.
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updated. Qvist's turn.
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Wanderlust
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Oh, 3 APs? Somehhow I thought it was only 2. Ouch.
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I take the jungle/wetland/tundra competition action.
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water speciation
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Seed speciation
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Abundance
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Wanderlust
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Cool! So Theorel can move up and place his AP again now, and we're ready to start the first execution phase?
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theorel moving his pawn is part of the execution phase.
Also:
(http://i.qkme.me/3uia88.jpg)
(I don't know why)
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all updated. It is indeed the execution phase. theorel to place AP.
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I'll go ahead and take Wanderlust also.
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Sun
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Grass. TA now.
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Darn, was hoping to get one of those two. Oh well.
Take the Meat
Now, none of these are really good for me, darn. I guess I'll take one of the water tokens...
Take a water token, placing it on the bottom left of the mountain space
Not really sure what I should have done there..
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Darn, was hoping to get one of those two. Oh well.
Take the Meat
Now, none of these are really good for me, darn. I guess I'll take one of the water tokens...
Take a water token, placing it on the bottom left of the mountain space
Not really sure what I should have done there..
You can always forfeit an action if you don't want to use it.
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You could also put a water on the arachnids Jungle making him less likely to competition you there. (since it robs him of dominance if he doesn't kill the amphibians)
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Anyways...I'm going to:
put a sun on the bottom right side of the mountain.
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Ooh, that's good. Unfortunately, I already decided and I feel bad using someone else's idea that I didn't see (quite unfair to both other players), but I will consider that for next time.
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So we've now got a 3-way tie for domination on the mountain tile..cool
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Well, it's mostly unfair against the players I suggested you hurt. It helps me :)
If I were to suggest you take the sun (since I was pretty obviously going to do so), and you did so, that would be kind of unfair against me.
Also, do we need to announce dominance changes in thread?
I think we probably should, because we're more likely to recognize when we've caused someone to lose dominance...but I'm curious if it should be required for dominance to change.
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Well, I don't think it's necessary, since Liopoil is putting it all in on the website which he's getting the images from, which will change dominance regardless of whether or not we state it. It would be useful, but I don't think there should be a requirement.
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Ah, I wasn't sure since none of the dominance effects from element selection took effect. But I guess he didn't have to change the board image (except for the dominance).
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So, to clarify...currently:
we're
tied on Savannah, Desert, and Mountain, correct?
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Yeah, it looks like the adaptation actions still haven't been entered.
I think we should definitely try to state it, though, especially when the thread gets ahead of the updates, just so someone's actions aren't changed based on not having information they should have.
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Yes, I believe you're correct.
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Well, it's mostly unfair against the players I suggested you hurt. It helps me :)
If I were to suggest you take the sun (since I was pretty obviously going to do so), and you did so, that would be kind of unfair against me.
Also, do we need to announce dominance changes in thread?
I think we probably should, because we're more likely to recognize when we've caused someone to lose dominance...but I'm curious if it should be required for dominance to change.
I'm in favor of announcing dominance changes in the thread to be required. It keeps both the letter and the spirit of the rules. Because any player can announce a change in dominance, I think that Liopoil can announce what changes have happened.
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the changes do not happen automatically, I have to manually change the cones. I update the vassal file on my computer continuosly, and update the pictures in the OP whenever I think it gets to the point where people need to imagine too many things differently than they already are. (it's more work to update the pictures in the OP, I have to take a picture of the board, crop it, and upload it.) will update now. The picture of the main board will have dominance cones on them. If you ever think it is incorrect tell me.
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hmmmm... sorry TA, but glaciate: Forest
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speciate on Tundra, Tundra and Mountain (1,1,2). Claim dominance of Tundra in the middle.
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1 on Tundra, 2 on Mountain, 2 on Desert
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3 on Jungle, 1 on Tundra, 1 on Tundra
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3 on Jungle, 1 on Tundra, 1 on Tundra
Claiming dominance on the Tundra in the middle.
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you're tied with QVist.
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Whoops, you're right -- was going off the fact that Watno still had dominance!
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1 on tundra, 4 on wetland, 3 on savannah, claiming dominance of tundra.
updating now.
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I think you're tied with Qvist and I on the Tundra, Liopoil?
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no, I have four (3x water 1x grass), you have 3 (2x seed 1x meat), and Qvist has 3 (2x grass 1x sun)
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Oops didn't see that you had the grass as well
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1 on tundra, 4 on wetland, 3 on jungle.
Qvist gets his free speciation and then wanderlust.
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Free Speciation on mountain
Taking Jungle placing it between Mountain and Desert
Put Grass token between Desert and Jungle
Now we move right? It's in food chain order, does this mean I'm last or first in moving?
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I checked the example in the rules, I am first to move.
Move 3 species from the mountain.
theorel to move next.
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Also, the rules don't seem to prohibit this, but i feel it would make sense if i can't take a tile from the same stack Qvist took from.
Anyway, what's below the jungle?
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you do not get to know what is under the jungle until the end of the round, and you can't choose the tile under it. It stays face-down.
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the problem is, the vassal program shows the top tile immediately, so I find out what it is... It doesn't matter too much, because it isn't available until the next round, but still... so we should probably just make it public info, right?
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Yeah, I guess it doesn't matter much in that case.
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okay. The top tile is a sea.
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I'm curious as to why Qvist chose the jungle instead of savannah.
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Move both species from Desert to Jungle
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I'm assuming that means keep you species in the mountain there. TA up.
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That's right, yes.
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Pass
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and now qvist.
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I'm curious as to why Qvist chose the jungle instead of savannah.
I don't know. Does it matter? Both give the same amount of points. Is there anything I'm missing?
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1 from the mountain, 2 from the desert
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I'm curious as to why Qvist chose the jungle instead of savannah.
I don't know. Does it matter? Both give the same amount of points. Is there anything I'm missing?
Check the first post again. Jungle gives less points (except for third place)
Savannah: 7-4-2
Jungle: 6-3-2
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Place Savannah so it's only adjacent to Tundra.
Place Meat next to the seed on the right.
Move both species from Tundra to the Savannah.
TA may move into savannah
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there is a jungle under the savannah.
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Pass
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hyramgraff passes. theorel place mountain tile
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Place Mountain on E05 with sun on top left corner.
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The Jungle is on EO5. EO6 is directly below it, do you want to go there?
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Yes
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Move 1 species
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Move 2 species
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hyramgrafff competing the dominating now.
Sry, Qvist may move first.
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Um...QVist might want to move also.
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Oops, sorry.
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I have no idea if I should go there. Let's move one species there.
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Free competition: Kill one of the birds on the new tundra.
Competition AP: Kill the insect in the wetland, the amphibian in the jungle and the other bird on the new tundra. Claim dominance of the tundra. Claim the survival card.
Domination AP: Score the jungle I'm on. Claim Omnivore.
I think that covers everything. Can we have a new image please?
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update coming soon.
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Score my Savannah.
take Symbiotic
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That was a rough first turn for the birds...I don't even think I can recover from this, I'm so far behind :/
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you'd be surprised. This game can swing very very fast. I've gone from last to first place on the last round. about 1/3 of the points usually come on the last turn.
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the reason for that is because how mean people are to you is a major part of how well you do. When you aren't doing well, people leave you alone and use their competitions and glaciations, etc on the leader.
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That's true. And it doesn't seem as though the leader gets much of an advantage over the other players, in terms of actions or anything.
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That was a rough first turn for the birds...I don't even think I can recover from this, I'm so far behind :/
Actually, you're really in the middle of the pack right now because of the VPs you scored in the jungle.
It's possible to win the game without any species on the board. I'm guessing that doesn't happen often, so I'll let someone who's played the game before now speak to that.
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technically possible, but that's never going to actually happen.
VPs don't matter at all right now.
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updated, theorel up, tell me if anything seems wrong.
hyramgraff, I don't know how to give you an extra action pawn on VASSAL.
Watno gets a sun from his symbiotic
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The first post says that nobody has the survival card, but I should have it.
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ahh, right.
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Score Mountain where I'm dominant. Take Evolution Card.
Replace Arachnid in central Tundra and Amphibian in Savannah. Arachnids lose survival card.
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end of round! nobody goes extint, nobody gets survival card, reset, new round, Qvist is up!
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bump for qvist.
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bump for qvist.
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...qvist....
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Oops sorry. Missed this. Will submit move tomorrow because I forgot what most of the spots do.
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Wasteland
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First Adaptation
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Wanderlust
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Adaptation
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well, I don't WANT to let you take it back, because that hurts me, but yes, you may.
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oh, you just deleted it. Do you want to go initiative or adaptation?
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I'm sticking with adaptation...sorry for the confusion.
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got it. TA up.
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Initiative
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Wanderlust
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Can we get an image update of the actions? It's a bit hard to keep track of all the actions so far.
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done.
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oh wait! sorry guys, we skipped watno! So ignore qvist's pawn on wanderlust, it shouldn't be there. It is watno's turn, then qvist, then hyramgraff.
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Glaciation
Sorry for the delay.
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qvist, still want wanderlust?
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qvist, still want wanderlust?
Indeed and sorry for the skip, Watno.
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Abundance
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Bump for Lio. I'm finding it hard to form / keep a strategy or understand what's going on with so many pauses :/
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whoops, hold on
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Domination
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Wanderlust
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Wanderlust
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sorry TA, theorel took the last one.
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Blah. Let's go Domination then
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theorel?
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It's your turn, watno. My turn was before TwistedArcher's.
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Oops, I was looking at the wrong order. Sorry.
Domination
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Then, it's my turn, right?
Speciation (Meat)
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Migration (7)
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whoops, I'll update and take my turn tommorow.
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Speciate Grass
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speciate sun
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Speciate Seed
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Abundance
BTW: I think it would be helpful if you indicated in the OP when the images were last updated, so you can check more quickly what you have to factor in.
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Hyramgraff to go once more, then we start the execution phase, right?
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Adaptation
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Starting execution phase!
Move to Migration
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Grass
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Seed
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Grub
Theorel to execute regression next.
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I missed that you were on adaptation. I totally would have taken grub if I'd noticed...(I just expected no one would waste an action pawn like that, so figured I had essentially locked out the third adaptation space.)
Anyways, I'll choose to activate my regression pawn (does that even really need to be a question?)
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I missed that you were on adaptation. I totally would have taken grub if I'd noticed...(I just expected no one would waste an action pawn like that, so figured I had essentially locked out the third adaptation space.)
Anyways, I'll choose to activate my regression pawn (does that even really need to be a question?)
Yeah, I placed my fourth AP on the last space as a gamble.
For Abundance: Grass on the top right of Watno's savanah.
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Meat between the jungle and the mountain on the bottom right.
Thanks for putting info about update timing in the OP, however I think it would be more useful if you noted the last action already processed instead of the date and time.
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woah, lotsa stuff happened. updating.
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Bump for Qvist. (Should we get a replacement?)
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I should have Dominance on the Jungle and the Mountain in the bottom right.
I think we need a replacement, but I fear it will be hard to find one.
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Is this game now dead?
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well, waiting for someone to volunteer to replace qvist...
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It would be awesome if we could get a replacement.
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OK, I think I have a (tenuous) grasp of the rules, so...
Swap in for Qvist
Remove Grass from the Wasteland box
So now the Water adjacent to the Tundra gets removed - and Insects dominate the upper-right Savannah tile, right? Also, Amphibians lose dominance in the central Tundra, correct? Just making sure I understand how the mechanics work.
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I think that's right.
I glaciate the top left jungle
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Speciate (meat): 3 insects to B05, 1 to C04
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Speciate: 2 on D05, 3 on E05
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BUMP
TwistedArcher to speciate, liopoil needs to update gamestate first probably.
Actually I think Twisted can only speciate to C04/D05. so it's just a question of if he wants to not do that for some reason.
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Or if he doesn't want to put down the maximum number of species. I forgot about this, will update OP soon.
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Argh I don't know what the heck I did wrong, but I'm already left with like 3 species and yeah hm I am not understanding something about this game.
Speciate C04/D05.
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speciate grass between wetland and savannah. voltgloss to use his free speciation. updating. spoiler: the board looks quite a bit different.
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Speciate: D03
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speciate, liopoil?
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He needs to wanderlust actually.
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VG - which tile are you placing your species on, the tundra, or the wetland? DO3 is the tundra, but people have been using those letter/number things for the space above it, which makes sense and in those scenarios it's clear that's what they mean.
then I'll wanderlust.
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VG - which tile are you placing your species on, the tundra, or the wetland? DO3 is the tundra, but people have been using those letter/number things for the space above it, which makes sense and in those scenarios it's clear that's what they mean.
then I'll wanderlust.
The wetland. I thought D03 is the wetland. As you say, I see people using the letter/number things to refer to the space above, and the space above D03 is the wetland - right?
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nope, DO3 is the tundra. Everyone has been getting it wrong, this is the first time it's ambiguous. anyway:
put a sea in CO1 with a grass in the upper left corner of the wetland. TA do you want to move in?
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nope, DO3 is the tundra. Everyone has been getting it wrong, this is the first time it's ambiguous.
I think you've confused yourself, as this is in contradiction to what you said earlier (when I was placing the mountain), and also based on the look of the board.
D06 is the empty space (printed outside the board)
D05=Mountain
D04=Tundra
D03=Wetlands
You just placed a sea in C02.
The Jungle is on EO5. EO6 is directly below it, do you want to go there?
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Not moving in
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The picture in the OP is misleading, and I got it wrong before.
on the vassal board, at the top of the board, there is a space where "C00" is written. above it, is the scoring track. so there has to be a bunch of spacs that there isn't actually a space to place a tile. it's at the bottom of the board. I know this because whenever I move a piece, it keeps a log of what I did. If I move a species from the tundra to the wetland is says "Cube moves D03 -> D02 *" when I move it to the space right under the "D06" marker which looks like it's talking about the empty space above it, it says I moved it to D06.
I move 7 in. hyramgraff to move in.
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Move two from the wetland.
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Move 1 insect from D02 to C01.
Wanderlust:
- Place a sea tile at E01.
- Place a sun token at the upper-right corner of the D02 wetland.
theorel to decide on moving in.
(Someone check me if I've got the Wanderlust rules wrong. Thanks.)
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I'll move 1.
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lio's next I believe.
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Bump
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Move 3 from savannah, 1 from wetland
hyramgraff to move in. updating.
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Move 1 from wetland.
I don't know who is next.
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voltgloss is
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Move 1 from savannah.
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theorel to wanderlust.
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Jungle in D06, no element
watno first to wander in.
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Move in 1 from Jungle
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Move 1 from Jungle, and 1 from each mountain.
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TA then voltgloss to move in. then I'll update, and hyramgraff then TA will migrate.
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Could you update title for TwistedArcher?
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pass
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Move 1 from Jungle.
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Bump
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I'm sorry, I was waiting for the first post to be updated and then this never showed up on the new replies list.
Migrate 1 from wetland to starting tundra, 1 from wetland to savanah and 1 from the sea that has two to the wetland. Claim dominance on the starting tundra (not that it really matters much.)
This should leave seven different tiles with one species each.
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TA's turn now
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volt has dominance in E01, not me.
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Move one from the upper left tundra down to the tundra below.
Sorry, I am finding this game super hard to get into never having played before, and with such long pauses.
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Sorry, I am finding this game super hard to get into never having played before, and with such long pauses.
I'm having this problem too. I keep forgetting my "strategy" (to the extent I have one).
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@TA: you realize you can move up to 6 animals up to 2 spaces each? That means you can move pretty much all your cubes.
Given that your claiming domination this turn, you might want to try to get majority somewhere where no one else can claim a dominance card.
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@TA: you realize you can move up to 6 animals up to 2 spaces each? That means you can move pretty much all your cubes.
Given that your claiming domination this turn, you might want to try to get majority somewhere where no one else can claim a dominance card.
Wait, I haven't read the rules for awhile. But I thought that I could only use domination on a space where I had a cone. Since all of my spaces got frozen off the board (and I have no idea what I did wrong for this to happen?) I don't have anywhere to go for domination, right?
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You can claim domination on any hex. When domination is claimed on a hex, the hex is scored for all cubes present, and then whoever has dominance gets to claim a dominance card.
It's perfectly viable to claim domination on a hex where you don't have dominance but will get a bunch of points.
There are a couple reasons you don't have dominance anywhere:
1. there are almost no seeds on the board. There are 2 reasons for this: 1. you didn't take abundance to put another seed on the board (or wanderlust if there were any seeds there). 2. You didn't take glaciate, so the people who did take it glaciated your other seed off the board. Now you're in even greater danger because the seed you didn't place is going to remove the last seed from the board next turn.
2. There are a lot of suns on the board AND 2 of the other species have sun elements (in particular mammals getting sun). This is just bad luck (for you and me) mammals got 1 random draw from the bag, and got sun. If they'd gotten grub this wouldn't be an issue.
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so, TA, would you like to change your turn?
theorel pretty much said it all. you can use the domination on whatever tile you like. Whoever has the cone gets to take a card. How many points you get is decided by who has the most species.
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No takebacks, let's roll with it.
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okay, hyramgraff to use his free competition
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okay, hyramgraff to use his free competition
Eliminate the bird that just moved. Claim the Survival card.
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Dominate the upper-left sea tile, liopoil gets 9 points, Hyramgraff gets 5, Voltgloss gets 3. Choose the domination card Predator
eliminate arachnid on upper-left sea, arachnid on wetland, reptile on upper right sea, insect on savannah, arachnid on the only tundra tile I'm on.
updating.
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updated except for images, which I am updating now. TA to dominate. Let me know if you would like a list of what domination cards have been used, and which are left in the deck.
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Dominate the mountain at D05, Iguess
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Take Ecodiversity for 9 VP.
Dominate bottom mountain.
Take the free glaciation action to glaciate the top left sea.
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all that happens.
extinction - I'm fairly sure that everyone lives, someone can double check that if they want...
survival card - voltgloss gets it because of that last glaciation, he gets 6 points
reseed - that happens.
updating now...
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done, voltlgoss up.
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I don't think i like that parasitism event.
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Oh man, it's been literally two months since I read the rules on what the different actions do. Uh. I'm gonna need a little time to do that again.
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Sorry to delay this gang. Been a very busy week. I should have time to refamiliarize myself with the rules and get a move in by tomorrow evening.
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Bump for voltgloss.
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Sorry for delay all. I'm still far from sure about things here, but it's not fair for me to hold things up.
Place a pawn on Domination.
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Initiative
If someone else wants to take one of the grasses in adaptation, I will happily spend an action on regression next round. (Although you might have to remind me that I said this two months from now.)
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liopoil?
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Wanderlust
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Sorry for suddenly dropping out of this game, guys. Thanks Voltgloss for subbing in.
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TA?
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Speciate Grass
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Glaciate
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Adaption
Volt up again.
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Now to make time to read the rulebook (again) and figure out what I was thinking (again)!
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Volt?
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volt's been gone for a while again...
at this point, with the game having been going for so long and so slowly and not near the finish, I'm willing to just call it quits... should we try to keep going or not?
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I'm also willing to call it quits.
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Would call it quits. I want to play this in person before attempting it pbf.