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Twilight Imperium 4e - Game 4: Round 7 - Action Phase / Game End
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and there's not even a top tier race like Jol-Nar or Sol to balance out the worst starting positions.
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(Said with extreme jest)
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Location D in case I get stuck with 1 carrier.
@Hedgethorn
@Ketar
@discrider
Location E
@Mojo_Jojo
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@discrider
@Ketar
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@Hedgethorn
@MrBody is up to select a faction, with Preda to follow. discrider will take the last remaining race.
Available Items
The Ghosts of Creuss
Sardakk N'orr
The Winnu
@Preda to have fun with the N'orr!
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@discrider will have Winnu, @MrBlarney to start up.
Suckers
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Preda: Select location F.
MrBody: Select location D.
Hedgethorn: Select the Mentak Coalition.
Ketar: Select location C.
discrider: Select location E.
Mojo_Jojo: Select location B.
Mojo_Jojo: Select the Naalu Collective.
discrider: Select the Speaker Token.
Ketar: Select the Barony of Letnev.
Hedgethorn: Select location A.
MrBody: Select the Ghosts of Creuss.
Preda: Select the Sardakk N'orr.
discrider: Select the Winnu.
Select Sarween Tools for starting Technology.
All players draw two Secret Objectives, keeping one and returning the other to the deck. The Secret Objectives deck is then shuffled.
The top two cards of the Public Objective deck are revealed:
Negotiate Trade Routes (1 VP): Spend 5 Trade Goods.
Corner the Market (1 VP): Control 4 planets that each have the same planet trait.
3 Stage I Objectives and 5 Stage II Objectives remain in the deck.
Current Map: Start of Strategy Phase
Current Technologies
Victory Points and Objectives
The Naalu Collective - 0 VP
The Barony of Letnev - 0 VP
The Ghosts of Creuss - 0 VP
The Winnu - 0 VP
Sardakk N'orr - 0 VP
Public Objectives
Negotiate Trade Routes (1 VP): Spend 5 Trade Goods.
Corner the Market (1 VP): Control 4 planets that each have the same planet trait.
3 Stage I Objectives and 5 Stage II Objectives remain in the deck.
Secret Objectives
The Mentak Coalition: 1 unfulfilled secret objective in hand.
The Naalu Collective: 1 unfulfilled secret objective in hand.
The Barony of Letnev: 1 unfulfilled secret objective in hand.
The Ghosts of Creuss: 1 unfulfilled secret objective in hand.
The Winnu: 1 unfulfilled secret objective in hand.
Sardakk N'orr: 1 unfulfilled secret objective in hand.
Special Objectives
Trade Goods: 0
Action Cards: 0
Tactic Pool: 3
Fleet Pool: 3
Strategy Pool: 2
Promissory Notes: (Ceasefire, Trade Agreement, Political Secret, Support for the Throne, Promise of Protection)
Technology: Sarween Tools, Plasma Scoring
Worlds:
R - Moll Primus (4R, 1I)
Other Racial Data:
- Racial Technology: Salvage Operations (Yellow, requires 2 Yellow): After you win or lose a Space Combat, gain 1 Trade Good. If you won the combat, you may also produce 1 ship in that system of any ship type that was destroyed during the combat.
- Racial Technology: Mirror Computing (Yellow, requires 3 Yellow): When you spend Trade Goods, each Trade Good is worth 2 resources or influence instead of 1.
- Ambush: At the start of Space Combat, you may roll 1 die for each of up to 2 of your Cruisers or Destroyers in the system. For each result equal to or greater than that ship's combat value, produce 1 hit; your opponent must assign it to one of his ships.
- Pillage: After 1 of your neighbors gains Trade Goods or resolves a transaction, if he has 3 or more Trade Goods, you may take 1 of his Trade Goods or Commodities.
- Racial Promissory Note: Promise of Protection: Action: Place this card faceup in your play area. While this card is in your play area, the Mentak player cannot use his "Pillage" faction ability against you. If you activate a system that contains 1 or more of the Mentak player's units, return this card to the Mentak player.
Trade Goods: 0
Action Cards: 0
Tactic Pool: 3
Fleet Pool: 3
Strategy Pool: 2
Promissory Notes: (Ceasefire, Trade Agreement, Political Secret, Support for the Throne, Gift of Prescience)
Technology: Neural Motivator, Sarween Tools
Worlds:
R - Maaluuk (0R, 2I)
R - Druaa (3R, 1I)
Other Racial Data:
- Flagship: Matriarch: Combat Value 9 (x2), Movement 1, Carry Capacity 6. Sustain Damage. During an invasion in this system, you may commit Fighters to planets as if they were ground forces. After combat, return those units to the space area.
- Racial Technology: Hybrid Crystal Fighter II (unit upgrade, requires 1 Green and 1 Blue): As Fighter, but Combat Value 7, Movement 2. Does not need to be Carried; each Fighter in excess of your ships' Capacity counts as 1/2 of a ship against your Fleet pool.
- Racial Technology: Neuroglaive (Green, requires 3 Green): After another player activates a system that contains 1 or more of your ships, that player removes 1 token from his Fleet pool and returns it to his reinforcements.
- Telepathic: At the end of the Strategy Phase, place the Naalu "0" token on the Strategy Card; you are first in initiative order.
- Foresight: After another player moves ships into a system that contains 1 or more of your ships, you may place 1 token from your Strategy pool in an adjacent system that does not contain another player's ships; move your ships from the active system into that system.
- Racial Promissory Note: Gift of Prescience: At the end of the Strategy Phase: place this card face up in your play area and place the Naalu "0" token on your Strategy Card; you are first in initiative order. The Naalu player cannot use his "Telepathic" faction ability during this game round. Return this card to the Naalu player at the end of the Status Phase.
Trade Goods: 0
Action Cards: 0
Tactic Pool: 3
Fleet Pool: 3
Strategy Pool: 2
Promissory Notes: (Ceasefire, Trade Agreement, Political Secret, Support for the Throne, War Funding)
Technology: Antimass Deflectors, Plasma Scoring
Worlds:
R - Arc Prime (4R, 0I)
R - Wren Terra (2R, 1I)
Other Racial Data:
- Racial Technology: L4 Disruptors (Yellow, requires 1 Yellow): During an Invasion, units cannot use Space Cannon against your units.
- Racial Technology: Non-Euclidean Shielding (Red, requires 2 Red): When 1 of your units uses Sustain Damage, cancel 2 hits instead of 1.
- Munitions Reserves: At the start of each round of Space Combat, you may spend 2 Trade Goods; if you do, you may reroll any number of your dice during that combat round.
- Armada: The maximum number of non-Fighter ships you can have in each system is equal to 2 more than the number of tokens in your Fleet pool.
- Racial Promissory Note: War Funding: At the start of a round of Space Combat: The Letnev player loses 2 Trade Goods. During this combat round, reroll any number of your dice. Then, return this card to the Letnev player.
Trade Goods: 0
Action Cards: 0
Tactic Pool: 3
Fleet Pool: 3
Strategy Pool: 2
Promissory Notes: (Ceasefire, Trade Agreement, Political Secret, Support for the Throne, Creuss IFF)
Technology: Gravity Drive
Worlds:
R - Creuss (4R, 2I)
Other Racial Data:
- Racial Technology: Dimensional Splicer (Red, requires 1 Red): At the start of Space Combat in a system that contains a wormhole and 1 or more of your ships, you may produce 1 hit and assign it to 1 of your opponent's ships.
- Racial Technology: Wormhole Generator (Blue, requires 2 Blue): At the start of the Status Phase, place or move a Creuss wormhole token into either a system that contains a planet you control or a non-home system that does not contain another player's ships.
- Quantum Entanglement: You treat all systems that contain either an Alpha or Beta wormhole as adjacent to each other. Game effects cannot prevent you from using this ability.
- Slipstream: During your Tactical Actions, apply +1 to the movement value of each of your ships that starts its movement in your home system or in a system that contains either an Alpha or Beta wormhole.
- Creuss Gate: When the board is created, the Creuss Gate is placed where your home system would normally be placed. The Creuss Gate system is not a home system; your home system is placed in your play area.
- Racial Promissory Note: Creuss IFF: At the start of your turn during the Action Phase: Place or move a Creuss wormhole token into either a system that contains a planet you control or a non-home system that does not contain another player's ships. Then, return this card to the Creuss player.
Trade Goods: 0
Action Cards: 0
Tactic Pool: 3
Fleet Pool: 3
Strategy Pool: 2
Promissory Notes: (Ceasefire, Trade Agreement, Political Secret, Support for the Throne, Acquiescence)
Technology: Sarween Tools
Worlds:
R - Winnu (3R, 4I)
Other Racial Data:
- Racial Technology: Lazax Gate Folding (Blue, requires 2 Blue): During your Tactical Actions, if you do not control Mecatol Rex, treat its system as if it contains both an Alpha and Beta wormhole. Action: If you control Mecatol Rex, exhaust this card to place 1 Infantry from your reinforcements on Mecatol Rex.
- Racial Technology: Hegemonic Trade Policy (Yellow, requires 2 Yellow): Exhaust this card when 1 or more of your units use Production; swap the resource and influence value of 1 planet you control until the end of your turn.
- Blood Ties: You do not have to spend influence to remove the Custodians token from Mecatol Rex.
- Reclamation: After you resolve a Tactical Action during which you gained control of Mecatol Rex, you may place 1 PDS and 1 Space Dock from your reinforcements on Mecatol Rex.
- Racial Promissory Note: Acquiescence: At the end of the Strategy Phase: Exchange 1 of your Strategy Cards with a Strategy Card that was chosen by the Winnu player. Then, return this card to the Winnu player.
Trade Goods: 0
Action Cards: 0
Tactic Pool: 3
Fleet Pool: 3
Strategy Pool: 2
Promissory Notes: (Ceasefire, Trade Agreement, Political Secret, Support for the Throne, Tekklar Legion)
Technology: (none)
Worlds:
R - Tren'lak (1R, 0I)
R - Quinarra (3R, 1I)
Other Racial Data:
- Flagship: C'morran N'orr: Combat Value 6 (x2), Movement 1, Carry Capacity 3. Sustain Damage. Apply +1 to the result of each of your other ships' combat rolls in this system.
- Racial Technology: Valkyrie Particle Weave (Red, requires 2 Red): After making combat rolls during a round of Ground Combat, if your opponent produced 1 or more hits, you produce 1 additional hit.
- Racial Technology: Exotrireme II (unit upgrade, requires 2 Blue and 1 Yellow): As Dreadnought, but Movement 2, Bombardment 4 (x2). This unit cannot be destroyed by "Direct Hit" action cards. After a round of Space Combat, you may destroy this unit to destroy up to 2 ships in this system.
- Unrelenting: Apply +1 to the result of each of your units' combat rolls.
- Racial Promissory Note: Tekklar Legion: At the start of an Invasion Combat: Apply +1 to the result of each of your units' combat rolls during this combat. If your opponent is the N'orr player, apply -1 to the result of each of his unit's combat rolls during this combat. Then, return this card to the N'orr player.
Neutral Worlds
N - Abyz (Hazardous, 3R, 0I)
N - Arinam (Industrial, 1R, 2I)
N - Arnor (Industrial, 2R, 1I)
N - Bereg (Hazardous, 3R, 1I)
N - Centauri (Cultural, 1R, 3I)
N - Coorneeq (Cultural, 1R, 2I)
N - Fria (Hazardous, 2R, 0I)
N - Gral (Industrial, 1R, 1I, B)
N - Lazar (Industrial, 1R, 0I, Y)
N - Lirta IV (Hazardous, 2R, 3I)
N - Lodor (Cultural, 3R, 1I)
N - Lor (Industrial, 1R, 2I)
N - Meer (Hazardous, 0R, 4I, R)
N - Mellon (Cultural, 0R, 2I)
N - New Albion (Industrial, 1R, 1I, G)
N - Quann (Cultural, 2R, 1I)
N - Qucen'n (Industrial, 1R, 2I)
N - Rarron (Cultural, 0R, 3I)
N - Resculon (Cultural, 2R, 0I)
N - Sakulag (Hazardous, 2R, 1I)
N - Saudor (Industrial, 2R, 2I)
N - Starpoint (Hazardous, 3R, 1I)
N - Tar'mann (Industrial, 1R, 1I, G)
N - Tequ'ran (Hazardous, 2R, 0I)
N - Thibah (Industrial, 1R, 1I, B)
N - Torkan (Cultural, 0R, 3I)
N - Vefut II (Hazardous, 2R, 0I)
N - Wellon (Industrial, 1R, 2I, Y)
N - Zohbat (Hazardous, 3R, 1I)
Order of Play
The Winnu
Sardakk N'orr
The Mentak Coalition
The Naalu Collective
The Barony of Letnev
The Ghosts of Creuss
All players will now select one Strategy Card in order, starting from the Speaker.
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That would be ill-advised.
I doubt it; you'd have to get through him before preventing me from encouraging him
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You mean straight towards Mecatol instead of you?
Around the other side of that Asteroid field even.
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