Variable Factions (Cosmic encounter inspired) | Ascending Empires

This game has a very nice simplistic ruleset, that is not necessary improved by introducing more complexity, still factions give so much more theme that this game is lacking. I thought of a way of introducing asymmetric factions by stealing ideas from cosmic encounter. What do you guys think? Have any one tried this before? Which Factions need to be balansed.

To play whit them: Print and cut them out and preferably sleeve them. Then shuffle them and each player randomly draws 3 factions and chooses one.

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Stefan vom Stein

(floydsen)

Germany

Though I haven't played AE very often up to now, I already like the idea behind your faction cards. And they do look great, too.

The very much symmetric board setup of the standard game (especially in a 4P game) seems to lead sometimes to sort of a stalemate, so your approach should not only bring more variety and flair to the game, but also allow some more differing strategies between the players.

Edit: On our last game night we played two rounds of Eminent Domain amongst other games, but next game night might see new space exploration, maybe AE with faction cards then.

Edited Mon Mar 19, 2012 10:39 pm
Posted Sat Mar 17, 2012 4:14 pm
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