by DaCooGa
So a strategy that I don’t see discussed as often but have seen come up in tournament play as well as my own games with my friends is when a Magellan player simply explores as many Tier 3 tiles as possible, gaining loads of discovery tiles, which can net well over 10 points as well as many resources and a high chance of strong ship parts.When you are playing a race like Orion that is more about going towards the center instead, how do you counter such strategies? You could try to fight the Magellan player but it may not work if they have strong ship parts from discovery tiles. You could try to counter explore the tier 3’s but you would be late to the race.
Or perhaps no “countering” is necessary? Many races can gobble up Tier III’s so perhaps if only one player is taking them, that is when it becomes an issue.
Any advice on this would be appreciated. Thanks.