Thread: Eclipse:: Strategy:: Eridani Empire: not so handicapped as you thought.
by lofung_hk Eridani Empire is easily viewed as handicapped or hard race to play as it has two discs taken away. i doubted it as i enjoy winning the game epically while i see people right here on bgg...
View ArticleThread: Eclipse:: Strategy:: So what strategies & races are winning your games?
by MangaFox I'm interested in seeing how the strategic landscape of Eclipse has developed over time. Here are the strat+race combos that were winning our games of Eclipse before I left for china a few...
View ArticleThread: Eclipse:: Strategy:: Are Planta Overpowered?
by SnowRavenX In our last 2 games, Planta has become ridiculously powerful and in both games a massive attack by all players against them tried to stop them from winning. It only succeeded in one of...
View ArticleThread: Eclipse:: Strategy:: VP Nuances
by BuckShot Bill About to play my first game tomorrow, most likely 3P (so no diplomacy) with just Terran factions, and have read through several threads on strategy, and have a couple of questions on...
View ArticleThread: Eclipse:: Strategy:: Always little money!!!
by bodybuilder I love this game, his mechanics, his theme, but in our races we do too many explorations, and after some turn we have little money and we can only do 2 or 3 actions because nobody wants...
View ArticleThread: Eclipse:: Strategy:: initiative
by bodybuilder ships with similar power, worth attack if I have less initative than opponent? or is better to increase my initiative before attack, and meantime I wait him?
View ArticleThread: Eclipse:: Strategy:: I need help!!
by bodybuilder I apologize in advance if I'm writing so much, too much about this game but I love him so much and I'm sick to continue to lose.yet another 2p game tonight, my opponent goes first and...
View ArticleThread: Eclipse:: Strategy:: Discard hex
by bodybuilder When is really useful discard an hex during exploration?
View ArticleThread: Eclipse:: Strategy:: Influence Action
by ikesteroma I've played two games now, and I don't think I remember a single player ever taking the influence action once. It seems to me that the only practical reason for taking the influence...
View ArticleThread: Eclipse:: Strategy:: depending on what you choose to play a game...
by bodybuilder I think that the production of materials is the key: if I produce many materials, I can build monoliths and then do a more defensive game. might be right?other question: do you build...
View ArticleThread: Eclipse:: Strategy:: Possible solution to Missles...Interceptors!?
by GreyArcher In a game of eclipse (everyone Terran) I played recently I had taken the galactic center early (turn 4) with a very lucky interceptor rush. (Weapons: one ion cannon and one ion turret...
View ArticleThread: Eclipse:: Strategy:: 4 propositions: 3er meta game, nerving missiles...
by lofung_hk I had these thinkings in my mind for extended period of time but I am not confident to speak it out loud. Although i play roughly 2-5 games every week depending on the number of players i...
View ArticleThread: Eclipse:: Strategy:: Odds Estimation, Rules of Thumb -rambling-
by Quirky1 So I haven't seen what kind of rules of thumbs people use for calculating odds on the fly before a battle or when they are adding that last ship to one of two fairly even combats.I go by...
View ArticleThread: Eclipse:: Strategy:: Need for racial benchmarks?
by Quirky1 I would like a table that I could look at and quickly estimate if a player is doing well or not compared to some generalized benchmarks on a turn per turn basis.DISCLAIMER:Yeah, yeah, I...
View ArticleThread: Eclipse:: Strategy:: Can you win without fighting?
by colossus1919 I'm a long time gamer but played with my wife and oldest two who are just starting out. We just finished our first game and an after the fact question came up.To sum up; We played four...
View ArticleThread: Eclipse:: Strategy:: Grey Planet Hopping through Tactical Bankruptcy...
by flying_neko Please check me on my understanding of the "Grey Planet Hopping" tactic. I have read about it elsewhere but it wasn't specified in detail, so I had to reconstruct it on my own.Using a...
View ArticleThread: Eclipse:: Strategy:: Not another PM are OP thread
by Quirky1 Please, please, please... do not derail this thread into yet another discussion about PM being overpowered, broken or perfectly balanced.This is a thread about how to use them to their best...
View ArticleThread: Eclipse:: Strategy:: how many actions per turn?
by bodybuilder a bit of time I'm losing my games because I do too many actions and then are forced to leave hexagons to be able to payhow many action you do, on average, every turn?usually in...
View ArticleThread: Eclipse:: Strategy:: Situational Awareness, Too Many Lack It: Somehow...
by lofung_hk Yes, VP counting.You do not only count VP at the end of the game but start to pay close attention to the situation since the very beginning of the game.Spectating other groups in real...
View ArticleThread: Eclipse:: Strategy:: Any strategies for dealing with lack of Materials?
by WakandaMan There's been a lot of discussion lately about the amount of luck in the game, and one of the major factors is Hex draws. If you happen to be short on Money or Science though, there's...
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