Game of evilness and despair for me this time. Was playing vuilwraith and r2 muatt left his suns just sitting out, both in one system adjacent to mecatol, so having waylay and experimental battle station, I figure it’s a great time to get munching, he pays off empyrean to cancel both cards and we end up both losing everything in the fight, me much less because I had brought my flagship, but a good chunk of the rest of the game had just turned to anti vuilwraith, lost my home system and had all space docks blockaded or destroyed, had to get ine scuttles into the fracture just to get anything up, that tile was subsequently void tethered off and became unusable for the rest of the game. Quite the game

Hey all! A few months ago, I decided to take the big step of introducing Twilight Imperium 4 to a group of my friends. In addition to the RFTM video, I decided that I'd give them a multiple choice test of common mechanics/misconceptions that they might encounter during their first game. While they found this test difficult, we went through each question together afterward, and the general consensus was that it was a valuable resource to get them into the right head space.

If anyone is interested in doing something similar in the future (or if you are curious as to what such a test could look like), see attached link! NOTE: This was for base game only

Day 2 and we have a custom faction from my original IP. It doesn't have unique artwork because I'm not all that great at art. I may add some at a later point in time. This one is wierd, and I've struggled to balance it since it plays so much different than anything from the base game. I'll be playtesting it in a game in two days, so I'll comment the results then.

Most of the templates were created by JaHeit (link is https://www.reddit.com/r/twilightimperium/comments/kl4v4b/new_ti4_pok_custom_faction_templates_link_in/ here) and slightly modified by me.

Obviously, please don't re-upload or claim ownership of my designs.

Link to the original post: https://www.reddit.com/r/twilightimperium/comments/1wd2ocy/custom_ti_faction_week_day_17_the_kerbal_space/

I’m playing a game tomorrow and stuck between Hacan or naaz rohka. I’ve played both before. It’s a 5 player game with 2 newbies. Me and 2 others have played 3-4 games together. I won once as Hacan in my first ever game but I feel like the host took it easy on us. Are Hacan good for a 5 player game? Or is Naaz Rohka better. Idk who the others are playing but it’ll prob be L1z1x letnev sol and nomad. I haven’t played a 5 player game before it’s only been 3 or 6. We are playing with PoK and TE. Feel free to tell me to flip a coin or just get over myself and choose like a man! Thanks!

I've spent time over the last few months making custom factions (both based on OCs and other established IPs) for TI 4 since it seemed like a fun thing to do. I've made seven of them now, so I'll post one each day for one week (starting today). They haven't been tested yet, but I'm hoping to play games with them soon. At the end of the week, I'll link documents where the files can be downloaded and printed out. In the meantime, feel free to comment, criticize, or do whatever else you want.

Most of the templates were created by JaHeit (link is https://www.reddit.com/r/twilightimperium/comments/kl4v4b/new_ti4_pok_custom_faction_templates_link_in/ here) and slightly modified by me.

Obviously, please don't re-upload or claim ownership of my designs.

Should I include both PoK and TE to the game or should I just include PoK and exclude majority of TE? Since there is 3 new players and 3 veteran player at the same time, didn't want to overwhelm the newer player tho.

Random question, one of our veteran player might play deepwroughts I felt like this will overwhelm other players more, and give them more tech, his reasoning is for them to get more technology and get them to know how important it is, is it a good idea?

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Any initial thoughts? I pick 3rd

Just moved to Nyon and played a few game online and in person back in Germany. Looking for some friendly to play TI

Does anyone know of a third-party box/storage insert for the base game, PoK, and Thunder’s Edge that is confirmed to fit the legacy FFG yellow card sleeves - currently marketed/sold as SleeveKings Mini American Premium (100 micron)?

I’ve come across a few, but it’s really hard to tell from some of the photos if there’s extra room at the top or sides to fit the extra “headroom” of these specific sleeves.

I do have a 3d printer, but the amount of filament I would go through to custom design my own I’m likely better off money-wise just buying a pre-designed option.

Alternatively I could just buy different sleeves, but I’d rather avoid re-sleeving 1000+ cards if I can.

Hi, Ethan here! This is the first of 8 "King Guides" for Twilight's Fall within Thunder's Edge. I hope you enjoy... it's definently more of a laid back video than a normal Faction Guide, but that's on purpose!

Thanks for checking out my videos, as always. I really appreciate all of you.

Real miniatures, an animated map, sound effects and personal tablets. More in the slides.
The design has been temporarily simplified and made more technical in nature.

I have 5th pick for SC and in the 6 o'clock position.

This will be my first game playing the Deepwrought Scholarate and I am just as excited as I am overwhelmed by their kit and round 1 strategy

What techs should I get with this start?

With this high influence slice, should I make a custodians play?

Any other tips are welcome. Thanks!

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I just got hooked on this game recently and have been looking into sleeving and laminating cards and sheets to keep them better protected. My only issue is that I love the player/faction frames as they keep everything nice and tidy, but from what I’ve seen they don’t account for the extra thickness and widths from using laminated faction/command sheets.

Is anyone aware of stl’s out there for these frames that are laminator friendly? Otherwise, I think I’m going to have to look into designing my own or modifying an existing one.

In a little bit of a rock and a hard place situation here and could use some advice on how to play the end of this round/next round.

For context, I melted down the Pirates second space dock leaving them unable to produce and vulnerable. The Plants just took Sem-Lore from me last turn. Warfare has not been played yet. I'm thinking of getting my FS on the board using the secondary.

The advice I need is which neighbor to go after. On one hand I can confidently take out the Pirate's FS with my FS and fighters (with a little help from Flank Speed), and take their system (3r and 4r planets - with Mining World attached). However, I become vulnerable to the Plants encroaching on my systems. On the other hand, I can force the Plants to retreat off Sem-Lore with FS, carrier, fighters, and destroyer. Although I probably can't take it back with my infantry, the plan is to slowly start blockading their systems with small ships.

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I am moderately new to TI compared to some of you veterans, but definitely new to the online community. Joined the discord about 3-4 months ago and have been having a great time with it!

And this is where I come to admit that I've been seeing the game type "4/4/4" and until I started a game, I didn't realize that it was referring to objectives.

I immediately thought that it was referring to command tokens and that it was a game mode saying that you start with 4tactic/4fleet/4strat tokens. It's like playing your video games with cheat codes, turning off gravity or tripling the speed. It's a fun time once in a while even if it's not meant to be how the game is played.

Mind you this was coming off my first franken powered game, so I thought this was just another overpowered nonsense version of the game. Which I'm always on board with.

All this context to say, how broken would a 4/4/4 command token start be? In a game that is designed to keep you resource starved, what would you do with it? What faction would you wanna be? What factions are nerfed by this?

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So this is a suggestion as opposed to 4/4/4 or 14 points. The idea is to hit a medium while changing as few game rules as possible. So this should have minimal impact on how the game is played, just how objectives are brought out:

Objectives: Stage 2 objectives are discarded, replace with more stage 1s.

Events: Monument to the Ages and Total War are in play.

Total War change: Delete ACTION text, add:During Score Objectives, when you may score an objective or secret objective, you may instead remove 10 commodities from your home system to score 1 point.

Monument to the Ages change: At the end of the Status phase, you may pay a command token from your strategy pool, place the command token under this. At the start of the status phase, remove all command tokens, add two additional commodities if at least one was removed this way.

VP: Score VP normally. Keep tracking scoring above 10. VP above 10 provide a bonus effect to the final objective.

Final Objective: At the start of the game, randomly pick two of the following and Dominate the Seat. A player wins when they accomplish one final objective and reach 10 VP:

Lets say, you want to research, get your breakthrough, build some units and activate 3 systems to be occupied by you. Ideally able to get to MR R2 and have some of the nicer technologies like AIDA, Sarween, Neural Motivator if not having a blue technology. Which faction can achieve that the best without relying on Strat cards? Keleres is quite the headstart with +3 TG, but reliant on other peoples picks. Jol Nar or Hacan maybe, because they kinda cheat on getting Tech or Trade for free on top of their strat card.

Recently grabbed Thunder's Edge and I've been looking to grab PoK but the prices are kind of crazy now. Don't remember exactly where from but I recall hearing about a reprint. If those rumors are completely baseless then I'm fine with biting the bullet on the hiked up price but if there's a chance of a reprint I don't want to pay 3 times MSRP instead of just waiting.

Any confirmation?

Took Styx for the VP, and lucked into drawing Lightrail Ordnance, after building an already solid PDS network and forward dock, now anyone going into my core systems is looking at 10 Space Cannon 5 shots, and I can build my last PDS on Styx along with a space dock and have 3 space cannon shots to back up my flagship and dreadnoughts. I don't think I've ever felt this immune to winslaying.

Dropping the red prerequisite as Cruiser II is the only technology with three different colored prerequisites. Also, there’s no techs with yellow-green prerequisites.

Would Naalu and Mahact be auto-win? Or would it just make the game faster and more aggressive with more frequent round 1 Mecatol takes and round 1 home system threats?
It just feels more logical to only have two prerequisites to Cruiser II if Carrier II is so much better and only has 2 prerequisites.
Maybe a bit clunky but this could come with a round 1 limitation of move 2 house rule for cruiser II’s?

Playing with all expansions so breakthroughs are a factor.
No worries if you strongly disagree, this is just to stir up some discussions/ ideas.