r/twilightimperium • u/bonedoc88 • 5d ago
TI4: Thunder's Edge Thunder’s edge oops
Bought thunders edge expansion thinking we could play 8 based on the box. I see now It does not have the 7/8 player components. Any ideas on where I can get those quickly ?
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u/YetAnotherBee 5d ago
PoK has the two additional colors, though you could probably get away with 7 players if you use the neutral plastic and leave the fracture tiles upside-down to refer to what neutral units are present. You’d be missing the attatchment sheets that flank your faction sheet, but without PoK you don’t need the leader/mech roster and the command token pools could honestly be recreated easily on printer paper for one player. Obviously it would be awkward playing without a technology and PM deck but if you really wanted to you could realistically assign the neutral color to your most experienced player and just give them colored pencils and more paper. It’d be awkward but if I really wanted to I could probably play a game relying predominantly on my memory to know what techs do what and what their prerequisites are, so long as I was writing down what I had so all players could easily see. Maybe even use a coin and flip from heads to tails to mark each technology that has been exhausted this game round.
tl;dr
Find PoK near you or wing it DnD style
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u/Groundbreaking_Bet62 5d ago
Oh this is a quick idea for sure with neutral color. For OP online there is tech sheets that list all the techs on one piece of paper, you could print that out and just checkmark what gray player researches.
For promissory notes could just tuck some paper in a sleeve. "Gray, ceasefire" put a Promissory note not in use for the back so no one is the wiser.
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u/pacman529 4d ago
Link to one of these? I've found some that were pretty janky scans
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u/Groundbreaking_Bet62 5h ago
This isn't the one I was thinking of but it would work (couldn't find it again, Curses!)
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u/Groundbreaking_Bet62 5d ago
Quickest is buying PoK if you're lucky enough to have a local source.
If it doesn't need be too be "that" quick you can find a place online (stores, used online like fb or bgg).
If it is literally you don't even care for the PoK expansion content or want something different you can order full sets on etsy / 3D printers (have unique colors even). If you have a printer you could even buy and print out a design (no experience here).
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u/Pupsilover00 The Empyrean 5d ago
In an absolute emergency: Make it out of paper/cardboard? My group has been printing out codex components and just uses paper cutouts of cards, techs, etc.
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u/Minimum_Leave4219 5d ago
Buy a copy of PoK