Xeno Counterstrike

Following up the earlier post, I’ve now played a twice (once just the Frontier game, once the full Counterstrike game). The Frontier Game (aka “only the regular cards, mostly”) “A little bit more race” — 15 tableau, 15 VP/player and the frontier worlds. The Counter Strike Game (Fight the Aliens!): A wild dancing bear Ginger Rogers, doing everything a normal dancing bear does but in heels and backwards. Frankenstein’s monster splitting a hookah hit with Flash Gordon, fighting crime with Snoop Dog, tastes great AND less filling. Yet more filling. In all seriousness, this has flaws. Race is fast enough that snowballing happens and sometimes you just shrug, but this version is long enough that it’s a problem. In my first game I easily beat the other two players …. only counting my VP chips and awards. Not even counting my tableau of 20-ish cards. I agree that you are heavily incentivized to go military (for your start world), but hey, it’s the military Arc. But I would happily play, and…