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Why does your picture of giant ice asteroid cost 41 and have it killing 12 plants instead of the correct 36 cost and only killing 6 plants?

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omg, lol. so i've played over 3,000 games now. I've played every day for about 6 years. (on average).. venusian animals and sulphur-eating bacteria are game-breakers. they're both top 15 to top 20 cards out of 500+ cards now in existence after OG mars, venus, prelude, colonies, turmoil, pathfinder, promos. they are literally two of the best cards in existence. I've had 30 point venusian animal games countless times and I've earned 200+ mc from SEB repeatedly. oh, and Manutech is the best corp in the history of the game, lol, as long as you're playing with preludes.

Great idea of this tournament. Will you finish it? About the results: I can't agree with your views on last Celestic vs Stormcraft (best for space tags - Stormcraft can be well in Jovian strategy), last Splice vs Aphrodite (best for wild tags - I don't see anything important in non-microbe cards for Splice, except for milestones while Aphrodite needs often Earth and Jovian for Venus strategy) and second Helion vs Recyclon (who terraforms best - in my opinion greeneries are slower than raising temperature either by the events or by the heat). Astrodrill was unlucky a bit this time.

Excellent overview 👍

A very effective use of Robinson’s ability is to take actions which reduce your energy production down, and then just replenish your energy production back for only 4 MC. This can effectively mean that you can usually substitute the “Power Plant” Standard Project for 7 MC less. Granted, you can only do this once per gen, but it’s still an extremely effective strategy I’ve used in many games.

I've always liked morning star because although it's never going to be insane, you can pick it and have a decent game basically regardless of what other cards you drew.

I could accept most of those, while i disagree, i can see the thought process. But Credicor B? What were you smoking? Its the most versatile of all, not reliant on cards, gets HUGE start money, discount on some standart projects as well. Easy A.

Where are these card images coming from? Is there a digital version of the game that you can play online with all the expansions?

Wow, it's great to see a summary of the community corporations. Have you tried the Moon and Pathfinders corporations?

Credicor B Ecoline A Helion D Mining Guild C Interplanetary Cinematics B Imventrix D Phobolog A Tharsis Republic A Thorgate C UNMI C Teractor A Saturn Systems B Beginner Corp D

In my opinion, Vitor has the highest ceiling of any corporation in the game. You need some card draw to make it work, and you need to get your cash engine rolling. Also, you obviously want the game to last as long as possible. But if you hit your sweet spot, this corporation is unbeatable. I've had two-player games online where I finished with more than 200 points (obviously this is only possible with insane luck, such as Gen 1 Earth Catapult + early AI Central). It is not that hard to play either. Ideally, you will simply refuse to terraform (or only terraform one parameter) and hoard cards which give you victory points. It also paramount to draft strong terraforming events all the time, a Giant Ice Asteroid is the last thing you want to see. In the meantime, try to get your production as high as possible. Cards which give an discount on cards are also extremely valuable, you want to buy those every time. Another very important aspect are cards which let you collect resources (animals, microbes...or science tags with Search for Life) because you also get a 3 MC rebate on those. This makes all these cards playable. Basically: Just prolong the game as long as possible and then play all the non-production VP cards. If you have a good enough set-up, it is possible to play dozens of cards in the last generation, that's no exaggeration. You can just chain rebate upon rebate and spam cards ad nauseam. This is also why cards are the most valuable resource for Vitor, and this is also its only weakness: You definitely need to get a lot of cards, otherwise it is not gonna work. Overall, I find its ability the strongest in the game. Cards with non-negative victory points are abundant and make up nearly 40% of the deck, depending on which expansions you use. Therefore, Vitor belongs in S-tier to me. (Regarding the award: It is not that important. Maybe your opponents win it. But maybe you win it. It's not really a positive, but it's not a negative either. On Hellas, Magnate is an easy fund - or Space Baron if your starting hand is good enough and your opponents don't have corps which like space tags. On Elysium, you have good chances for Celebrity. Tharsis is the hardest - but Scientist or Banker are winnable. If there is nothing to your liking, you can even forfeit this in advance and just fund something which distracts the other players and slows the game down. Anyways - the award is negligible. It feels bad if someone wins an award you funded, but one shouldn't let this negative feeling cloud the judgment about the strength of Vitor.)

Helion in D? :O Whaaaaaaat? In the video you didn't even mention its ability to use heat (The worst resource as you point out) as money (The best resource as you point out). A mistake? Helion IMO is one of the strongest corporation because the ability to have money produced from two sources is so powerful. Also if you draft there is another inherent bonus: people generally do not want to take heat focused cards but if you are in play with Helion they may face tough choices wether to let you take a huge heat card or to take it and discard it (to avoid you having it) leaving you with other strong cards to choose from.

When will you continue your bracket

Nice work! I'd ask that you drop having two milestones about cards, they're probably too closely correlated, and so easy to win both. But most of all, I hope you get actual playtest feedback.

Return of the King! I like the idea of power production on the moon, but shouldn't it be outside of the ocean spaces? Not sure why I feel that to be a weird combination. Interesting milestone and award ideas, I would have to play with it to see how well they they work. I Very much like the idea of "Do X this generation for Y" that is something project cards could also do- maybe a little like UNMI and Pristar.

Inventrix is one of the best corpo... you just dont understand it yet. Card with science tag gives you a lot of cheap energy + more cards + lower costs of building cards. All this give you cheap victory points. I think this is Super corp.

Vitor is not D, its extremely powerful with smaller VP cards, especially at kickstart. You just have to fund your award carefully then keep it.

Credicor a B? It's often ranked near the top of people's tierlists. 57 starting money and -4 on standard project City and Greenery is huge. You have so many options for amazing gen 1-2 plays, mopping up plants and securing key places on the board, whilst having enough flexibility to take advantage of any potential space/Jovian openings. Its main strength is not about the 30+ cost cards in the game, but about the SPs and 20-30 cost cards. Phoblog is overrated as an A as it is super dependent on your opening hand. A lot of space cards are overvalued as they contain VPs and not much else for their cost. But, if you have a couple of decent ones it can be very effective, but you're going to get hate drafted and denied Jovians. You can take advantage of space events, particularly if you can target plants, but again this is vulnerable in draft play. Overall, it's an A at best, and much lower at worst. Inventrix slightly underrated. 3 card draw enables Planner milestone and you can then make a very well informed option with 16 cards in your hand and adapt to your opponents. It's not top tier by any means, but it's decent. Sometimes it's great if you have the right cards in hand (e.g. ocean requirement cards). Tharsis also overrated as an A. As soon as you reveal it, people will be careful with placing cities. Its effect is generally worse than Credicor. Generally agree with the rest, though; and I like the format. Nice vid.

Playing with all expansions, Teractor is the best basic company.

Septum Tribus is very strong. When I get this one, my group groans because I'm likely to win. Turn one, get a delegate in every party, keep a delegate in every party, and then you essentially get free 12 MC production for the rest of the game. This makes it explosively good from the start and flexible enough (especially with that Wild Tag) to pursue any strategy you want. S, A, or B card for sure.

Have you even played ranted online games? I think your ratings are quite off

Ecoline sucks. Best are Credicor, IC and Mining Guild.

This video makes me believe that drafting is a far more common mechanic than a niche optional the rulebook had implied.

Hi! Nice videos you made there. Do you have some kind of full Tierlist of all Corporations in one picture?

This was weirdly interesting

These videos are so fun! Thank you mate 🤗

Pretty cool video. Looking forward to see the results!

what are the dimensions for printing this out?

So I just finished watching this video and all your corporation breakdowns. They were quite helpful. In my gaming group, my win rate is very low (probably zero) even out of ~35 games, and so recently I've started to research the strategy to get better at the game. It's not so much that I don't understand how the game works; in fact, I understand it quite well I feel, but I don't have a good sense of what to do in what situations, or what to prioritize. Thank you for these resources, and I am excited to see the next round of the tournament!

This is really cool! I love the concept on it. My feedback on the Milestones and Awards would be: Oceanographer - I like this, but think it needs to be increased to 4 or maybe even 5. If you get the prelude card to lay 2 oceans you're pretty much set on getting it Homesick/Luna Governor - Don't think there should be 2 milestones/awards that look at Earth tags. Deffo keep 1 as its a good mechanic, but change one to something else. Maybe 5 Jovians or something. Not sure. I don't really understand the "Milestone/Awards" award. Is this awarded to the person with the most milestones and awards at the end of the game?

Thank you very much for your efforts.

Minor nit-pick. There's not really a dark side of the moon as all sides see light. It should technically be Farside settler. But darkside definitely sounds better.

Cool ideas! They should have just made another board add on in combination with variable awards/milestones. Too bad now it wouldn't fit in the big box...

I absolutely love this and I need it for myself! Just a small feedback: There needs to be another ocean tile, since there are 3 special tiles (Protected Valley, Mangroves and Mohole Area). I guess if every ocean tile is filled up, you're allowed to play the last ocean or special tile wherever you want. But no matter what, I love this!

Very fun! Do you have an imgur link for all of the categories you can draw? Looking forward to the next one.

Hi, I just got my first copy of TM yesterday, I never played this game but watched how it played from couple of videos, I really have no idea which corp is better than the other until this video of yours explaining it elaborately 😁. Thanks, from 🇮🇩

Good video!

There is an errata here: Ants cannot remove resources from Pharmacy Union, since Ants collect microbes while Pharmacy Union collects diseases - the two resources are different

Could you take a look at the fan made ones via the tfm tabletop simulator? There are a lot there and have gone through a lot of gameplay/balancing through the discord community

I don't think you actually need asteroid cards to make good use of astrodrill. Over 10 generations you get at the very least 16 titanium (9 the first 3 turns then 1 each turn) and generally more since you can save asteroids on your corp and cash them out later when you need titanium. It's pretty good. This corp is like a poorer Phobolog but better against hatedrafting since you already have titanium production built in your corp.

I agree on the ranking of Astrodrill- but if you get the right cards it is so fun! An point, ocean temperature or Venus each round is really strong , and shorten the game by quite a bit, especially if you have several of them

In recent online game stats, Midas had by far the highest winrate, even ahead of the otherwise most broken corps Poseidon. Definitely deserves an A!

Really interesting how much you differ from my group on septem tribus. We decided to stop playing it cause it was too broken haha. Our reasoning is that by paying 13 credits (25 but then immediately 12 back), you get 12 income. It even comes with a wild tag. Everyone who played it did the same line every time, and it was always starting out so consistently strong every time.

I think you missed two corporations from the Big box. Both Astrodrill and Pharmalab. Keep up the good work!

Hi there! Developer of the community corporations here. Interesting video! Fun fact: Agricola Inc's effect is based on the real Agricola board game which implements a similar scoring mechanism. If you are interested to do a Part 2, do check out the community server which features several other corporations: Aristarchus, Colonial One, Hotsprings, Junk Ventures, Labour Union and UNMO. Generally every corp here tries to encourage a different and unique playstyle,

I find Inventrix more flexible than Phoblog. With Inventrix you can easily go for Planner Mile Stone. Science tag is not to be underestimated (It helps to activate IA Central, mass converter, etc. earlier). It's ability is not that bad. With preludes I also managed to play kelp farming in 1st generation which was amazing. Phoblog is not flexible at all. You better find titanium production and some space cards that are good early on. I would place Inventrix with A/B tier and Phoblog with C/D. Don't get me wrong, I had some amazing games with Phoblog, but this corporation is very situational. Tharsis is not that good. More experienced players will avoid placing cities on the board. Playing too many cities as a tharsis is common trap. With no greeneries to follow cities give not many points. Saturn Systems is one of the most flexible corp to play. You start with 42 MC and 4 production (1 MC and 1 Titanium) which is pretty good. You do not any Jovian tags to win, other players play Jovians a little less willingly.

Enjoy hearing different views on how other people play the game. Thanks for the ranking series, it's been great so far.

Where did you get that moon map behind you in the video? I love the goofiness of some of the promo corps.

Funny how ecoline is one of the best corps in 2 player but one the worst in 3 or more... It boils down to getting targeted by hate cards and board dominance. in 2 player games, you cant opt to target anyone else so it doesn't matter what corp you pick in that regard. Plus, having an extra 1 to 3 gens is critical for ecoline cause you can just RAKE in the board points