Whats your favorite race?

Mines the Federation of Sol

Of the six games that I've played, I've played:

1. Mentak

2. Letnev

3. Yssarril

4. Hacan

5. Sol

6. Arborec

Of those, I think I liked Sol the best, but to be fair, I played the base game only with Mentak, and only Shattered Empire with Letnev.  I know that I would have enjoyed both of them more with the full complement of expansions. 

The Emirates of Hacan. Simply because TG's are so versatile.

Yeah, Hacan was a lot of fun, too.  As was Yssarril.  And so was Arborec this last Saturday.  And I really want to try L1Z1X.  And Muuat.  And Saar.  And I definitely want to try Saardak N'orr to see if the anti-hype is correct. 

Hell, I just want to play. 

Hacan all the way here! It's such an amazing race with their trade abilities. Their Trade Good income is so useful. You can compensate for an poor ressource system with them. You can also claim a lot of Objectives like ''I spend X influence/ressource. They are kinda close to War Sun tech. Everyone wanna trade with you since you're the only race with 3/3 Trade Agreement.

Jol-Nar University are also one of my favorite. They can do the ''Nano tech trick'' if everything goes smootly on first turn. They lack firepower early game but middle-late game, they steamroll pretty much anyone with their big techs. The only thing I dislike about them is the lack of starting GFs. But well those 4 basic techs compensate for it I'd say.
 

Fer chizz gotta love being the Hacan! All those lovely trade goods are soooo handy! But hands down I still love the Federation of Sol the most. I normally get the most fun out of being an war-mongering empire building 'human-superiority' type of player when I play Sol. Their Carriers with 8 capacity and Sustain Damage are zee best! And I always have a sick amount of GF, and the ability to place 2 free ground force on a planet they control can be so handy especially when that planet is waaaaaay away from your production centers. Starting with all those GF's and carries makes early expansion super easy. And...I just love feeling like I'm the champion of the human race by bringing humans to the foremost place in the galaxy!

On a side note, the N'orr do suck. their racial ability isn't that good until it gets compounded with a bunch of other techs and bonuses, and they have crappy starting units. Unless they get 'Production', or 'Imperial II' you'll probably only take one new planet on in the first game round, which puts them at a huge disadvantage. However with the new racial tech and flagship found in both expansions i have hope that this race will be alot better to play as.

Sol, for me, I do think their flaggie is one of the most underpowered though compared to some.

Mentak flag is dirty, And don't even get me started on the Nekrovirus one.

second favourit for me is the Winnu.

Ya the Sol flagship isn't the best. although one game i placed it in a fleet with 2 cruisers, 2 dreads, 2 carriers (with 8 fighters each) and had my flagship loaded with 3 MI's and 16 GF's! My plan was to conquer Mecatol Rex and Hope's End and a couple other good planets but alas it was not to be, due to 2 CONSECUTIVE 'Signal Jamming's played on my fleet in two game rounds my fleet was never used. But on the upside i won that game

 Yssaril is probably my favorite because of the action cards. I enjoy finding different combinations to use them.

But they are so strong I never play them.

Bill

L1Z1x is a favorite race.

You can go down any tech branch you want and build any type of fleet you want.  It has bonuses in all types of fleet mixes.

The very large homeworld makes sure that if you get handed only influence planets that you are still in the game.  You can still buy tech and ships.

Barony is a favorite too because of the very large homesystem.  Barony only need 3 or 4 techs to do well in the game.

I like to have at least 12 resources to play with in a game and L1Z1x and Barony gets me 1/2 way there.

If the galaxy ends up being very low in resources, these races can beat up other races pretty easy.

Other races are interesting but if you only have a 3 resource homeworld and get 4 resources of planets, you are stuck with a choice of either buying a tech or ships but not both.   You end up turtling for most of the game because you cannot replace your losses.   If your neighbors won't have a nonaggression treaty with you,  the odds of you winning the game is zero.  The chances of you getting eliminated, moderate to high especially if you score your Secret Objective too early.

Im a big fan of the Hacan, I love having three homeworlds, one of my often used strategies is to place all my space docks on my home system and have more production capacity than I need.  Mixed with proper techs like XRD transporters and the mobility issues are easily overcome.  Of course their is the unmatched trade potential of the race.

I like playing the Mentak as well, but more for their starting conditions than racial abilities, though I find their combat ability to be a good deterant in the early game which gives them room to grow.  In my circles it currently holds the top spot for the most picked race and most winningest (is that a word?) race.

For a challenge and assuming Leaders are in play I like to run the Xxcha.  I find them tricky and hard to win with, but the victory is so much sweeter when you pull it off with a weaker race like this and there is the fact that Im a huge fan of Gamera movies which my father used to take me to when I was a kid.

Races I hate the most is the Ysarril tribes.  I don't like playing against them and I extend the curtiousy to my fellow players by never choosing them (we usually do draw two pick one).  Anytime they find their way in the game they are automatically the enemy of everyone at the table and I suspect it is because most of my group understands how big of a threat they are, so its always a struggle to win with them despite the races overall strength. I don't like to start in a position of not even having the possibility of a diplomatic exchange with other players like that right from the get go.

I also find the Clan of Saar hard to play with, something about the change in dynamics has always been hard to overcome for me, though I know players who love them and play them to great success. 

 My favorite used to be the Saar.  I thought their moving space docks were awesome and I loved that in their fluff they were basically the galaxy's underdogs. However, with the release of Shards, Creuss is easily my new favorite. With all the tricks with wormholes they can pull, they're even more mobile than the Saar. With their home system located on the other side of a wormhole, their home system is very hard to take over. If you keep a fleet parked on the outside of the wormhole, you can have two lines of defenses guarding your home world. I love the fluff on Creuss as well, with them being the most strange and foreign things in the galaxy.

I've been playing the two very differently though. With Saar I would always maintain lots of little fleets to keep my spacedocks well screened and far apart. But with Creuss I always have one big armada, because of the built-in wormhole on the Hil Colish.

every race is equally fun..... Except Muuat, Fuck Muuat

I have yet to play as the Saar or the Ghosts of Creuss

Now is it just me, or does no one like being the N'orr? When I played as them once I found they were pretty handicapped during the first couple of game rounds. Anyone else find this?

 Ya among my circles its considered the worse race in the game by a considerable margin.  Their racial ability is geared towards an element of the game that really has little to do with winning, their starting conditions are terrible in almost every aspect of the game and because they have the potential to be a real threat to players later in the game they often get taken advantage of early in the game When I made my homebrew expansion lovingly called Balance of Power fixing them was the first order of business.  By the time I finished the expansion the sardek and xxcha where the only races I made changes to.  I have come up with some strategies that work under certain circumstances but generally speaking its as weak of a race as they come.

BigKahuna said:

What changes did you make to those two races? Because I've been thinking of making my own to the N'orr and the first thing I thought of doing was giving them an extra carrier as well as Anti-Mass Deflectors at the beginning.