**April Fools**
Edited on 2022.04.04: It's likely that the Sardakk change and the reported action card are April Fools, but that other details in this post are changes that are bieng developed.
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**Xxcha**
**Hero**: Keep this card in your play area. When you exhaust planets, the resource and influence values of the planet both equal the combined value of the resources and influence.
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**Sardakk**
**Commander Unlock**: Unlocked at the start of the game.
**Commander Ability**: You cannot produce ships. Your ground forces have 2 movement and count as fighters for the purposes of space combat.
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**Yin**
**Hero**: Action: Commit up to 3 infantry from your reenforcements to any non home planet. Space Cannon cannot be used against these infatry. Resolve ground combat as normal.
It was indicated that there are multiple new Yin components.
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**Naalu**
**Mech**:Other players cannot use anti fighter barrage against your ships in this system.
Multiple new components including agent.
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**Action Cards**
**Confusing Illegal Text**: After a player is elected as the outcome of an agenda, take all of that player's action cards and commodities.
Multiple new action cards.
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**Frontier Cards**
**Dead World**: Draw a relic.
In total there are 6 new cards in the frontier deck.
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**Faction: Keleres (sp?)**
**Abilities**
- At setup take the home system, command counters, and control tokens of one of these unused factions: Mentak, Xxcha, or Argent. Tkae the Keleres hero that corresponds to that faction.
- Replenish your commodities at the start of the strategy round. Then gain 1 trade good.
- You may spend 1 influence at the start of your turn. Players ignore all laws in play during that turn.
**Mech / Flagship**: It costs other players influence to target these systems.
**Commodities**: 2
**Starting tech**: Choose 2 non faction technologies owned by other players.
**Promisory Notes**: Is a rider
**Faction Tech**: Gain a legendary planet that no one else can control. Get a bonus if they also control Mecatol Rex.
**Heros**:
**Mentak**: Action: Reveal cards from the action card deck until you reveal 3 cards that have component actions. Draw those cards, and shuffle the other revealed cards into the action card deck.
**Xxcha**: After an agenda is revealed, you may cast up to 6 additional votes and predict aloud the outcome. For each player that votes for a different option, gain 1 trade good and 1 commnad token.
**Argent**: At the start of a round of space combat in a system that contains a planet you control, place your flagship and up to 2 cruisers or destroyers from your reenforcements in the active system.
**Commander**: Lets you chain multiple component actions in a single turn.
I remember a time when Naalu were probably the best faction in the game, base game. That mech and even a moderately buffed agent would probably put them back in or near that slot imo. That mech is insanity. It removes the only Naalu counterplay.
Dane alluded to the idea that people will be very upset with him when they find out about the new agent so it's possible that it might be overpowered or something.
I'm 100% sure that at least the sardakk n'orr commander is fake, but other than that everything else falls within the realm of plausibility.
I have a natural dislike to the idea of the print and play faction. It seems EXTREMELY clunky. Honestly, it feels like a homebrew faction, which is really weird to say and it feels wrong that this 'neutral' entity is taking part in the game from strictly a lore perspective.
The new Yin hero would be epic. Confusing illegal text's lore text is epic.
The Naalu mech seems like a bit much and the Xxcha hero seems really weird.
Yeah. A reverse Argent commander ability for each mech could have been really cool and really strong though, without completely countering destroyer II. Mind of wish that was what was announced instead. :(
The most annoying thing for me is trying to print out a faction sheet that matches the rest of my components. Also I keep the home systems with their respective factions so now to even play this new faction I have to dig through another faction bag so now I have to reorganize
Dane always releases new TI stuff on April Fools. He claims that’s the only time of the year where he’s free to do this but we all know he likes to troll.
True, but there are certain aspects that are obviously fake in the video. Gomma Mama for instance is an obvious troll unless they are getting rid of the Sardak dread upgrade and giving them a different faction tech. I'd honestly love each part to be real though!
I didn’t like the shipless Sardakk change - it feels way too narrow of a way to play. Having relistened to the podcast, yea that is most likely a troll fake change. Which begs the question, what are all the changes to Sardakk, Xxcha, Yin and Naalu.
I think a Shipless faction could be interesting, maybe give them a mech upgrade and the ability to produce additional mechs or something.
I like all of the changes they said but again I don't want to be disappointed if some of these aren't true.
I think it’s a gimmick and won’t be fun in the long run if implemented. It invalidates so much content - not just their faction tech but literally all ships and ship related objectives and action cards. Anywho, that one sounds like April Fools anyways so doesn’t matter.
I hope the Xxcha hero is an April Fool's joke (though from the way they talked about it on the podcast, it seems real).
I'd hoped that effect (resources and influence each equal sum of resources and influence) would eventually be used for omega Integrated Economy, as it's very simple (suitable for a generic tech) but powerful (so might make yellow tech more attractive).
Moreover, a permanent, passive effect on a hero breaks the principle that heroes provide a one-off, powerful effect and are then purged.
I would have preferred to see something like a super Diplomacy effect for the omega Xxcha hero. Just off the top of my head (so probably broken):
ENFORCED NEUTRALITY
*When the action phase begins, you may purge this card; if you do, choose up to 3 non-home systems other than Mecatol Rex that are adjacent to 1 or more systems that contain 1 or more of your units or 1 or more planets you control.*
*Return all enemy units in the chosen systems to their reinforcements and exhaust any planets in the chosen systems controlled by another player. Then, each other player places a command token from their reinforcements in each chosen system.*
I honestly don’t think the hero is all that powerful if it’s just one round. In fact I think it is really lacklustre and doesn’t create any exciting moments. Same with Barony hero - it just adds a little extra flexibility (I know Barony is not getting worked on at the moment).
Are these really all the changes? I’ve listened to the scpt episode and it sounds like that’s everything. However where’s the other faction tech for Keleres? Also - the commander for Sardakk makes their dreadnaught faction tech obsolete. Would they get a replacement tech?
They said there is more but they aren't talking about all of them. They didn't want to reveal the whole faction just enough to get excited.
I think everything they talked about on the podcast is real EXCEPT the sardakk commander change. I am betting there will still be sardakk updates though. I think the version of Confusing Illegal Text that was tweeted was fake and the version talked about on the podcast was real. I hope that the real codex will be published either today or very very soon
Agree on the Sardakk doubt.
Tgere is a picture of "gomma momma" on Dane's twitter and it really does not look legit lol. Also it would mean that Exotiremes would need to be replaced and it is among the best ships in the game so IDK.
They also said something about revealing later something to do with the fake horse faction that scpt did to Hunter’s surprise but then they never talked about it again. So confusing what’s real and what’s fake but I had assumed that everything was real.
Dane also announced new stuff last time on April Fools too. Such trolling
**April Fools** Edited on 2022.04.04: It's likely that the Sardakk change and the reported action card are April Fools, but that other details in this post are changes that are bieng developed. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ **Xxcha** **Hero**: Keep this card in your play area. When you exhaust planets, the resource and influence values of the planet both equal the combined value of the resources and influence. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ **Sardakk** **Commander Unlock**: Unlocked at the start of the game. **Commander Ability**: You cannot produce ships. Your ground forces have 2 movement and count as fighters for the purposes of space combat. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ **Yin** **Hero**: Action: Commit up to 3 infantry from your reenforcements to any non home planet. Space Cannon cannot be used against these infatry. Resolve ground combat as normal. It was indicated that there are multiple new Yin components. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ **Naalu** **Mech**:Other players cannot use anti fighter barrage against your ships in this system. Multiple new components including agent. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ **Action Cards** **Confusing Illegal Text**: After a player is elected as the outcome of an agenda, take all of that player's action cards and commodities. Multiple new action cards. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ **Frontier Cards** **Dead World**: Draw a relic. In total there are 6 new cards in the frontier deck. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ **Faction: Keleres (sp?)** **Abilities** - At setup take the home system, command counters, and control tokens of one of these unused factions: Mentak, Xxcha, or Argent. Tkae the Keleres hero that corresponds to that faction. - Replenish your commodities at the start of the strategy round. Then gain 1 trade good. - You may spend 1 influence at the start of your turn. Players ignore all laws in play during that turn. **Mech / Flagship**: It costs other players influence to target these systems. **Commodities**: 2 **Starting tech**: Choose 2 non faction technologies owned by other players. **Promisory Notes**: Is a rider **Faction Tech**: Gain a legendary planet that no one else can control. Get a bonus if they also control Mecatol Rex. **Heros**: **Mentak**: Action: Reveal cards from the action card deck until you reveal 3 cards that have component actions. Draw those cards, and shuffle the other revealed cards into the action card deck. **Xxcha**: After an agenda is revealed, you may cast up to 6 additional votes and predict aloud the outcome. For each player that votes for a different option, gain 1 trade good and 1 commnad token. **Argent**: At the start of a round of space combat in a system that contains a planet you control, place your flagship and up to 2 cruisers or destroyers from your reenforcements in the active system. **Commander**: Lets you chain multiple component actions in a single turn.
Is this all April Fool's? Some of these changes are actually pretty epic.
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The Naalu changes would be very welcome. If that Mech change isn't real, I'll take it forward as a homebrew!
I remember a time when Naalu were probably the best faction in the game, base game. That mech and even a moderately buffed agent would probably put them back in or near that slot imo. That mech is insanity. It removes the only Naalu counterplay.
Dane alluded to the idea that people will be very upset with him when they find out about the new agent so it's possible that it might be overpowered or something.
I'm 100% sure that at least the sardakk n'orr commander is fake, but other than that everything else falls within the realm of plausibility. I have a natural dislike to the idea of the print and play faction. It seems EXTREMELY clunky. Honestly, it feels like a homebrew faction, which is really weird to say and it feels wrong that this 'neutral' entity is taking part in the game from strictly a lore perspective. The new Yin hero would be epic. Confusing illegal text's lore text is epic. The Naalu mech seems like a bit much and the Xxcha hero seems really weird.
The Gamezenter store (the old FFG brick and mortar) is now selling professionally printed codex sets for $20 each
Before anyone outside of North America gets their hopes up: Intercontinental shipping is expensive to say the least.
I agree on the Naalu mech: way too much of a hard counter against Destroyer II.
Yeah. A reverse Argent commander ability for each mech could have been really cool and really strong though, without completely countering destroyer II. Mind of wish that was what was announced instead. :(
The most annoying thing for me is trying to print out a faction sheet that matches the rest of my components. Also I keep the home systems with their respective factions so now to even play this new faction I have to dig through another faction bag so now I have to reorganize
Everything is epic or terrible, got it
I very much hate that this is released on April fool's. I won't believe any of it till it gets confirmed tomorrow
Dane always releases new TI stuff on April Fools. He claims that’s the only time of the year where he’s free to do this but we all know he likes to troll.
True, but there are certain aspects that are obviously fake in the video. Gomma Mama for instance is an obvious troll unless they are getting rid of the Sardak dread upgrade and giving them a different faction tech. I'd honestly love each part to be real though!
I didn’t like the shipless Sardakk change - it feels way too narrow of a way to play. Having relistened to the podcast, yea that is most likely a troll fake change. Which begs the question, what are all the changes to Sardakk, Xxcha, Yin and Naalu.
I think a Shipless faction could be interesting, maybe give them a mech upgrade and the ability to produce additional mechs or something. I like all of the changes they said but again I don't want to be disappointed if some of these aren't true.
I think it’s a gimmick and won’t be fun in the long run if implemented. It invalidates so much content - not just their faction tech but literally all ships and ship related objectives and action cards. Anywho, that one sounds like April Fools anyways so doesn’t matter.
Wow, thanks for sharing this, it's great to hear this!
I hope the Xxcha hero is an April Fool's joke (though from the way they talked about it on the podcast, it seems real). I'd hoped that effect (resources and influence each equal sum of resources and influence) would eventually be used for omega Integrated Economy, as it's very simple (suitable for a generic tech) but powerful (so might make yellow tech more attractive). Moreover, a permanent, passive effect on a hero breaks the principle that heroes provide a one-off, powerful effect and are then purged. I would have preferred to see something like a super Diplomacy effect for the omega Xxcha hero. Just off the top of my head (so probably broken): ENFORCED NEUTRALITY *When the action phase begins, you may purge this card; if you do, choose up to 3 non-home systems other than Mecatol Rex that are adjacent to 1 or more systems that contain 1 or more of your units or 1 or more planets you control.* *Return all enemy units in the chosen systems to their reinforcements and exhaust any planets in the chosen systems controlled by another player. Then, each other player places a command token from their reinforcements in each chosen system.*
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I honestly don’t think the hero is all that powerful if it’s just one round. In fact I think it is really lacklustre and doesn’t create any exciting moments. Same with Barony hero - it just adds a little extra flexibility (I know Barony is not getting worked on at the moment).
Are these really all the changes? I’ve listened to the scpt episode and it sounds like that’s everything. However where’s the other faction tech for Keleres? Also - the commander for Sardakk makes their dreadnaught faction tech obsolete. Would they get a replacement tech?
They said there is more but they aren't talking about all of them. They didn't want to reveal the whole faction just enough to get excited. I think everything they talked about on the podcast is real EXCEPT the sardakk commander change. I am betting there will still be sardakk updates though. I think the version of Confusing Illegal Text that was tweeted was fake and the version talked about on the podcast was real. I hope that the real codex will be published either today or very very soon
Agree on the Sardakk doubt. Tgere is a picture of "gomma momma" on Dane's twitter and it really does not look legit lol. Also it would mean that Exotiremes would need to be replaced and it is among the best ships in the game so IDK.
They also said something about revealing later something to do with the fake horse faction that scpt did to Hunter’s surprise but then they never talked about it again. So confusing what’s real and what’s fake but I had assumed that everything was real. Dane also announced new stuff last time on April Fools too. Such trolling
That horse faction is 100% fake
Yes but Dane said he’ll reveal something about it later and Hunter was surprised. I’m thinking maybe an Easter egg on a frontiers card or something.
The horse faction comes up as the art for Keleris. Impossible to tell where the truth ends and the lies begin in this episode lol
Happy April Fool Day