Gaia Project The Lost Fleet (feu1852)

After 1 play. Expansion expands already wide action and decision space of the base game.

+Faction Rebalanced +New Opportunity and other currency action +Opening position less obvious +Gaiaformers serve greater purpose -Map expanding even more. Harder to charge. Some factions suffer from this.

I thought at first the original game didn't need an expansion, it probably didn't as a solo game but it had some issues, such as "better" factions than others, gaia formers could become a bit useless... I really like the attempt at balancing factions and making all the tech tree branches feel useful. So now I think it's a great game both for solo and multiplayer if you are ok with a bit longer games. For multiplayer the total number of factions is a bit too much but its a great variety for solo.

The Lost Fleet expansion for Gaia Project fixes all the problems with the base game and establishes it as the best TM game and as the premier heavy strategy euro. In addition to greatly improving the balance across multiple aspects from factions to tech tracks, The Lost Fleet greatly improves the mid- and late-game interactions by increasing the resources factions will obtain, allowing them to fight over critical points in a way that was difficult before. This addresses the issue of runaway leaders and front-loaded interactions that exist in other TM games.

Best game in the system. This expansion makes the base game significantly better, even though it doesn’t add that much content. It actually made me downrank Age of Innovation, because this game is clearly superior. The only thing I dislike is the artwork.