Comments on: Dale Yu: Review of Ethnos 2nd Ed https://opinionatedgamers.com/2025/02/04/dale-yu-review-of-ethnos-2nd-ed/ Reviews and Commentary on Boardgames Sun, 09 Feb 2025 04:13:30 +0000 hourly 1 By: Dale Yu https://opinionatedgamers.com/2025/02/04/dale-yu-review-of-ethnos-2nd-ed/#comment-199465 Sun, 09 Feb 2025 04:13:30 +0000 https://opinionatedgamers.com/?p=80897#comment-199465 In reply to Darren Humphrey.

I am not familiar with waddle waddle. Thanks for the tip

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By: Darren Humphrey https://opinionatedgamers.com/2025/02/04/dale-yu-review-of-ethnos-2nd-ed/#comment-199464 Sun, 09 Feb 2025 04:00:06 +0000 https://opinionatedgamers.com/?p=80897#comment-199464 Waddle Waddle from Brushtail Games (brushtail games dot com) has similar mechanics to Ethnos, but adds a mechanism to eliminate the topdecking aspect of Ethnos, plus it adds variable player powers.

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By: huzonfirst https://opinionatedgamers.com/2025/02/04/dale-yu-review-of-ethnos-2nd-ed/#comment-199421 Wed, 05 Feb 2025 18:51:31 +0000 https://opinionatedgamers.com/?p=80897#comment-199421 In reply to Carl.

Ethnos is a pretty good game, but its biggest flaw is that it usually includes a huge amount of topdecking, which I find quite unsatisfying. The fix you cite from Archeos Society may not be the best one I could imagine (let’s compensate for having to topdeck with more topdecking), but it’s certainly better than nothing. You could always add it to Ethnos v2 as a house rule, but I understand that a lot of players don’t like to do that. I’ve always been puzzled that Ethnos’ rules encourage so many blind draws from the deck and I’m even more puzzled that they didn’t include the designer’s fix for it from the expansion.

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By: Carl https://opinionatedgamers.com/2025/02/04/dale-yu-review-of-ethnos-2nd-ed/#comment-199420 Wed, 05 Feb 2025 14:45:41 +0000 https://opinionatedgamers.com/?p=80897#comment-199420 Thanks for the review.
It looks that the extra rule in Archeos Society has not been added: when there are no more faced up ally cards to draw from the common pool, you may draw 2 cards from the deck instead of one. Too bad, as we have enjoyed it in Ethnos v1.

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