Post originally by Mike Zebrowski at 2004-11-17 13:58:29
Converted from Phorums BB System

Attack Expansion as a few bugs worth mentioning.

1) Player 1 effectly skips his next turn. If you are player 1, then all the other players get to go twice before you can act again.

What does this mean? It means that another player can build units twice and attack you twice before you have a chance to respond.

I don't know about other people, but being attacked two turns in a row with zero chance of responding is not fun.

2) Hideous downtime. With a full table of players, it can easily take 30 - 45 minutes to play a turn. This means that if you are player 1, you might wait up to 60 - 90 minutes before you get your next turn.

3) Oil is the life blood of the game in the expansion. No sane person will trade oil with you if you don't have any.

Unfortunately, the randomness of the economic cards makes protecting your oil fields and attacking the oil fields of your opponent impossible. It is all the luck of the draw.

4) The instant army syndrome. It is possible for a player to take over any territory in the world with a political card or diplomatic blitz, build a huge army there, and attack from it on the same turn.

This means that if you have even 1 neutral country next to your capital, an opponent can take it over, build a huge army, and then take out your capital. All before you even have a chance to respond.

This is the equivelent of Nazi Germany becoming allies with Mexico, building an army there and then attacking the Southern US without the US military even noticing!

Mike Z