Hi ,

I usually play US-France and really liked this game for a very long time, but since a couple of months now I'm having trouble enjoying playing this game.

I mean, I'm one of the players who have only one of each card in my deck and get into the officers club, but it is just not fun anymore to try it simply because of a repeating pattern of strategies my opponents use.

For example, I avoid the "Rage" Mechanism at all in my deck and does not even use the Tech-Tree-Card, just because I find it to be a very stupid playstyle. It has too much power.

Like other overpowered Card-Combos things like "Rage" are too powerful and as such get abused by other players constantly, which makes a battle not very fun anymore. Instead of a real fight, you get stuff where you can't even play a card anymore on your side, or loose even when you have fought your way up, just because one card says "Every damage your HQ took will be inflicted on the opponents HQ" or so... Where's the logic in that?

I really really liked the relaxing playsessions I had with this game, but it is getting too repetitive and I find myself playing other games much more entertaining these days.

I hope this will change some day, but since those cards are in play, I just don't like playing for longer than a match because I get reminded about the same loop of opponents to face.

It does not make much difference if the opponent has 13 Kredits or 23 Kredits. The Rage/Retribution-Mechanism is just too powerfull even under 10 Kredits, because it can be so easily implemented by just having units to sacrife and is so rich in lethal potential.

Have fun and I had a great time with real good opponents which I respect.

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Edit to list some things that are too weird to be fun:
The Rage/Retribution system is mostly stupid because of the high outcome plus the replicating process. But other mechanism like duplicating some gold cards that wipe the entire field, the US-Nuke in general or like I said the russian perversion of hitting their own HQ to destroy the opponents... Where in history is that founded? Or other mechanism depending on how many cards have been played on each side and the opponent gets the damage, which leads to a turn where all of the sudden the opponent drops a bunch of cards and you have no way to counter it because you are dead.

Alright, I can understand the scorched earth theme, but if just some of those mechanism would be more complementary and not ultra-power, it would bring in more diversity, instead of everybody trying to go for that one combo.

If such mechanism like Retribution rule a field that hard because of the high output, then you can be assure that it will be abused by some players and create an environment that people don't have fun to play in.

I would say that you are not allowed to copy golden cards would be a huge win for more fun in a game. And like you guys hinted maybe an Energy-Cap at 15 or so. I had once a match where I had to survive 3 or 4 Nukes. How's that any fun?

I'd say maybe a finite pool of retribution-cards without having the one that gives you 2 would be helpfull, aside from a Kredit-Cap at like 15 or so. If the opponent has many credits but not getting enough cards, then what use are the kredits...

I mean, the battle should be like a conversation going forth and back, not like a one sided monologue of one player while the other can play their cards without being an influence to the opponent, because their strategy does not involve the opponent in other means than destroying your units.

That's just no fun.