Scythia Puns

I have recently bought and played my first worker placement game: Raiders of Scythia! I love the game, and I have the feeling I want to explore worker placement a bit more.

Would it be worth it to get Dune: Imperium as well, or are the games too similar in a few areas? They are both worker placement with a twist, medium difficulty, for 4 players.

Maybe you think I should get a different game altogether, by all means please recommend it! Maybe something more traditional like Viticulture or Agricola?

Update: Thanks all for the comments! I decides to go for Dune: Imperium

As the title says, I'd like to offload all of these games together since they aren't worth much individually. Selling price is $50 OBO, plus shipping. I compare PirateShip / Abecorn for lowest shipping cost.

On the other hand, if you'd really prefer one or more individually, by all means send offers.

Edit: SOLD

Why is the Mistress Scythia a Legendary card?

This should be a common card with lots of negative stuff attached.

Description: "Roar: Destroy all cards in your deck with cost 2 or less."

Why would anyone with the right mind destroy all their 2 mana or less cards in a deck?

What benefit is there? How do you fill the unused mana (2 or less) if your high mana cards don't fit perfectly the current mana cycle?

Both seem similar and relatively new. Looking to play solo but may play at 2 and 3 players occasionally. I like the warband aspect in RoS. I like the theme of Hadrians Wall but the board looks really "busy." Does it click pretty fast or does it take a few plays?

They both look interesting so any aspects that makes one better/stand out more?

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I’ve kinda got an idea on how to play Royale Scythia in multiplayer but I’m still not that good, any tips that could help me?

Playing at higher difficulty, Immortal and Deity. I've been trying to capitalize on their double unit production for cavalry units while using Grand Master's Chapel to produce Siege and Support units. I beeline Horseback Riding and then Apprenticeship to boost productivity for infrastructure, while snatching up techs that upgrade cavalry units as they get boosted. And I try to get to Nationalism as quick as possible for Corps. Pay unit maintenance cost by aggressively spreading my religion early with the Tithe promotion. Early war in Ancient and Classical is never a problem and usually field a large enough army to make the AI think twice about attacking me. But it all just kind of peters out midway thru the Industrial era and doesn't feel effective, even when my tech is on par or above the AI. Thinking I might be over-investing in Holy Sites to boost Faith purchasing? I'm basically only building Holy Sites, Encampments, Campuses, Industrial Zones in every city and a Theater Square, Commercial Hub, Harbor where they feel relevant.

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#Scythia

##Unique Ability

People of the Steppe

• Receive a second Light Cavalry unit each time a Light Cavalry unit or Saka Horse Archer is trained

##Unique Unit

Saka Horse Archer

• Unit type: Ranged Cavalry
• Requires: Horeseback Riding tech
• Replaces: None
• Cost
  • 100 Production cost (Standard Speed)
• Maintenance
  • 2 Gold per turn
• Base Stats
  • 20 Combat Strength
  • 25 Ranged Strenth
  • 1 Attack Range
  • 4 Movement points
  • 2 Sight
• Bonus Stats
  • Ignores enemy zone of control
  • -17 Ranged Strength against district defenses and naval units

##Unique Infrastructure

Kurgan

• Infrastructure type: Improvement
• Requires: Animal Husbandry tech
• Base Effects
  • +1 Faith
  • +3 Gold
• Adjacency Bonuses
  • +1 Faith for each adjacent Pasture
• Upgrades
  • +1 additional Faith for each adjacent Pasture upon researching Stirrups tech
  • Provides Tourism equal to its Faith output upon researching Flight tech
• Restrictions
  • Cannot be built on Hills tiles

#Leader: Tomyris

##Leader Ability

Killer of Cyrus

• All units gain +5 Combat Strength against damaged units
• All units heal up to 30 Health upon defeating an enemy unit

##Agenda

Backstab Averse

• Likes civilizations who are declared friends
• Dislikes civilizations who backstab declared friends and declare surprise wars

#Useful Topics for Discussion

• What do you like or dislike about this civilization?
• How easy or difficult is this civ to use for new players?
• What are the victory paths you can go for with this civ?
• What are your assessments regarding the civ's abilities?
  • How well do they synergize with each other?
  • How well do they compare to other similar civ abilities, if any?
  • Do you often use their unique

Looking to mainly trade but open to selling. All games in good condition.

For Trade or Sale:

Dead Men Tell No Tales $25

Disney Gargoyles: Awakening $20

Eldritch Horror $20

Warhammer Age of Sigmar: The Rise & Fall of Anvalor $15

Want in Trade:

Nemo's War

Lost Ruins of Arnak

Marvel Champions expansions

Anything in my Wants list here: https://boardgamegeek.com/collection/user/Jreilly89?want=1&subtype=boardgame&ff=1

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Help. No one else seems to be as inept as me...

Several Crew actions say "Gain X Card(s)" and I can't figure out if I'm doing it right.

Does this mean ANY card (Animals or Crew) or just draw from the crew deck? Can you take from the discard? Where am I missing the explanation for this action?

Thanks!

Dev Diary 12: Scythia and Sardinia (Part 1)

Today we’ll be talking about part 1 of Scythian and Sardinian content coming in the future.

Hello everyone, it's Eleran (OmegaCorps) and Hannibal_theCannibal (traced_169) back again to talk to you all about our next project. Following the good feedback we received from the 'Forgotten Children of Hellas' mission, we took the lessons learned and turned our attention to something a bit more focused and ambitious in scope, namely Scythia and her neighbours.

---Geographic and Game Start Changes---

In its base form, Scythia is an underperforming steppe tribe that is usually destined for either rapid defeat by its neighbours or, at best, relative obscurity. Scythia's lack of presence in the region and general lack of flavour is acutely felt, as any Scythian player will tell you. In addition to this, Scythia's capital is outside it's historical borders at game start and it's close relatives / rivals, the (archaeologically estimated) ‘Sarmatian’ successor tribes, the Iazyges and Roxolani, are absent from the base game - during the 3rd century, migrations stemming from eastern expansion pushed many step groups westwards, across the pontic-caspian steppe, forcing them into the originally 'Royal Scythian realm. To address this, we've undertaken a slight rework of the Taurica and Sarmatia regions of the map to estimate the general zones of habitation and control each tribe would have during this fluid period.

Before:

https://preview.redd.it/t68qb4jp1ze71.png?width=876&format=png&auto=webp&s=a67438f15f775121735e71df1ee57a9fd737e7d7

After:

https://preview.redd.it/m0lwhomq1ze71.png?width=773&format=png&auto=webp&s=b40b63df2737861f1baf322a320dcf85556cfe03

A few changes should be immediately obvious: Scythia has been split effectively in two between Scythia proper to the west and the new tag, Iazyges, to the east. Scythia's new capital will be on the Dnieper River on the previously uncolonized province of "Ish", which will be renamed to Borysthenia in order to complement the selection of Greek names given to territories in this region. (Though we would have preferred to name the capital city in its original Scythian or even corresponding Greek name, sadly no surviving records are available to us.)

As Scythia's supposed royal residence/capital during and after the long and prosperous reign of king Ateas was a hub of both land and sea trade, we were looking into mak

I'm a new player, im currently stuck on a siege against Scythia. Playing as Rome. Which units should be I using and how do I deal with their archers?

Hey there! I’m selling these three games together as a value bundle: Raiders of Scythia, Troyes Dice, and Love Letter

Raiders of Scythia - played twice and in excellent condition; fully sleeved with premium sleeves and includes an Ultra Pro Deck box

Troyes Dice - played solo 3-4 times and in excellent condition

Love Letter - played 2-3 times and fully sleeved as well; drawstring bag version

Selling all three together for $37 plus shipping to your door! (CONUS should be $13-15) I’ll also cover PayPal GS fees

SOLD SOLD SOLD

For Sale/Trade:

• Through the Ages (new in shrink)
• Smallworld (played a few times)
• Raiders of Scythia (played once)
• Hadrian's Wall (played once)

Looking for:

• Cuba Libre
• A Feast for Odin
• Decrypto
• Any other offers

From the Wikipedia article on Picts. I think it’s such an interesting thing to think about. Obviously the Picts did not descend from Scythians, however, one could imagine that it’s based off of a very distant folk memory in which the Picts have an idea that their ancestors came from the Pontic Steppes - with “Scythians” being the best descriptor of these ancestors that they had. It’s too bad that the claim seems to be dismissed so readily, I really wish there was more to know about this.

Played twice. Everything in excellent condition!

Local pickup also available at 95014.

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Other games for trade: BluePrints Point Salad Dice Forge Mariposa, NMBR9 (two copies for 8 players max) Paperback Reef Yardmaster Express kickstarter edition

Want: Raiders of Scythia, Suburbia collectors edition, The Search for Planet X, The Hunger, Troyes, Dinosaur World

Relative newbie - haven't played much since near game launch. I have always had an interest in the Scythians and was wondering what the best opening moves would be for a campaign as them.

Thanks!

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H:

Beyond the Sun

Raiders of Scythia

King of Tokyo Dark Ed.

Paris

Secret Hitler

Architects of the WK KS edition w/metal coins

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Yokohama Deluxe

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City of the Big Shoulders

Clank! Legacy

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