8.7
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Ludopedia
8.1
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Our Verdict
RECOMMENDED
Turn the galaxy into your personal-profit machine!
Highlights
- Amazing-asymmetric gameplay
- True-to-lore-experience
- High-replayability-factor
Keep in mind
- Requires base game
- Steeper-learning-curve
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About the game
What you do in a play session
Get your profit margins ready, because the Ferengi Alliance is here to prove that space is much more profitable than diplomacy! This expansion for Star Trek: Ascendancy introduces a brand-new-faction focused on one-track-mind-style-economics: making money. Forget about building culture nodes or seeking philosophical enlightenment; for the Ferengi, the only-true-god is the bottom line.
Playing as the Ferengi shifts the-game-play-loop significantly. Instead of traditional-advancement, you'll be leveraging unique-rules like 'Profit Over Profundity' and 'War is Good for Business'. While other-players-are-fighting-over-territory, you can be turning their-conflict into your-gain. You can convert production into culture, build production nodes anywhere, and use your Marauders to enforce your-will across the quadrant.
The expansion also introduces specialized-units and-abilities that allow you to bypass traditional-limitations, such as-moving through warp without exhausting commands. It's a high-stakes-game of economic-dominance where your-goal is to make the-rest-of-the-galaxy look like-small-change compared to your-empire. If you enjoy asymmetric-factions and strategies that reward opportunistic-play and resource-management, this expansion is a must-have for your Star Trek collection. Just remember the Golden Rule: Profit is everything!
Playing as the Ferengi shifts the-game-play-loop significantly. Instead of traditional-advancement, you'll be leveraging unique-rules like 'Profit Over Profundity' and 'War is Good for Business'. While other-players-are-fighting-over-territory, you can be turning their-conflict into your-gain. You can convert production into culture, build production nodes anywhere, and use your Marauders to enforce your-will across the quadrant.
The expansion also introduces specialized-units and-abilities that allow you to bypass traditional-limitations, such as-moving through warp without exhausting commands. It's a high-stakes-game of economic-dominance where your-goal is to make the-rest-of-the-galaxy look like-small-change compared to your-empire. If you enjoy asymmetric-factions and strategies that reward opportunistic-play and resource-management, this expansion is a must-have for your Star Trek collection. Just remember the Golden Rule: Profit is everything!
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Frequently Asked Questions
Quick answers before you buy
Do I need the base game?
Yes, this is an expansion and requires Star Trek: Ascendancy to play.
Does it add more players?
Yes, it adds one additional-player-slot to the game.
Is it language dependent?
Yes, the-content is in English and might require translation for full-immersion.
Is the-Ferengi-faction overpowered?
It is highly asymmetric, meaning it plays differently, but it's balanced for-competitive-play.
How complex is it?
It adds-new-rules, so it's slightly more complex than the-base-game-alone.