Nice strategy! I actually went in the other direction, mostly using agenda cards for their actions with matching focus cards, rather than slotting them in. Someone may have been awful about building up food production to handle those upkeep costs. Ha! But I want to try locking in a few earlier on in the future. Love how many different ways there are to play, and how you can have a lot of fun trying things out. All the best to you with your next play!

I can see how it can be difficult! This smaller initial map probably made it easier for me. The glossary seemed to help me a little bit, in that I didn’t have to rely on the icons on the sector tiles but had text descriptions to look up. Hope you still enjoy playing the game!

My last plays I did focused on score points so on Cicle 1 I had already three agendas on board and Cicle 2 and 3 I play only with 3 sectors and developing around those agendas. It really helped me. It was an economic strategy and I’m really interested on try a combat strat next time.