Milestones and Awards
So I picked up the Milestones and Awards expansion for my playgroup. We'd been playing the same maps for a long time and hoped they'd add some strategic varieties. At first they were great, very refreshing, but after a while I came to feel like they added more randomness to a game that already had high variance. The online generator solved some of this problem by reducing the chances of crazy, game breaking M&A synergies, but I still came to miss the way the standard M&As give the boards their different personalities (e.g. how Rim Settler on Hellas contributes towards it being the 'engine building board').
So it got me thinking... could there be alternate *sets* of M&As for each of the boards?
An obvious one would be 'Mirror Tharsis' - milestones replaced by equivalent awards and vice-versa:
Milestones:
- Landshaper (1 city, l greenery, and l special tile) - not exactly the equivalent of Landlord, but it's the closest
- Fundraiser (12 ME production) - milestone analogue of Banker
- Researcher (4 science tags) - milestone analogue of Scientist
- Thawer (Having raised temperature 5 times) - not exactly Thermalist, but closest there is
- Metallurgist (6 steel production and titanium production combined) - closest to Miner
Awards:
- Metropolist (Most cities) - direct analogue of Mayor
- Cultivator (Most greeneries) - direct analogue of Gardener
- Contractor (Most building tags) - direct analogue of Contractor
- Visionary (Most cards in hand) - direct analogue of Planner
- Benefactor (Highest TR) - direct analogue of Terraformer
But that's a bit obvious and I wonder if anybody can come up with any sets that complement the boards' existing characters?
Milestones and Awards on Fryxgames.se with complete list and explanation
Posted Sep 25, 2025, 5:41 PM UTC