by bandit_boy7
allstar64 wrote:
Forget 'not used often', it's not used at all if the players are good (Barring certain special abilities that actually can benefit from it like Orcs, Pillaging and Gypsies).
Um...I'm a good player, and I actually favor that strategy. While this is not the place to debate the validity of the re-entry strategy, I did just want to reassure the OP that it is not an unusable/unused strategy. In fact the value of it raises with the number of players in the game, IMO, sometimes even regardless of the special abilities of your race.
allstar64 wrote:
You will not win against good players without a declined race and if you are picking up constantly you won't have a meaningful one.
While this is a true statement, it seems to not take into consideration that a player could conceivably decline his first race and while that race is still on the board over the next few turns, he could make an entry with his new active race, and then a re-entry as well. (And all this can be done to advantage against "good players".)