The Grid "fixes" make the mission even more unbalanced

The Grid's always had an issue where the player going first had the potential to cause an impossible blowout victory to catch up to by destroying any 5 antennas on turn 2. This lead to player 2 being locked out 6 VPs for the remaining 5 player turns.

While it's a mission I do enjoy it's always had issues that have needed fixing.

Now initially I looked at the changes in season 10, which looked like a good fix. The far Antennas are the only ones that count for destroying antennas. So in theory, player 1 destroys 3 far antennas, then player 2 destroys their 3 far antennas, and now both players are tied and the game continues on.

The problem is it doesn't work that way.

Now what happens is player 1 goes first and on turn 2:

• Destroys 1 far antenna.
• Destroys the 3 close antennas
  

Now they've only destroyed 4 antennas instead of 5, and they lock their opponent out of scoring more destroyed antennas because they can't possibly destroy any antennas now.

If player 1 destroys a 5th antenna, as before with last season, their opponent is now locked out of 8 VPs instead of 6, because killing the DVT with a data tracker no longer does anything.

Speaking of which Datatracker is listed in the mission rules but not actually given a subsection, seems like a typo and it's not meant to be in this mission.

@HellLois Is this how it was intended to be? Have I misunderstood the rules of the scenario in some fashion? It seems like season 10's grid is unfortunately even worse than season 9.

 

That's... a pretty bad misprint. What about the data tracker, what parts of that were misprinted do we have confirmation on that yet?

 

yeah that sounds like something that should be made public.