by DaviddesJ
MikePustilnik wrote:
DaviddesJ wrote:
The cost of taking Great Start, in terms of turn order, is pretty high. If you get little or nothing in exchange, you're just digging a deeper hole for yourself. I think that's the main issue. You're really gambling to get enough benefit to pay for the cost. If it weren't so costly to take, then I would view it differently. Planning is almost guaranteed to give you some benefit, over the course of the round. Great Start costs you more, in general, yet sometimes it really does you no good at all.
I don't agree with this advice, generally speaking. Suppose your starting hand was Rage, Concentration, Determination, Promise, Threaten. And absolutely terrible hand!:yuk: To make things worse, it's a 4-player game, and Rethink is already taken.:shake:
There's no advice in my quoted text. I didn't say anything about whether to take Great Start or not. Just that when you do it creates new risk, because you might make your position even worse.