Rex: Final Days of an Empire - Tips & Strategies

When you win as an alliance, you can still lose the game if your ally has satisfied and chooses to reveal his betrayal card. If your ally(ies) have any interest in winning solo, you can count on them revealing their card if they’ve managed to satisfy the betrayal criteria, so if you’re in an alliance going for the win, know what the betrayal cards are and figure out which one you’re opponent might have. The higher rated card wins over a lower rated card if more than one betrayal card is revealed by a winning alliance. The cards are as follows:

1: Path of Peace: most units in Galactic Council
2: Cautious Command: least unit casualties
3: Ready for the Aftermath: most influence in reserve
4: Control Mecatol City: most units on board
5: Control the Populous: control most spaces
6: Lead the Assault: control most strongholds
7: Rule the skies: control Civilian Spaceport and Imperial Navy Base
8: Master of Deceit: control no strongholds

Either through diplomacy or your actions, don’t allow your alliance to win unless either you guarantee your ally doesn’t satisfy their card and/or you have satisfied the requirements of your betrayal card of a higher value.

I know a lot of ya’ll have most likely already done this, but just in case:
You can get a huge bag of ziploc style bags at Hobby Lobby or Michaels in the jewelry section that fit the cards and compnents in Rex perfectly. I have all of the cards and tokens for each race in their own bag, as well as all of the other game components seperated as well. When we sit down to play, I hand everyone their bag, and while they unpack it, I setup the board and we are good to go. Saves a ton of time!

Have fun gaming!

The Jol-Nar have an amazing ability to see most of the strategy cards that come up in the game before players bid on them to put the cards into their hand. This is a great power that can be used very strategically in knowing which cards to bid on or pass on. But more than that, is knowing most of what other players are holding in their hands at any given time. Unfortunately, the rules don’t allow for note-taking during the game, so this becomes a very difficult memory game for the Jol-Nar player. Since this game is not a memory game, and human memory is not that sound, this rule negates a big piece of the Jol-Nar’s power. By allowing the Jol-Nar player to keep notes on these cards, this power and house ability advantage can be retained, and this house rule barely effects the length of the game.