by DocCool
The "PI/AC worth 4pw" tech tile may also be nice for Der Schwarm (aka Ivits) in a game with round 1 federation scoring (or even without). The first federation then just requires colonizing a single planet (1o+2c) and upgrading it to RL (5o+8c). Connect the two with a space station and you have a nice and tight federation (which hopefully gives you the extra resources to expand further in the same round in order to not get stuck with low income in round 2).↧