Though I think it is a wonderful game and still enjoy playing it after 20 years, one of my big criticisms of the game is that once an Empire gets ahead, it generally stays ahead.
Helping it to achieve this is the fact that the leading Empire can generally buy Civilization Cards to offset the damage from the Calamity Cards.
With Civilization: The Expansion Project, with the official rules when playing more than 12 players, east and west trade card packs are played, each with their own Calamity Cards.
I prefer playing with one large set of trade cards, and rather than have 2 of each calamity, created some new Calamity Cards.
To make things harder, these cannot be modified (by buying Civilization Advance Cards) and are played after Minor Calamities. (To offset some of this damage we also play with Bounty Cards.)
Some have damage targeted to the players with the larger Empires.
In ExpansionRulebook_2.07 it states �24.3 No player may be the primary victim of more than two major and one minor calamities in the same turn. �.�
To increase the difficulty of larger Empires we play the following (home) rules:
�24.3A No player maybe the victim of more than four major calamities and two minor calamites.
24.31A Any player may be the primary victim of 2 minor calamities. If the player receives more than two minor calamities in the same turn their minor calamities are shuffled together, and two are drawn at random. The remaining minor calamities received by that player are disregarded and are returned to the appropriate stack of trade cards.
24.32A A player who has 0 � 3 cities may not be the primary victim of more than two major calamities and two minor calamities.
24.33A A player who has 4 � 7 cities may not be the primary victim of more than three major calamities and two minor calamities.
24.34A A player who has 8-9 cities may not be the primary victim of more than four major calamities and two minor calamities.�
24.35A If the player has more major calamities than their quota, the major calamities are shuffled together, and the number of major calamity cards as outlined above are drawn at random. The remaining major calamities received by that player are disregarded and are returned to the appropriate stack of trade cards.
Any comments, criticisms or suggestions are more then welcome.
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