Is there a way to randomize races at the beginning of the game, thus giving a possibility of me going into it without knowing who I am fighting (meaning I could have multiples of the same faction).

Chasm wrote:Is there a way to randomize races at the beginning of the game, thus giving a possibility of me going into it without knowing who I am fighting (meaning I could have multiples of the same faction).

I've been meaning to add a "random (hidden)" option to the map settings screen for a while now. Right now, we don't have one.

But, given our galactic lore, I don't think the default behavior would be to let you have multiple versions of the same faction in that situation -- even in "random" mode, which races you got would still be a "deck draw", rather than a "dice roll".

Allow Duplicate Factions could be a linked map option. It wouldn't be "canon," but then neither is manually selecting duplicate factions.