We've been running into a problem in our games.

By around turn 5, it's common for it to be obvious that 1 or 2 players have absolutely no chance of winning. Nothing they do can change that.

HOWEVER, they can determine which of the 2-3 contenders ends up winning.

And this is our problem. What then? There's no splitting a win and players can't be eliminated. What is the hopeless player(s) supposed to do then in that situation? See which contender gives them the better monetary offer for kingmaking them?

Anyone else run into or deal with this problem?

If you realize you have absolutely no way to win, then the challenge becomes to try and stop anyone else from winning either, so you all lose as the game ends after turn 7.

What if it's obvious that's not going to happen either?

Bespeckled said:

Then you've screwed up horribly. But even then, you can try to play the other Gods off against each other enough to try and make the game last another turn and give yourself a fighting chance of winning. Other than that, as you say, they can help decide who else wins

This has happened in our games sometimes and it's pretty darn annoying.

What I've done and decided to do is that I'll try to score as many VPs as possible. I'll just play my game even though I'm losing and stay out of the politics.

In our last game Slaanesh had no chance of winning (and in the game before that I was in a similar situation as Slaanesh) but fortunately he decided to play his own game. He finished about 25 points behind the others but didn't take part in the last-turn politics.

As to other final-turn decisions that may cost one of the players the game, I would rather go against the person with the most victory points - or the biggest VP prospects during the last turn.