It's a tie between the Naalu Collective and the Clan of Saar for me.

The collective with advanced fighters and their Race specific technology gives them the ability to control all movement throughout the galaxy. Send at least one advanced fighter to as many systems as possible. Nobody wants to pay two command counters and possibly lose ships to attack a fighter that may or may not choose to run away before the battle begins. Also by controlling movement you can make deals with players allowing them safe passage (As long as they have a diplomat with them). Tell a player they can move through an empty system you control to get to their real enemy by giving you some trade good or something of the sort that way they can keep their precious command counters.

The Clan of Saar is just sick. They can do it all.

The last game i played with them i ended up taking rex and using it as the base for all of my operations. Used diplomacy on rex preventing attacks from any threat while sending cruisers with stasis and type IV drives to take any open planets. Also try to steal pds systems and space docks if you dont already have 3 from your opponents rather than build them yourself this is a great strategy. attack a players planet with pds just for the sake of ripping the pds systems off and carrying them around with ur fleet. helps prevent attacks from destroyers. Then give them the planet back dont waste time trying to protect it. in fact dont protect any of your planets. Let them change hands you're the only one that gets paid when you take them back.

I love playing as the Yin and Mentak, both due to a combination of theme and playstyle.

I don't like the Saar at all...

Saar is easily my favorite. They're the race I've played the most with and I've gotten a fair number of victories while using them. Whenever I get them now, I can usually expect to be pincer attacked from both my neighbors. Mentak is also a lot of fun.

I'm interested in Muaat, though I've yet to get to play them. It's mainly because of their back story. I've got a thing for underdogs, which is another reason I like Saar so much.

I will go with the flow and be one of those players whose profile picture match their favorite race. My alias is also because of the race. So gues once...

Mentak it is!

My group does not play as much as I would like, so I have never ever played the Xcha, but I would really like to play them some time.

Cheers

When I first began playing this game the Jol Nar were a favourite of mine. Then I got used to the game and realized most tech wasn't as important as I thought as far as actually winning the game =P

I love Hacan, most everybody we play with does. I rarely draw them personally, but they're almost always present in games we play, even though we always draw races randomly.

I've also had fun with Naalu and Sardok N'orr, though I think I've only played each once. As far as a lasting favourite goes, I'm not sure I really have one. I think all of the races are great in their own way, and none of them are really that broken (with the possible exception of Yssaril, but they don't come up that much.)

I enjoy the yssaril because I enjoy the action cards. But I never get to play them as they are too powerful.

After that Winnu and the Naalu would probably be my favorites.

Bill

I like Sardakk N'orr the most, partly cause it feels good to have War Suns on high alert each having 3 free hits, partly cause it's deeply gratifying to PDS turtle as Sardakk N'orr (as unthematic as that may be) and partly cause they're a pretty simple race to play. A close second would be the Barony of Letnev, the richness of their home planet opens up a lot of options for them earlier on.