Buildout strategy
Make each lot of components serve your next deployment and your endgame score.
Reserve a lane for fiber
A connected seven-token route scores 19 points. Leave room for it to extend across the map. Loops can create shortcuts, so a long chain with two distant ends is the better use of fiber.
Share footprints
Pick model cards whose footprints overlap on supporting stacks. The marked deployment site needs its own open hex. Rotate the pattern to reuse as much of your network as possible.
Draft for the stacks you need
Keep racks next to other racks so both datacenters score. Reserve fabs for taller chip stacks. Spread solar into separate groups of at least two when the supply gives you enough.
Watch the final quarter
A lab with two or fewer empty sites can trigger the final quarter. Deploy a reachable model before taking a card that needs several more turns.