A small thing I really enjoy is letting us know if its going in your collection or not, and also what it replaces. I wish you would do that more for games you are NOT going to keep. Solid job guys and I always love the Miami Dice reviews since Sam is the man. I loved the dig on Zee too ;)
I think the best way to conceptualizer the thematic element of the worker placement is that it is more of a timeline... You are trying to set sail soon and first, if that is the objective then you can't shop around, you can only move forward.
Wow, looks like a great game, but darn it, my game group likes simple games. I think it would be easy but I know they would not want to play it. I need to find another group that would play it. Thanks for the great review Tom and Sam.
The worker placement seems like it comes straight out of Egizia. The game looks good but since both games couple that mechanism with "manage your resources to buy points in different ways" I'm not sure that this would be a worthwhile addition. For anyone that has played Egizia and this, do the two feel different or is this just more of the same?
FD doesn't scale with less players well at all, it is to open with 3 and feels like a completely different game with 5. It doesn't feel like a euro to me, the decisions you make are more reactions than actually strategy. As for replay value, after 3 games, it gets boring pretty quickly
