Scythe Killer!? Expeditions Board Game Review.
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- Опубліковано 15 вер 2024
- Scythe Killer!? Expeditions Board Game Review on Rolling with the Beard
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The sequel to Scythe sends players on a new adventure into Siberia, where a massive meteorite crashed near the Tunguska River, awakening ancient corruption. An expedition led by Dr. Tarkovsky ventures into the taiga to learn about the meteorite and its impact on the land. Itching for adventure, heroes from the war privately fund their own expeditions to Siberia, hoping to find artifacts, overcome challenges, and ultimately achieve glory. Expeditions has completely different mechanisms than Scythe, though the goal was to capture some of the same feelings that Scythe evokes, with a slightly darker, more supernatural theme.
Expeditions is a competitive, card-driven, engine-building game of exploration. Play cards to gain power, guile, and unique worker abilities; move your mech to mysterious locations and gain cards found among the tiles; use workers, items, meteorites, and quests to enhance your mech; and use power and guile to vanquish corruption.
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I really like the game. It’s a race and efficiency puzzle that gets better with repeated plays. My advice to new players is don’t tuck cards too soon. You want to have a nice selection of cards to work with and once you get enough for a Star, then start tucking the cards and race towards the end.
Thank you for the comment! Excellent advice. Also, make sure you get plenty of cards. I've made that mistake my first couple plays.
If I haven’t played Scythe, what are the chances I will play this game?
If you haven't played Scythe by now I would say you make bizarre life choices so you will probably never play this game? I mean, what HAVE you been playing!? Lol
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@@craigandrews7544 i loved your comment! Thank you!
If I do like Scythe, what are the chances I will like this game?
Lol well....good chance you will like it because its an awesome game...nothing to do with Scythe.
My regular game group (non-family) ranks Scythe near the top (for some, it’s their favorite, though it is far from being mine-I think it’s good). We’ve played Scythe many many times as well as the entire campaign. So when one of my buddies picked this up for his birthday last October, expectations by some were very high.
After three plays, he sold it.
No one in the group thought it was bad, but no one really wanted to keep playing, especially the owner.
For me personally, I didn’t think the mechanics matched the theme at all. There’s supposed to be this ‘dark threat’, but no one ever felt threatened. You spend resources to get rid of corruption. And the exploration is really not particularly exciting either. No one ever felt immersed in this world. I think we were expecting a tense game and the tension factor was a 2 out of 10….making, in my opinion, the theme seem completely misleading. In Scythe, there’s this feeling of engine building during a Cold War tension-while I have other qualms about Scythe, at least the mechanics match the theme.
One player did say he liked this a little better than Scythe after the first game, but later retracted his statement.
I stop short of saying this game has nothing to do with Scythe. Aside from artwork, there’s mechs l, movement, and somewhat limited action selection. But don’t expect a true sequel. If this is a sequel, it feels like the second movie of a trilogy, setting up the third for a big Kapow! But we found this one largely forgettable.
For me, Scythe blows *this* out of the water.
I give Expeditions 5.5/10.
Whereas Scythe and Tapestry both get an 8/10 from me.
@@mrp4242 Thank you for the comment! Hey, Let's not drag Tapestry into this! LOL Tapestry and Viticulture are in a league of their own! 2 of the best games IMHO. I really enjoy the engine building with the cards in Expeditions and how it can be different each time you play it. Yes, the "exploration" grows stale quickly but I wasn't expecting too much exploration. I could definitely see how someone could be bummed if they were wanting a theme rich exploration game. I wanted a pretty, nicely produced, card drafting engine builder and I feel thats what I got so I'm very happy with Expeditions. It has been awhile since I've played Scythe....I think you may have encouraged me to get a copy to the table again!
If I don't like Scythe, what are the chances I will like this game?
I would say pretty good! It plays and feels completely different. Thank you for the comment 😊