Wayfarers of the South Tigris - Straight Up Solo with John LaRuffa
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 6 ธ.ค. 2022
- Let’s take a look at the solo mode for this new Trilogy from Shem!
If you need help understanding the flow of the solo bot, this video should help you with that as well!
A timely video for me! I literally just got my copy yesterday. Thanks for the video, John!
This is a very unique and good automa. The game just seems average to me though. Hopefully other solo designers will use this type of automa in future games, it's a neat idea. Thanks for the video John!
This game just arrived at my house yesterday. I'm looking forward to playing it!
With just six cards and 4 AI boards, there's a lot of replayability in such a simple solo system. While I believe that Shem had a major hand in creating the solo mode (correct me if I'm wrong), Sam Macdonald designed this game as well. Just thought I'd point it out.
Sounds interesting. I really like they provided different bots that concentrate on different tactics for victory. This is rarely done that I have seen. This will require you to master the game at different levels instead of a single strategy. Does each of the 4 bots have a different level of difficulty? This does sound like alot of information to front load. For me, I think it would be great to play solo (aka beat your own score) to get a full understanding of the rules and actions. Than I would tackle the AI. At the moment, I have been cutting back on the meaty game but will add to my list to obtain in the future. Need to get my shelf of unplayed complete this winter prior to purchasing additional games. Thanks for the explanation and sample play really help get an idea on gameplay. Unfortunately the next few months life will be very busy and will get very little board game time. Take care!
how much table space would a solo play of this take up do you think?
I'm on the fence on this one. How do you compare the setup time to those of Paladins and Viscounts? I love those game, but I find them a little long to set up. This one seems more straitforward.
I am surprised you don't find bot cheaty when he does not have to observe any requirements on the journal track or when he grabs expensive cards like nothing (or when he does a chain of actions, collecting tiles and cards in one turn). And surprised you would have find an issue in bot having to pay for stuff to make him more human-like (like bots do in previous series from Garphill). But as long as you're happy with this one, good for you 🙏. I just can't get past bots frequent grabbing of cards and stuff and the fact he just bang on scores flat VPs for each - it's just too cheaty and unfair to me, and especially if I have to work so hard to get the right tags, meet the tag requirements and just create a solid scoring tableau. Have you managed to get more than 1 planet out of the space cards? Before I house-ruled the markets, I had only seen 1(!) planet per game and very rarely, either sun or moon... never both. That to me is an issue of the design, lack of market refresh tools really makes the game swingy for me. You can be lucky and you get space cards scoring some tags you have to collect or you can be unlucky to get space cards scoring what bot is doing (tiles, influence on guilds etc.).