More gaming with nearby friends.
In an attempt to be a bit less rubbish at the game, I picked up
Horizons of Spirit
Island and we tried it
this evening.
Of course some of the components are redundant if you have the
original game, but it's reasonably compact; I prefer these Blight
markers to the fiddly little plastic ones, though the invaders and
Dahan are a bit huge and the board can get clogged up at times. I was
quite surprised to see that it only runs up to three players; four is
a very standard sort of player count to aim for.
The main difference of course is the spirits, which to me at least
felt rather more effective: I didn't have as many options (for example
I had no way of moving Dahan about), but the ones I did have were more
likely to be things I could use.
In previous "full" games we've tended to lose to Blight; this time I
don't think we ever placed any, and instead managed a terror level 3
victory at the start of the third phase of land cards by destroying
the last city. It still wasn't easy for us, but we did it, and so it
was a bit less dispiriting; I feel we may now have more scope to try
different things and start actually improving.
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