No,
seriously, if you haven’t played this board game, you need to. It is Firefly
The Game and it’s loads of fun.
What is it
like, you ask? Well, I can best describe it as a combination of Monopoly,
Settlers of Catan and Dungeons & Dragons. Incidentally, if you haven’t
played those either, you’re missing out. Except maybe Monopoly, that can be hit
or miss.
Anyway,
even if you aren’t a fan of Firefly (which, if you’re not, it probably means
you haven’t watched the show, a problem you should go fix right now), the game
is great – although you miss many of the references. It has a simple concept –
you are the captain of a Firefly class starship. You need to find a crew, find
a job and keep flying.
Throughout
the game, you fly around between planets doing jobs, hiring crew members and
upgrading your ship while working towards certain goals. You get to choose the
jobs from various contacts and the work is either legal or illegal, moral or
immoral, with some paying better and some being riskier (with the potential of
getting issued arrest warrants or even having crew members killed). The jobs
can vary from carting cargo and passengers between planets to robbing banks.
As for the
goals to win the game, they change! That’s the best part about the game – there
are different story modes to play. There’s even a solo mode (which I had so
much fun with I played for 5 hours straight one day). The different game
stories change the strategies needed for playing and make for a fresh game each
time. I figure you can even write your own game modes for it (I’m planning a
fantastic co-operative story).
The only
downside is that it does take a while to set up – but it’s worth it. It’s also
one of those games where the rules seem really complicated when they’re being
explained, but they begin to make sense really fast as you’re playing.
So, yes.
Firefly. Play it.
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