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Beyond the Sun: Leaders of the New Dawn

Name: Beyond the Sun: Leaders of the New Dawn
Brand: Rio Grande Games
SKU: RIO629 RGG629
Price: 37.95 CAD
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Designer	Dennis K. Chan Joseph Summa
Publisher	Rio Grande Games
Players	1-4
Playtime	45-90 mins
Suggested Age	14 and up
Expansion For	Beyond the Sun (Second Printing)
Additional Info	378291/beyond-sun-leaders-new-dawn http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/378291/beyond-sun-leaders-new-dawn/forums/63

Following the discovery of hyperspace travel in the year 2246, a renewed sense of unity and purpose ripples across the whole solar system. The factions in power need to position themselves quickly to seize this golden opportunity, and strong leadership is necessary to get ahead in the race to colonize the galaxy.

Thanks to the Omniweb Engine, a data-mining network that covers the entire population of the solar system, each faction can search with pinpoint precision for candidates with the exact skills and traits they need, both domestically and militarily. Can your faction find and groom leaders with the perfect combination of internal ingenuity and external prowess to rise above the others?

—description from the publisher

Beyond the Sun: Leaders of the New Dawn expands core game with a new solo mode, asymmetric factions and leaders, and new viable strategies around the planetary area control board.

Important but also light on content

This expansion has two main things going for it, a new system where you snake draft two extra powers at the beginning of the game, similar to 7 Wonders: Leaders or Terraforming Mars: Prelude; as well as a full solo mode. Other than that there's two new factions that are interesting to play (one is about making and combining ships, one is about predicting game outcomes) and a small handful of new techs and planets.

Overall, on the balance, there's not a LOT of things in the box, but most importantly there's replacement balance-tweaking cards for some of the base-game tech. That alone is worth picking up this expansion for, IMHO, but I can definitely see why some people feel the expansion is a bit light relative to its price.

Great game!

A great shedding game where you play poker hands and power cards.

Nightfall Lite but Not Nightfall 2.0

If you liked Nightfall, but thought individual creature combat was too tedious? You'll probably like this.

If you liked Nightfall but thought the game was too slow to ramp up, or too long to finish/hand out all wounds, you'll like this.

If you thought Nightfall's "Private Archive" claims ended to overpower the game based on luck of the draw, you'll like Unchained's 3x3 market grid.
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As far as deck builders go, I like Unchained. It will take awhile to really know the card power combos. The symbols look overwhelming at first, but are kind of intuitive once you're used to how the cards work. Combat is total offense vs total defense and result is one fatigue (wound). So no MTG-ish "creature 1 attacks player B and creature 2 takes 3 wounds against player C." It does speed up and simplify the game a lot. The 3x3 card market is brilliant. You can get cards you want and/or clear out cards you don't want your opponents to get. Much more variety of cards to cycle through than 8+2 archives = 10 cards to choose from per game.

Solid 4/5 all around. I'd give 5/5 if there was a happy medium in combat between Nightfall and Unchained. Not as super simplified as Unchained, but not like Nightfall's individual cards combat. Maybe a power on some cards "stays in play after combat" so there's a larger chance of different strategies than "I punch you, you punch me, repeat"

Funbrick Series - Viking See-Saw (Import)

I never got the game

Darkest Dungeon

I ordered this 2 weeks ago and still did not even receive it before it asks me to review this.

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