![]() Long Term ConsequencesĪt the end of each game, players have a chance to take back enmity tokens that are on the board. This seems to work in giving people a chance to make a decisive strike against another province without getting away scot free or forcing the other player to change her strategy too much. There are also some advisors that also help provinces that are at war with other provinces. Also, when you give enmity out to someone you are at war with, you return their enmity first, which means that you don’t have to use a precious resource when getting revenge. This is a way to boost your raid pool without having to spend the extra time and energy. ![]() When a province is at war with another province, they get two distinct bonuses: they add one raid die against their foe for each enmity they hold of that foe. This is the opportunity for the aggrieved party to get revenge before the end of the game. The enmity moves to the At War With section of the province board. Come winter, there’s something different with a province. With provinces, the immediate effect during the year is the same – the site can’t be raided and the garrison increases. ![]() The site may be available again but the penalty for raiding stays. Come winter, the enmity moves off the site but stays on the island. Goods on that island also cost one more gold to buy for each enmity a province has with it. It also makes it harder to raid from that island as each enmity increases the garrison of the island when against you by one (i.e., removes a die from your raid pool). When you raid an island, your enmity goes on the raided site to show that it can’t be raided again this year. The blue diamond symbols show the successes needed - and the enmity given - when raiding each province board site. With only 8 enmity per player, you can only raid one treasure room per game, perhaps two if you find a way to get enmity back. If you raid my treasure room, which stores my most valuable cards, it will cost you 5. If you raid my fields, it might cost you 2. Also, I wanted to make sure that trading raids (gaining a glory each time) wasn’t a viable, boring path to victory.Įventually, I (along with my developer JR Honeycutt) settled on making province sites cost a variable amount of enmity. ![]() If they increased their guns and got revenge, they would ensure that their attacker got brought low but neither would be likely to win. However, raiding another player eight times would effectively ruin their game. The game usually has about 12-15 turns so raiding eight times is a lot. This means that you can likely raid the islands all game without running out. When you raid the islands, you spend one enmity for your actions. By capping enmity to eight tokens, it meant that one person could only be so aggressive in one game. There are some ways to get them back but you don’t earn more. Each player has eight enmity tokens to spend on hateful actions per game. Here’s how it all got resolved for the final game. This was an issue and it took up months and months of my time. With raiding, your raids can disrupt my game so much that I was forced to focus on raiding as well. Even if we were both exploring, we’d only gain friction when we sought the same sites. If you were exploring and I was trading, we would rarely overlap. What happened in many early versions is that the player who was going the military route dictated the game to the other players. If I take something from you, you both lose it and I gain it. There were never issues with this in the game. But, instead of paying gold, you pay with enmity. When used against islands, raiding works like buying – you take something. Rather than go through the exact ins and outs of each action (hint: take the Soldiers Guild and Tax when you’ve got nothing to do other than sailing in a turn) I thought I’d take a look at raiding and where it fits in the SeaFall world. During game 1, raiding provinces is available, but raiding ships is not possible. Players may not raid each other during the prologue. It was the opposite of the merchant guild retail is for suckers, those with might just take what they want.Īn excerpt from the rulebook. I already know that enmity and how it works will be my main focus on message boards.įrom the start I wanted cannons firing, people stealing cargo, sinking ships, and burning down buildings. The end result works well but takes some effort to understand. Of all the elements of the game, getting the Soldiers Guild to work took by far the longest. What game about ships avoids these? Some days while designing, I wished fervently that Seafall didn’t have them. US orders over $100 are eligible for free shipping. Pre-orders of SeaFall from receive a full set of over 100 upgraded metal coins. In our SeaFall designer notes, Rob offers an early glimpse into the world of SeaFall - without spoilers, of course! SeaFall: A Legacy Game is available for pre-order at the store.
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