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| https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/138161/firefly-game |
Based on the utterly brilliant Firefly TV series, this game captures the essence of the source material perfectly.
My wife and I have included this excellent game in our list of 10 and currently we're honours even with this one.
In this game we're playing "first to $15,000 to buy our way out of trouble" as the victory condition but had to abandon play for the evening with both of us around the $11,000 mark. To be resumed tomorrow night...
The 'Verse
Border space out by the Rim is soon overrun by Reavers making travel here extremely hazardous.
Reavers also plague the Red Sun system making the much needed work here a risk too.
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| https://www.pinterest.com/pin/696580267335023405/ "If they take the ship, they'll rape us to death, eat our flesh and sew our skins into their clothing. And if we're very, very lucky, they'll do it in that order." - Zoe Washburne |
My wife chose to play Nandi, a companion who is so charming that she can hire crew for free! A very powerful skill in the game, especially one where we're trying to gain cash and not spend it.
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| https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0579529/mediaviewer/rm970225664/ |
Nandi spent much of the game so far with a high churn of crew as she hires loads, and seems to lose them with alarming speed!
Corbin
I chose Corbin (boss of the Carrion House scrapper facility). He's a tech specialist and can buy ship engines and upgrades at half price. This too is a powerful skill as often an upgraded ship can be the difference between a win and a loss.
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| https://firefly.fandom.com/wiki/Corbin?file=Ep06.Scrapper.jpg |
Corbin spent much of the game flying solo or with a skeleton crew, but has a good mix of equipment which allowed him to succeed at quite a few jobs with minimal effort and outlay. He concentrated on the high risk, high reward jobs from Niska and got lucky in pulling them off.
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He even headed out to the Blue Sun system on the Rim to seek work from the smuggler-baron Lord Harrow.
The stand-out moment of the game so far was Nandi's high risk gambit to win the game. Solid with Badger, carrying two Warrants for her arrest, she manages to fill her hold with contraband. All she needs to do now is haul it from Osiris to Persephone and sell it to Badger.
Two route options are available:
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| https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0303461/mediaviewer/rm2616559873/ |
1. Take the longer more dangerous route around Alliance space, risking attack by Reavers; or2. Take the shorter route through Alliance space and hope the authorities don't catch her.
Nandi took the shorter route through Alliance space...and...her luck ran out! An Alliance cruiser caught her, confiscating the contraband and forcing her to pay the fines for the Warrants! Nooooo!!!
A $7000 game-winning payday with Badger turned into a $2000 loss.
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| https://tenor.com/view/firefly-life-of-crime-retire-nathan-fillion-mal-reynolds-gif-4420466 |
We'll hopefully be finishing this off tomorrow night.
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Oh, and if you've never watched Firefly, do yourself a favour and watch it. Its an utter joy.
EDIT: So we finished the game tonight and Corbin pulled off the win with a final job on St Albans pulling in $4000. It was a close game all the way through and as ever with Firefly, tremendous fun!
As for Nandi?
EDIT: So we finished the game tonight and Corbin pulled off the win with a final job on St Albans pulling in $4000. It was a close game all the way through and as ever with Firefly, tremendous fun!
As for Nandi?
