Seafall, part 2

Seafall is a Legacy game that we started nearly 6 years ago, and I first wrote about a little over 5.5 years ago.  I had intended at that time to write an immediate followup with pictures of the game, but life got in the way.  But finally, I'm making time to put these photos up, so here we go!

You get to name your character, ship, and province in the prologue game.  I drew the "Princess of the Realm" for my character's title, which naturally led me to name my character "Buttercup" and ship "Revenge", from the province of Florin.

We also have "Florence Nightengale" of "Umbar" and the good ship "Providence"...

... Nicolas of Bagatelle, with the ships Windswept and Arrow (after the prologue game, you get a second, smaller ship)...

...and lastly Gen Urso of Sacolt.  

Even in the very early stages of the game, there is a lot to keep track of while you're learning.  Each player gets a box in which you keep your player-specific pieces between games, which has been a staple of other Legacy games we've played.

Over time, you discover (and name) islands, and recruit (and name) hirelings and customize them as you see fit (natch Buttercup had her Westley).

Over time, you travel further and further away from the mainland, discovering more islands and more secrets within the game story.

Along the way, you'll have some epically bad rolls -- since these pips aren't counted as successes on Gont, these 4 pips counted as 0!

Until, eventually, you reach the end. 

We finished in 12 games, largely because we decided at some point to work together to solve the mysteries.  There are *so many* hireable people, and we would tend to end games in fairly few turns, so without cooperation, we would have played a lot of very similar games without making progress toward the endgame.

There are several different ways you can play the game -- focusing on exploration, building, military, or mercantile pursuits.  In our experience, they were not equally balanced, and the Treasure Hunter hireling seemed terribly broken.  As a result, Gen Urso had the highest point total at the end.

Buttercup's final hand.

Nicolas's final hand.

The final hand for Florence Nightengale, our military specialist.

A sampling of our hirelings.

Again, it's a beautiful looking game with a neat ongoing story and provides many, many hours of gameplay.  We've considered buying another copy and doing it again.  We've tried a new Legacy game every year and this might be our collective favorite.  As we've found with other Legacy games, you will almost certainly misunderstand how some part of the rules are supposed to work at various parts of the game.  It's okay; decide on your house rules and move on.

After Seafall, we tried out Risk Legacy.