If we'd played it in 2022, probably would have agreed!

How difficult is the solo mode?

@@craigandrews7544 I won’t lie, it’s a lot of maintenance, and you need the rulebook from the Crown player as you go through the steps (even the designer says it’s not meant to be memorised). But remember, this is a game that’s all about negotiation and the fact that the automa handles that is nothing short of miraculous. The designer of the solo mode does a playthrough on his KZfaq channel (Box of Delights) that convinced me to pull the trigger on getting the game.

Thanks for all the kind words! Makes it worthwhile.

Hope you get it to the table! Thanks for the kind words!

Tbf, when you describe it like that, it does make a lot of sense ahaha.

Glad you enjoyed it!

Best of luck! The first step.

Thank you so much, always amazing to hear! Glad to hear you're finding games you enjoy.

Hope you get to play soon!

It's on the 'big games to play' pile with Hegemony, speaking of which will you be reviewing that at any point ?

@@bearhustler It sounds like it would be right up our street, but I'm not sure how it is with two players. That would be the big decider if we get it.

I've played it once at 2 and it was actually enjoyable. It has specific player set up for 2 and 3. If you don't have 4 you drop The State and if you don't have 3 you drop the middle class. The 2p game is working class v capitalist class. I played working class which is the most straightforward. Of course 4p is the intended set up.

We played it at two twice - the first time was we basically ignored the "AI" just to use it as a practice game. The second time with the AI and it was hard work. I think the AI is very good, but it can do so much that to us it felt like you need a quite good understanding of the game as a whole to really get the most out of it. It would be rough to go from knowing nothing to only playing solo.

We've heard about it, and I would say we are reasonably interested but I don't think we can buy it in our region and even if we could it is pretty steep in price!

@@BoardOfItReviews I feel that as a Canadian!

I think despite doing the second scenario a handful of times, they were only voted in once. I think next time we will start with them.

We've played the second scenario a few times but only once were they voted in. It was interesting, but it's also something for quite experienced JC players. I think what you'll find is that many players will find JC complex enough without the firms, so then won't actively try to make it more complicated and play around with the firms.

@@BoardOfItReviews yeah that makes sense I have only played 1710 so far as I keep playing with new players. Do you think 1758 fixes some of the balancing issues. not getting any positions early when playing with 5 ? or not being able to control retirement

Shouldn't you be in Guyana, Jim?

@@BoardOfItReviews Just wasn't thirsty that day.