Finally got the Wingspan Nesting Box. It fits all the current expansions and has room for the future. I swear it must clock in at like 20lbs.
Still a little annoyed that all the Wingspan stuff that holds sleeved cards won’t fit the mote or less widely available and “standard” sleeves (Wingspan cards are not the same size as many other games) but thats not really anything a little 3D printing can’t fix.
Sorry to say but I really don’t. Wingspan is one of the few games I’d rather sit out than join a table to play. It’s simply too prone to RNG for me to enjoy and I have been bored playing every time.
Not saying the game itself is bad but it is not for me nor I for it. Earth is similar but more enjoyable for me - but if I can I’d rather play something more complex.
Not knocking anyone who does enjoy this one or owns all of the content, mind you. Just wanted to add that, trivially, indeed not everyone enjoys everything that’s popular. :)
Of course! All opinions are valid. The RNG factor is definitely an issue. I play a good amount of Wingspan online too and maybe just because of the speed at which you can play games back to back, it becomes really apparent when you just don’t get smiled upon by the RNGesus
Yeah I feel like if you are able to take the randomness in stride better than I do then that is much less of an issue.
It doesn’t throw me nearly as much when a game is really short; like ten, fifteen minutes a round - because then who cares whether you got (un)lucky. You just make the best of it and next round things may be different.
But Wingspan is just long enough that I didn’t enjoy myself several times when I happened to get a bad inital draw and not much in the market to mitigate.
Utterly unconnected to Wingspan other than being another Stonemayer title, but I’m really looking forward to getting Expeditions and giving that a go :)
Yeah is that the scythe thing?
It’s a game in the Scythe setting, exactly. I got the Ironclad edition with metal mech minis and I’m looking forward to getting those in my fingers.
The gameplay is pretty different though. I think only the scoring is based on the achievement stars from Scythe but that’s about it :)
I’m in your team.
The production is awesome, art and all. I took the game with an extension (the first, European) because I like engine builder and, yeah, couldn’t be wrong, right?
But for an unknown reason, nothing happened on the table. A good review point the problem, IMHO: It lacks of drama.
The extension make things more interesting, IMHO. Maybe with all extension Wingspan become a “complete” game, dunno.
From what many people say the Oceania extension appears to ameliorate some of the weaker points.
But for me, I’m not going to force myself playing a game I didn’t have fun with again and again when I have literally so many other games I do enjoy playing.
It’s more than fine if people do enjoy it but I’m not among that crowd.
I think there can be a bit of drama, if you consider the drama of “can I build my engine fast enough”… or maybe just dont add up points in your head until the very end and hope for the best. I do think there’s a sort of vaguely chill vibe that maybe tamps down on some of the drama.
Definitely not too much of the sort of “let me bait my opponent into doing X which they think is a good move but it will actually benefit me” (well there’s some of that but not a ton).