Greater Than Games | Feather & Flame: Spirit Island Expansion | Board Game | Ages 14+ | 1-4 Players | 90-120 Minutes Playing Time

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And if that wasn't enough yet, there is a ton more content in this expansion. The list of other content for Spirit Island: Jagged Earth is: When using one of those four spirits, the players should evaluate if their characteristics match their playing style. These spirits need to be pushed to use their strengths to the maximum to achieve victory and players will need to plan their strategy accordingly.

There are two new scenarios, A Diversity of Spirits and Varied Terrains. Diversity of Spirits adds some limited communication elements for a thematic touch. Why should the air spirits and the water spirits speak the same language? This is not my favourite scenario to be honest but I can see how some people will enjoy the limited communication aspect. Varied Terrains which adds a unique effect to each terrain type. This is a pretty interesting scenario which I have only touched on in my plays but I had fun with it. Both of these scenarios, as with everything in this expansion, adds more replayabilty and more content for hardcore Spirit Island fans to dig into. There are also now the badland tokens. These increase the damage to the invaders & Dahan by 1. So this can help your island or just have you destroy all its inhabitants. Along with that, the game includes components to allow you to play with 6! people and has a way to play with split islands. a b c Zimmerman, Aaron (22 December 2017). "The best board games of 2017". Ars Technica . Retrieved 9 September 2020. If you only own Horizons and want to buy an expansion, it is highly recommended that you buy Spirit Island first to get access to components you wouldn't have otherwise, like the Island Boards, Invader Board, the base game Adversaries, and base game Scenarios. In their list of best fantasy board games in 2020, CNET named Spirit Island the best complex cooperative game of the year, and PC Gamer lists it in their best cooperative board games. [11] [12] In an article for The Atlantic, Luke Wilkie stated that Spirit Island is "one of the few flat-out anti-colonial games on the market". [13]

Spirit Island: Nature Incarnate

Overall, each new spirit is different and it will take some time to figure out how they can be used effectively. Feather & Flame – Aspect Cards Scotland is included in this expansion as an adversary, with a base difficulty of one. Whilst the adversary is just more of the good stuff that was included in the core game, it again adds more content and more replay value to the game.

Spirit Island: Jagged Earth was also a very big expansion in comparison to the Branch & Claw expansion. There were a few new mechanics, but this expansion mostly build upon the mechanics already present in the base game. This expansion focuses on a new mechanic called Incarna. Incarna is the physical manifestation of a spirit. This can be a tree or a figure moving throughout the island. These Incarna tokens act as a presence on the board and can also become empowered and give you more powerful actions. In Spirit Island, players take the role of different spirits of a distant island where magic still exists. These spirits of the land have awakened to protect the island from colonizing Invaders from European countries that threaten the population of the Island and the nature itself. Players role is then to cooperate together to push away the invaders from the shores of the island before the damage done to the land is irreparable. The spirits took me a good few plays to get to grips with and I am still not sure how to effectively run them but they are a lot of fun to play. I am always amazed at how different the spirits feel in each expansion and Feather and Flame is no exception. These spirits are a great addition if you are huge Spirit Island fan and will give you a lot of additional content to play. And The RestThe spirits in this box are probably the main draw for me. However, these are not for the faint hearted. Ranging from high complexity (x3) to very high (x1) complexity these spirits bring depth and complexity that will take some time to get grips with. The growth paths branch off in multiple directions with Finder of Paths Unseen and to a lesser extent Serpent Slumbering Beneath the Island. Heart of the Wildfire gives you fire tokens which, with certain powers trigger additional actions. Similar to Heart of the Wildfire, Downpour Drenches the World gives you access to water tokens. The use of these additional tokens is not new and was seen in Branch and Claw but I like how they have been incorporated and utilised in this expansion. The first scenario, “Varied Terrains” adds an extra rule to each terrain type. The special effect of the terrain takes place during a different invader phase and it is always in favour of the invaders. The effects range from adding a new explorer or a city after the explore or the build phase, to build twice per turn or to always cascade the blight. Considering the increased building, it is recommended not to play this scenario with the Kingdom of England as this adversary is notably good at building. a b c d Zimmerman, Aaron (24 March 2018). "Spirit Island review: Finally, an anti-colonialist board game". Ars Technica . Retrieved 9 September 2020. New Spirit Island spinoff board game will be an entryway to cooperative settler destruction". Dicebreaker. 2022-07-22 . Retrieved 2022-09-02. Locus - Serpent Slumbering Beneath the Island: Focus the Island’s Spirits on the place of your stirring slumber