by mistereaston
Hi everyone,For everyone still roaming this forum: I am curious to know how fast you like / would advise others to open packets with hidden components in Risk Legacy.
The choices in the poll below are limited, but hopefully there's a choice that fits your preference well enough. If not, feel free to elaborate as much as you like in the discussion that will hopefully follow.
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Myself, I have played one campaign in which we opened everything and am currenlty playing a second campaign with a different group. Originally (before playing for the first time) my stance was to try and spread out the opening of content for surprises and changing games during the entire campaign. After opening everything once, for my second board I shifted my opinion to: try to open everything as fast as possible. The reason contains hints to what the packets might contain, so I'll put it between spoiler tags, just to be sure.
[o]I would now advise to open everything as soon as possible, because in my first campaign I would have wished that some components were available sooner or components that had already been used up would still be available. The reasons being that this would give greater variety to the earlier games and that the contents of later packets made my opinion change on how to best use some of the content that had been used before.
I know, this all sound very vague, but take scars for example. At the beginning of the campaign you receive a limited amount of certain scars, that is never replenished. Those scars were gone very quickly and in future games, when new scars were used, it wasn't much of a surprise which scars everybody was holding and locations developed on the board where I would have liked to be able to put one of the scars that was no longer available.
After having seen all of the content once, I think that there is enough potetial in the game for variety after everyting is opened and it will even give more variety in earlier games, because so many options are available and not all options can be taken at once. With the scars for example: if all scars were available in an early stage, there would be greater variety in which scars get placed when and scars could also be used much more strategically, for example by waiting with placing them until a nice location on the board has presented itself.[/o]
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