Fate of the Fellowship
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Pros
- This game absolutely nails the thematics!
- Created a new board gaming core memory!
- Parent context: Man i am 0-3 in this gam3 Reply: Same, 0-2. They do a great job of always making you feel under pressure and I have only played the first game and standard scenarios.
- Highly recommend Fate of the Fellowship to anyone. Long, tense, and worth every second.
- That dice tower is massive, i remember seeing one at a con and the whole table had to scoot chairs to make room for it. Kinda love that it's completely over-the-top though, a big evil tower just sitting there judging your rolls.
Cons
- Parent context: Fellowship breaks with that predictability because of the top and bottom cards. That and the addition of dice result in it not feeling like a pandemic game to me. Don't get me wrong, it's a great game and if you like LotR...
- My only gripe with the game is cape production. Count all the capes in the deck, and count the least capes needed on the map to make it to my doom. There is very little wiggle room for using capes for stealth travel. Now add legolas, and...
- I love it, Its so thematic and immersive. Love doing missions (quests) , killing orcs, playing as legendary characters and hiding from Nazguls. Only gripe I have , it's not that good in higher player count. I prefer to play it solo and a...
- Haven't played yet: Cascadia, Fate of the Fellowship - will play these during the holidays.
Sentiment
30 positive (83%) · 6 mixed (17%) · 0 negative (0%)
Trust + time weighted score: +82% · raw score 83%
What redditors said (10 of 36)
Parent context: Fellowship breaks with that predictability because of the top and bottom cards. That and the addition of dice result in it not feeling like a pandemic game to me. Don't get me wrong, it's a great game and if you like LotR it's incredibly thematic. As such, I would recommend it to anyone. But it would not come to mind as the best pandemic game because, to me, it's not really a pandemic game. Reply: [No reply text provided in C010, but the block contains the evaluation]
This game absolutely nails the thematics!
Created a new board gaming core memory!
Parent context: Man i am 0-3 in this gam3 Reply: Same, 0-2. They do a great job of always making you feel under pressure and I have only played the first game and standard scenarios.
Highly recommend Fate of the Fellowship to anyone. Long, tense, and worth every second.
That dice tower is massive, i remember seeing one at a con and the whole table had to scoot chairs to make room for it. Kinda love that it's completely over-the-top though, a big evil tower just sitting there judging your rolls.
The Barad-dûr dice tower from Fate of the Fellowship :)
Parent context: I’ve always wondered how different does it feel from pandemic. If we have played a lot of pandemic and legacy is this fresh enough or does it feel too similar and almost reskin? Reply: It is very different to Pandemic. I'm actually shocked at how much it feels like a simpler co-op version of War of the Ring. A couple of core mechanics return from Pandemic so it will be familiar. But there are tweaks to nearly every gameplay system, some big and some small. This felt less like OG Pandemic than any of the Legacies, to me at least.
Amazing game!!! After a 5 games that we lose, we archive to win with my girlfriend last week, i cant even imagine what its like in higher difficulty!
My only gripe with the game is cape production. Count all the capes in the deck, and count the least capes needed on the map to make it to my doom. There is very little wiggle room for using capes for stealth travel. Now add legolas, and the game becomes so much easier. Games with legolas are easy mode, games without are hard mode.
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