Comments on: The Crew Review https://thethoughtfulgamer.com/2020/05/23/the-crew-review/ Board Game Reviews, Analysis, and Strategy Wed, 21 Jun 2023 02:44:30 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.1 By: CombatMist https://thethoughtfulgamer.com/2020/05/23/the-crew-review/#comment-610 Wed, 21 Jun 2023 02:44:30 +0000 http://thethoughtfulgamer.com/?p=2742#comment-610 I’ve played through about mission 30. It definitely gets harder but will take many many sessions to get through. We do a few rounds at once every few weeks. It’s like having 50 games in one as the scenarios can be very different.

The draw at 30 can get lucky and 1 shot a mission but rarly 2 in a row. Then the next will take 3 times. There is a grand total to keep track of how many attempts you made on the 50 missions. I’d argue if you did 50 missions in 75-100 tries your doing it right.

It’s fun but just as tense and frustrating. You can complete the object before finishing all tricks but not often. The player with the #4 trump is the commander and acts as player 1 to pick objectives and play first. That combined with communication action you have enough information to win. I often get annoyed with players who just decide to rarly communicate so we play wrong and lose. Which is why we only play a few rounds until we get frustrated and put it down for a few weeks.

I’m generally not a fan in cooperate games of the arbitrary rule of no sharing what’s in your hand. I get why. It allows for double agents and to not allow 1 player to run the game but rarly is a thematic reason given. Same for the crew there is no given reason why you can’t communicate openly. Even military has hand signals to communicate basic things without being able to communicate word for word meaning.

I dought I would after doing all 50 missions do it again. I’d consider it a 1 and done. Not sure on reply value but 50 is alot. It’s worth trying as a cooperative game.

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