Sounds like an awesome August of solo games! Nice job on tracking your win rate, too. I haven’t paid a lot of attention to it in a lot of my games, but it’s always interesting to see what that looks like when you play upwards of 20 or 30 times.

That’s a lot of modules and possible setups, but I do love games that offer lots of variety. But not too much… I’ve seen a few where the possible combinations are upwards of 1,000. I just need a reasonable number to be happy. Ha ha!

Good luck with your plays in September, and thanks for sharing your highlights!

I received several Oniverse games as gifts early in the month, so I jumped right in with two of them for August.

First played was Nautilion. It comes with the base game and six different submarines (you only play with one). There are also five “expansions” (I would just call them “modules” since they all come with the base game). The game is quick and addictive. I did not plan on doing, but i ended up playing the base game and all expansions with each of the six submarines until I won with every possible setup. I played two practice games to get my legs, then the record keeping began. There are 36 possible setups and it took me 51 plays to accomplish all of them (70.5% win rate). The submarines are categorized in three levels of difficulty. For the A and B class I was 18-3 (85.7%); for the C class I was 18-22 (45%).

The next level challenge (for some future dates) one may play the 5 expansions in any set of combinations. This allows for 26 other possible setups ups. If I do this, I would just choose the most difficult C class submarine (I was 6-12 against it) and try it against all the setups.

Second, I played the base game Urbion in the Oniverse system. I played the base game 20 times. My record is 4-16 (20%). This game is also very simple and quick, but obviously much more difficult to win. Additionally, it has 7 expansions that can be played in any combination: this allows for 127 possible additional setups!

Finally, I did a solo play of the Pandemic-system The Lord of the Rings: Fate of the Fellowship. I lost the game, but am looking forward to more solo play on this one. I also played a 2-player and 3-player cooperative session. The win-loss record is 1-2 so far. But they were all very close/tight plays. If you like Pandemic and Pandemic-system games, you would probably like this one. If you don’t, this one is not going to convert you. It is definitely the most complex of all the Pandemic family of games.