Taking place in the timeline before my monopolistic encounter, I did get another play of High Fronter 4 All completed.
This time, it was the Werner’s Star scenario from the High Frontier 4 All Module 1: Terawatt & Futures expansion. It’s really lucky that I picked up Modules 1 and 2 when I bought HF4A; without these addons, I think the game wouldn’t be interesting enough.
In the Werner’s Star scenario, the goal is to obtain a GW Thruster (gigawatt thruster), promote it to the purple side; in this case, a GW Thruster is promoted to a TW Thruster (terrawatt thruster). And then, once you have your TW Thruster, you complete the “future” for it; i.e. each card has a different special circumstance that you can achieve. In my case, it was having a Bernal (space station colony, essentially) anchored above adjacent sites (generic term for asteroids, planets, planetoids, comets, etc) that would provide 8+ “hydration” (a stat in the game that I’m sure is scientific, but it sure sounds like a strange yet effective resource quantification for extraterrestrial resource production)
I won, but again, likely with a considerable * (asterisk) on the whole thing. Looking back, I made many mistakes; some of which were me being indecisive; others me misunderstanding the rules until it was too late, and yet more was me making things more complicated or convoluted than need be.
In the end, I’m going to consider it a massive success; because I did succeed, and I made it extra difficult along the way in doing so.
Next up: New Work Laptop … wait, what? Oh, yes. I have a laptop refresh that might occupy my gaming spare table for a week or so. But after that? Back to HF4A and, likely, Solo Altruism with M0, M1, and M2.
High Frontier 4 All is definitely going into my “top solo games” list. Honestly, it’s a bit refreshing in how un-euro it is.
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