Farsight
A battlefield for veterans and rookies alike
Designer: Jamie Jolly | Artist: Brian Coughlan, Sam Denmark, Volkan Kucukemre, Laslo Ludrovan, Lewis Shaw
When one thinks of wargames, the words ‘suitable for new gamers’ and ‘plays within an hour’ are not the first that come to mind. But with Farsight that is exactly what you get. It maintains the core staples of the venerated genre and introduces some exciting twists of its own that make for a quick, approachable and strategic game that will neither scare off rookies nor bore veterans.
What immediately grabs with Farsight is its Battleship-like mechanic of hiding specialists – spies, saboteurs, seers and supply lines – somewhere on the map. Every specialist has an ability that can help the fighting units on the board, giving them an advantage over the opponent’s forces.The abilities are not all-powerful and have to be placed strategically on certain areas of the board (marked on players’ individual maps, so the opponent doesn’t know their location) to affect hostile units.