Your first look at the Firefly board game - Firefly&Serenity

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August 16 2013

Your first look at the Firefly board game. Nerd Approved played the game at GenCon and posted a set of photos of the board and various game components.

b!X | Firefly&Serenity | 18:19 CET | 11 comments total | tags: firefly, board game, gencon, gale force nine

It has little plastic Firefly tokens and Alliance play money? Okay, I'll buy it.

Craig Oxbrow | August 16, 19:04 CET

I could not be more happy that this is a thing that is actually real.

Anyway, it's available (in hardcover?) for preorder from Amazon.

ceo | August 16, 19:05 CET

Does anyone know how many players it needs ? This is seriously important info. Hopefully 2+ and not 3 or 4..

[ edited by a little pez witch on 2013-08-16 20:19 ]

a little pez witch | August 16, 20:18 CET

There's dinosaurs! Want!

snj | August 16, 21:16 CET

pez witch, I have one of their other TV show based games here at my desk and it says 3-4 players.

IrrationaliTV | August 16, 21:24 CET

This really does look awesome. I'll buy it just because it is beautiful. I'm afraid it is too expensive to give as gifts to all my friends (they'll need to buy their own). But maybe I'll set up some playing parties (we could have Firefly DVDs playing in the background, distracting us while we try to figure out the rules)!

embers | August 16, 21:34 CET

pez witch, 1-4 players. You can see the information on the back cover in the producer's e-shop: http://www.flamesofwar.com/gf9online_store.aspx?CategoryID=13463

kernel32cz | August 17, 08:25 CET

Thank you so much for that, kernel32cz ! :D

a little pez witch | August 17, 18:28 CET

So I guess people at Gen Con really wanted this game.

b!X | August 17, 21:19 CET

According to the comments on that video, the game sold out in 9 minutes, despite the big stack of them that they had. :-)

Matt_Fabb | August 18, 20:35 CET

For those of us who want to know if it's more than just pretty (because it's certainly very pretty!), see this thread. The first post is a review by someone who has played it four times, and what follows is discussion and speculation on game play including some comments by others who've played it.

The consensus seems to be that it's very thematic, but there's some parts of the game mechanic (e.g. 'event cards') that some people think sacrifice game play and strategy for theme.

Also, elsewhere on boardgamegeek, Galeforce 9 (the game designers) have said

We can also confirm the expansions are absolutely in the plan

Bluey | August 19, 00:16 CET

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