Raiders of the North Sea

so base game is great, but the AI is either skewed with them starting with a TON of armor or too easy. There is no in between. The skew of giving them armor instead of attacking fortresses early and getting the early resource early seems like an easy fix. was lazy on the developers part. The AI will have enough gold, power and provisions and not take out fortresses. really silly as the game otherwise is beautiful and very relaxing to play. Out of all the ways to artificially make up for the AI weakness, iron would be my last pick. Finally, it would have been easy to add at least a few of the expansion features that makes the game better. For example, when you beat a spot by 10 points etc. you should get some extra points. would be nice to have some new cards as well. again, doesn’t require much development at all. however, like most online games, they NEVER get improved. they don’t realize that for such minimal development word of mouth is powerful in this industry. they just figure why spend good money after bad without realizing in this situation, like many other, is takes money to make. money. just poor business decision. Didn’t need to add full expansions. I wonder if the devs actually are even board gamers sometimes or work with the design of th3 games at ALL?

But it is nigh near impossible to give them feedback. The in-game feedback feature always fails with an error saying you have a problem with your internet connection. And that crashes everything in the game. So I leave it at the error message telling me about my bad net connection and go to my other online games and none of them have any problems accessing my “bad” net connection. Obviously the game does something wrong internally. I went to Renegade games and they had 3 ways to contact them. Twitter, Instagram, and email. I do not participate in either Instagram nor Twitter for personal reasons. That left email. Great. I select it and it brings up a list of email accounts. I select my icloud account and it wants my user is and apple id to login. I am reluctant, but figure I can reset my password once I leave my password, but they try to set up a new icloud account on my ipad which of course fails. I try again and it fails again. Fine. I then use my other email provider, giving them my id and password along with the email’s server name. They can’t connect that way either. Jeimeny Chricket! My final try was a link to the game designer. I thought maybe I could get my feedback to him. But the link was bogus! It went to a non-existent page or a broken link. Thanks Renegade Games! This lack of wanting feedback on their part knocked my review from a 5 to a 3! All this and I never even told you what my feedback about the game was going to be!

I played the board game version many times and I am a fan of the game. The app replicates the game perfectly and provides so much more. The art, which is a huge part of the theme, is beautifully rendered. Even more, the attention to detail adds to the thematic value as town buildings come to life when visited by a worker, your crew has a battle cry and the ships moving along the water simply put a smile on your face. The campaign mode is very enjoyable. Game flow is smooth as the app plays faster than the board version, which is great. If you enjoy the board game, you should have this app. Looking forward to seeing expansions!