Naturelich Games

Time for another session of Knizia's Blue Moon. This time we decided to try two expansions we had not tried before. Shelak played The Terrah and Naturelich The Mimix.

The Mimix set contains female characters only (nice illustrations, by the way). The set builds on the players ability to combine sister-characters. As it is quite difficult to get the right combination of cards the deck contains supporting shamanic cards that enable interesting hand management options. For example, the player can draw three additional cards and discard any two from hand. Basically, this set seems to be all about getting the right cards at the right time.

The Terrah are very powerful characters that can start storms, earthquakes and many other natural disasters. The card combinations are very powerful and the cards have an advantage on the Earth fights. There is actually one character (forgot the name) that has an earth strength of 7 alone. You can imagine that several powerful combinations will originate from this. Some card combinations are particularly difficult to cope with for The Mimix.

In the game we played today, this was particularly true for a card that forces the opponent to retreat if they do not play a support or booster card. Unfortunately, the Mimix do not have all that many supports or boosters. But first things first. Due to some luck with my shamans and female warriors I was able to win the first Crystal. But similar to the last time we had played Blue Moon this was not enough. Shelak won the next two crystals pretty easily. It was relatively frustrating and he did a very good job in playing the strengths of the Terrah. Let me use the chance to suggest, that I might try the Terrah next time... ;)