Still recovering from driving 1,000 miles in the last 2 days but that drive took me past Tom’s place last night on board game night so I got the chance to play Sol with Tom and a bunch of folks, including Shieldwolf. I liked Sol and found it interesting. It’s a Euro-style game about mining a star about to explode for energy, with engine building in the form of building infrastructure (energy nodes and what-not) but the interesting part is that the player’s mothership, where the player initiates worker actions, orbits around the star, and so a player is routinely moving away from his or her infrastructure and into range of other player’s infrastructure. There’s a system of bonuses for players whose infrastructure is used by others and the whole thing both an elegant and complex strategic system. It might be just a bit too many moving parts for my taste but I need to play it a few more times.