Solar Funk

Remember those bad years when every other board game was a deck-builder? Solar Titans reminds me of that. It’s not that Solar Titans is bad. Just that it’s perfunctory. This is a deck-builder the same way everything back then was a deck-builder. Its identity as a deck-builder makes zero sense. Its deck-builder systems run contrary to its fiction. It even commits the capital sin of deck-builders by letting each hand’s composition matter so much that everything else becomes secondary. But let’s back up. Solar Titans. What’s it about, eh? That’s a solar titan there. Yep. On paper, Solar Titans ought to be my jam. My site is called Space-Biff!, for heaven’s sake, named for gigantic spaceships lasering and rocketing and otherwise exposing one another’s pressurized interiors to the hard vacuum beyond their eggshell hulls. So when Solar Titans claims to be about building and then ripping apart spaceships, I’m down to wrassle in the mud. When the game opens, there’s nothing amiss. Players…