by Sliwa
Yes - it's hard. How many players are playing?We are playing with 2 players and for now we are using both Friday and Dog. Most of Your actions depends of which card is on the board, but we always try to explore fast and explore a lot ( mostly to get discovery tokens ).
Early increase of Your morale is also recomended - determination points are very helpful during the game ( fe. we are playing with Carpenter and Explorer: carpenter is using his points to build with 1 wood less and explorer is checking next island titles to choose the one with most discovery tokens. Explorer can also take discovery token for 3 point which is preety cool).
And most important thing - we are using 2 pawns per action as frequent as we can. To be honest - one pawn actions in our game is rare.I guess we are affraid of new adventures cards, they can really mess things up.
Maybe there is some better strategy for that scenario - I don't know. We are still learning about the game during playing and I see that with every new game we have new ideas to survive "better" ;-) I guess next step is to loose the dog and try to play only with Friday...