My definitive review of Fallen Land 2nd edition (w/ expansion, from the solo perspective)

About Fallen Land: A Post Apocalyptic Board Game – 2nd Edition, from BoardGameGeek:

Can you survive the aftermath of a nuclear and biological apocalypse? You are the leader of a faction of survivors competing against others for primacy. Assemble and equip your party, then set out to explore the wastes, claim resources, and actualize your agenda. Build and manage your town to protect your citizens and resources. Make and break treaties to navigate your way through the minefield of bribery, betrayal, and hubris of the other players. Fallen Land is set in the ruinous aftermath of post-apocalyptic America and is a thematic board game for 1-6 players. Featuring sandbox-style game play, it combines the elements of a strategy board game with card building and role playing. Driven by macabre stories of a world gone mad, players must adapt to the ever-changing variables: the cards, stories, interactions, and other threats. The second edition contains 757 cards compared to 540 in the first edition. The map now includes Canada and Mexico. It also contains expansions there were previously released separately - Fallen Land: A Journey into Darkness and Fallen Land: Outriders Trading Post. -description from Kickstarter campaign page