Arkwright

hahalbert82star7,0

Essen'14 Joc econòmic de fabricació i venta de mercaderies al mercat. Les regles de oferta-demanda son molt interesants funcionen a la perfecció. El joc té poques accions disponibles, i pot existir alguna estrategia que sigui més potent que altres (vendre totes les accions al inici i fer baixar el preu al mínim mitjançant l'exportació per comprar el màxim d'accions possibles cap al final de la partida). A més, hi han losetes de "poder" especial molt bones i que provoquen que el joc giri al voltant d'elles (qui la deixa disponible i quan).

EvEvanstar1,6

In our first play, setup and rules started at 7:30 and ended at 11. For that much rules burden, this game needed to be a lot more compelling. Overall the game is fine. The general idea is you build and operate factories to produce goods, which you sell in one of two places, generating you money or money + stock value. You start the game with a certain amount of stock in yourself, and the key to the game is getting enough money to buy more of your own stock. It's extremely chartsy, which is a little dull, but ultimately fine. The game itself with 4 players went from around 11 til a little after 4am. Over the course of the game, there are decisions to be made, but I didn't feel like I had any difficult decisions. Mostly what you are doing is minimizing your costs and improving your output through upgrade actions, and then just lining up your sell actions fairly solitary and fairly robotically. The method by which goods are produced is a very fiddly process, which isn't great. Component wise the game is overall fine, although the upgrade tiles seem needlessly small and hard to read. The rulebook is also written very confusingly. Many times we had to check boardgamegeek or read the examples in the rulebook to have any idea about what was supposed to be happening. Despite all the time we spent going over the rules, I wound up taking a massive penalty in the last round because of a edge case scenario where you have to pay money if literally all the workers are gone when factories depreciated. Despite all the time we had put into the rules, we didn't read this one somehow, so I had no idea that this was going to happen or else I would have avoided the situation. It removed any hope I had of doing ok, which stung since I didn't have control of how many guys were in the worker pool. All this taken into consideration, I have to compare this to other longer games that I do like, and each of those games manages to capture some magic or excitement that this game just lacks. The player interaction here is low, there are decisions to be made, but none are particularly difficult or interesting, and of course there's no pretense at theme happening here, which isn't necessary but can sometimes carry a game like this. Overall, the game is fine and competent, just not worth the time investment to learn and play. ☆ Art, Iconography and components functional ☆ Clever or interesting mechanisms ★ Reasonably low downtime between turns with mildly AP players ☆ Multiple plays stay interesting ★ Low or mitigatable luck elements ★☆☆☆☆ Raw enjoyment

setropostar8,0

ECDE #14