Tapestry

EvEvanstar7.2

This is a euro-civ game with a very unique and intuitive action selection process. The game has four tracks. On your turn you pay the resource cost indicated at the top of the bracket to advance your marker to the next step in the track, then resolve the effect of the space. Each track relates to a different strategy through the game. Deciding where to focus and what order to push which track makes for a very compelling puzzle. Each track also has three firsties bonuses at set points of the tracks which must be taken into consideration when you see your opponents pushing up the same tracks you have been working on. Of course as you bump higher on the tracks the costs grow but so do the rewards. In particular, the last step of the tracks tend to have an ability that lend themselves more to a mid-game build-up effect than an end of the game hoorah. If you run out of resources to spend, or you decide you want to pass, you can take a reset action, with causes your player board tracks to generate points and resources for you depending on how many production buildings your track actions removed. You get five resets per game, with the first being your very first turn of the game and your last being your very last turn of the game, so realistically, everything about your ability to generate the resources you need to succeed come from only three production moments. The game gives you the ability to pick up an odd resource here or there, but often also temps you away from it with the option to instead get a die roll worth of victory points that could land between 4 and 7. I found it's not uncommon to be sitting late game and realizing you spent one too many of a specific resource to be able to hit that last track step you desperately want. What this all amounts to is an intense experience where you always feel like next time you'd be able to do a better job. There are other elements that feed into this feeling as well such as doing a bad job planning out your city board for the multi-space buildings earned from firsties bonuses. I happen to love games that give me the feeling of failure in this way. It teases me with the promise that with slightly more focused or more efficient play, great things will happen for me. The game is not without it's problems. There's a decent amount of flip-luck involved with the game. The effects of the cards and the tiles you encounter from the flip luck piles have a pretty wide range of usefulness. The special pre-painted building minis the game comes with are a little hard to read in terms of what size their base is for purpose of covering the player mat. Each player also has an asymmetric power, and those seem to vary in terms of quality, or at least some are substantially more intuitive to play. Overall though, I'm having a fantastic time with the game. There's not a lot to be done about the flip-luck, but it's a random element I enjoy tactically reacting to, even if at times card luck could mean a substantial point differential.

GaGarfieldstar8.0

#2.1 It looks complicated, but it's quite easy to learn/teach/play. It plays quite fast. Unfortunately the theme is very abstract. [c] Theme: :star::star::nostar::nostar::nostar: <!-- size 7]Very little --> Gameplay: :star::star::star::star::star: <!-- size 7]A lot of different options, but not too much --> Interaction: :star::star::star::nostar::nostar: <!-- size 7]Race on the tracks, fighting on the island --> Artwork: :star::star::star::nostar::nostar: <!-- size 7]ok, nothing special --> Luck: :star::nostar::nostar::nostar::nostar: <!-- size 7]Only the space tiles? --> Strategy: :star::star::star::star::nostar: <!-- size 7]A lot of strategies possible --> Components: :star::star::star::star::star: <!-- size 7]Very good --> Play duration: :star::star::star::nostar::nostar: <!-- size 7]Ok for such a game --> Easy to teach: :star::star::star::nostar::nostar: <!-- size 7]Quite easy --> Rules quality: <!-- size 7]not read --> Setup time: :star::star::nostar::nostar::nostar: <!-- size 7]Could take some time --> No downtime: :star::star::star::nostar::nostar: <!-- size 7]Plays quite fast --> Replay value: :star::star::star::star::star: <!-- size 7]A lot of strategies, different player powers --> [/c]

Jan Solostar8.0

Excelente juego de civilizaciones en un tiempo contenido. Personalmente no siento en absoluto el desarrollo de mi civilización pero disfruto mucho con el puzzle que supone la gestión de acciones. Básicamente consta de 4 tracks por los que ir subiendo casillas. Cada una de ellas es una acción. JAN SOLO RULES: -Coloca puestos rivales en los 8 hexágonos más alejados. -Al ganar un monumento tapa otro del mismo nivel o inferior que no podrás obtener -No obtienes recursos al inicio de era. -A efectos de resolver cartas te puedes considerar rival (ej. Copia una carta de tu rival = una tuya) Impro-Reseña⇒ https://youtu.be/ZfpcBL7nBEs