Francis Drake

GaGarfieldstar8.0

#40

EvEvanstar4.6

This game uses a system we've seen before in games like Glen More where there is a row of tiles and you can jump ahead as far as you like but going too fast or too far and you miss out on the resources you need to get the job done, too slow and you'll lose a lot of points to ties, since turn order is really important in this game. It creates a sense of urgency to getting your stuff first that I really enjoy. Then the second part of the game takes place on the map as you try to beat out the other players to being first in all the spots you can assign to. One issue is that this is not a game where you build an engine. The game takes place over three rounds, and before each round you reset, so one of the two things you can do early to help yourself in later rounds is grab up turn order. (The other is the collection of resource sets, which does build across multiple turns, but it's a small point contribution overall). For re-playability the game allows you to shuffle the location of the different action tiles. This changes things up nicely between each of the 3 rounds, but ultimately isn't a big help in terms of changing things up game-to-game.