チグリス・ユーフラテス

EvEvanstar0.9

My last, and only other play of this game was in 2011, so I didn't really remember anything about it. This time I absolutely hated the experience. It feet wild, chaotic and random, although end game scoring proved that it wasn't, as each of my three opponents had nine points with me sitting at 5. In this game, you are laying down tiles in a big grid. There are a few placement rules, but the focus is on the fact that when you put a tile down into a chain of tiles, a player who's marker is a part of that chain, with the matching color, gets a cube in that color. When two cities connect, or when a player puts a marker down in the same city as a matching opponent's marker, then players battle by spending randomly drawn tiles from behind their player screen of the color of the conflict, with the most tiles winning. In some cases you also count tiles around your marker, and in some you don't but I found the combat incredibly frustrating. My opponents might win a combat without spending any tiles behind their screen, and then I lost a combat where I had a +5 advantage to someone revealing 5 matching tiles. The winner of the combat gets some cube payout in the matching color as well. When someone loses a combat, parts of the city flay off, which means your positions can get messed up even through no participation of your own. I'm sad to say I hated every minute of this game. I know it's one of the big revered games out there, but I found it completely intolerable. ★ 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

MeMestremutenstar6.0

Rating: 3/5 Production value: 3/4 Is the game in my collection/Love to have?: 0/1