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Bendelker
Pretty awesome game. There is something oddly soulless about it, but the decisions in the game are A+.
AndySzy
Very solid Euro that I wouldn't mind exploring some more of. Feels in the same weight as Marco Polo; I like the variety of the cards and how the dice drafting effects multiple things (how much you're paying, what income you're generating).
ajewo
Dice drafting game from the designers of Grand Austria Hotel and Lorenzo il Magnifico. Dice are drafted from a shared pool. Players place their dice in holders of their individual color. The dice are zhen placed in different rows where cards are laid out. After all dice have been place, players take the cards of that row in order of their pips value. + Artwork (colorful, contrast, unusual comic style) + Components (dice holder are quite innovative) + Excellent tight intertwined game mechanics (pilgrimage, recruiting, tracks, voyages, set-collection, player order) that provide different paths to victory + Multi-used dice and cards: dice's pip value (initiative/cost for recruiting) and color (income from the colored tracks) is used for different game mechanics + Balanced dice: low and high numbered dice are good and color of the dice is important too + Recruiting character cards from 3 different rows. The dice pip value determines the initiative and cost used to pick a card (race / competition for cards). Some characters cost money, some cost swords. Each row offer an consolation when a player picks no card + Colored tracks give different boni (and strategies) and have different values each game. The income depends on the picked colored dice and these four tracks (engine building). + Interesting player order mechanism: players collect crown tokens from castles tiles and some characters (with crown tiles) + Special character cards grant special abilities at set-up + Some cards have medals for further set collection + Voyages card are bought at the end of a round and give special end game scoring conditions + Pilgrimage (point to point movement) to collect bonus tiles on the map + Reminder sections under the player board for the different abilities triggered in each phase + Nice game box insert + Plays quicker than other similar games + Scales very well with all player count (simple neutral player + gaining 2nd place for tracks is relative and depends on the 1st player) # Rather abstract theme # Little engine building (colored tracks) # All cards show up in every game # Player interaction due to dice placement which determines the order of which player can take cards # Low luck factor: rolled dice are shared by all players, luck of the drawn cards # Deterministic: everything is open information # Point salad - Good iconography - but a lot of icons need to be learnt - Abstract character cards (un-thematic) Thoughts: The theme does not appeal to me but I do not know why. I do not like the engine building that much which is a mix between collecting character cards and climbing the four colored tracks. Similar games: * Lorenzo il Magnifico (worker placement whose power is based on dice and more focus on engine building) * Grand Austria Hotel (dice drafting, set collection, best with two players) * Troyes (dice worker placement with multi-used dice)