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P’achakuna (Kickstarter Edition)

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  1. Kickstarted 18 Nov 2020. 39 CHF plus 28 CHF shipping to Australia. Original due date June 2021. 19 July 2021 update delay for more retooling, so not on ships yet.

  2. 5 out of 10

    Great table presence but ultimately a fiddly abstract, whose tactical play has a small decision space and leans too much on luck of the draw. (This could easily be mitigated with house rules- draw 3, etc). I also feel like there was a missed opportunity with the resource return, maybe allowing a solid tile placement for blocking or something. A KS pass for me.

  3. 7.75 out of 10

    "Overall, I think P'achakuna is quite fun! I think it's likely clear from me mentioning it routinely, but the real selling point for me in this game is how cool the tiles and the path-building mechanic is. You literally cannot make a path for yourself without blocking your opponent, which means that games may be no-holds-barred slugfests to get anywhere, or they might be white-knuckle sprints to the finish, depending on whether or not your opponent interacts with tiles you're using frequently. It's possible that they won't! Either way can happen, and that's pretty cool, to me. I do wish there were some way to mitigate early luck with the Demands, but, if someone can capitalize on them I suppose that's just how the game goes, sometimes. This may make learning games tough if you're teaching a new player who isn't familiar with the flow of play, so I'd probably recommend putting this in your category of games you let two new players learn (it's a very useful category). Beyond that, though, I think the game really makes a case for itself in terms of table presence. It's bright, colorful, and has a really nice look to it. And it comes with little llama meeples, which, delightful. I think if you're a big fan of spatial reasoning games, pick-up-and-deliver games, or games that focus on path-building, then P'achakuna might be something that interests you, but either way, I've had a lot of fun with it!" For my full thoughts, check out https://www.whatsericplaying.com/2020/11/02/pachakuna

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P’achakuna takes you on a journey in the heart of the Andes together with your most loyal friend — your llama. The game includes both black and white llamas, with you controlling one color and your opponent the other. White llamas move only through the green valleys, while black llamas scale the barren mountains. Whatever the color, however, you want to visit mountain villages to deliver the dye that they desire, ideally collecting dye for yourself along the way.

In P’achakuna, each player starts with one llama of their color in the center of the board in the white village, with a white dye loaded on its back. The board is composed of hexagonal tiles that are either half valley/half mountain, two-thirds valley/one-third mountain, or vice versa. The tiles are extremely thick so that you can grab the mountain section of the tile and pluck it from the board. Six villages sit on the perimeter of the game board, each corresponding to one of the primary or secondary colors. Each village has a random demand tile in it that shows two colors, one in high demand and one in low demand; neither of these colors can match the color of the village.

On a turn, you may first rotate one unoccupied tile; by paying two dye resources from your personal supply, you can rotate a second tile. You then must move each of your llamas at least one space, but you can move them further if you desire and if the terrain allows them to do this. You rotate tiles to create long paths of valley or mountain so that ideally your llamas can travel far with each move.

If you move a llama into a village, you trade the dye on that llama. If the dye you carry isn’t in demand in that village, you simply trade that dye for the dye from the village, say, green for yellow. If the dye is in demand, then you add 1-2 dye of that delivered color to your personal supply (depending on whether the demand is low or high), then you place a dye matching the color of that village on your llama. If you collect a color in your personal supply and don’t have it in your scoring track, you can place it in your scoring track. No matter what, you replace the demand tile in that village, making sure the color of that village isn’t on the demand tile.

During a turn in a village, you can hand in four dye from your personal supply to acquire a new llama that is then placed in that village with a dye from that village on its back. Each llama moves on your turn, and you can have at most three llamas.

As soon as you have one dye of each of the seven colors on your scoring track, you win.

To hold the demand tiles, the game includes a handmade fabric bag from Bolivia and Peru, which supports the local community.

Ages

8+
Players

2 Players
Play Time

30m – 60m
Designer

Moreno Vogel, Stefan Kraft
Mechanics

Hexagon Grid, Map Deformation, Network and Route Building, Modular Board, Pick-up and Deliver, Point to Point Movement, Tile Placement
Theme

Animals, Maze, Puzzle
Publisher

Treecer
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