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Race to the New Found Land
60m - 90m
2 - 4 Players
Ages 10+
Tile Placement games feature placing a piece to score VPs, with the amount often based on adjacent pieces or pieces in the same group/cluster, and keying off non-spatial properties like color, "feature completion", cluster size etc.
Tile Placement
This mechanism requires players to select individual actions from a set of actions available to all players. Players generally select actions one-at-a-time and in turn order. There is usually(*) a limit on the number of times a single action may be taken. Actions are commonly selected by the placement of game pieces or tokens on the selected actions. Each player usually has a limited number of pieces with which to participate in the process.
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There's one thing I like about Race to the New Found Land. Deciding whether to score VPs early to advance on the point track and get more choice for the associated bonus scoring cards and roles or to expand your wharf and acquire new ships to improve your earning potential. Unluckily, this decision is watered down with two players which was the number I played it with. What remains is a fairly run-of-the-mill majority contest. While Hans im Glück is one of my favorite publishers and I like most of their games, RTTNFL fails to give me any reasons to choose it above the many alternatives in the middleweight Euro category. I would play it again with four players if asked as it works and promises tension at this count. But the whole package is mediocrity defined.
curtc
False advertising. The game is not actually a race. Although I guess if RFTG can claim to be a race, then why not this one. Game was surprisingly fast. Not necessarily in wall clock time, but in amount of stuff you do. Only 4 rounds, and not that much to do each round. Definitely not a sandbox to explore. If you squint, you might call this a worker placement, where the workers are your boats. But boats are tiles with multiple stats on them, and the stats dictate how useful the boat will be if/when assigned to the various spots where you can assign them. Only 4 spots, which are the 4 actions, and you only start with 1 boat. Interesting aspect: there are various checkpoints on the score track where you get a bonus for reaching it. But the checkpoints [i]move[/i] backwards whenever anyone hits them. Interesting catch up mechanism.
familywontplay
A nice relaxing game where you assign ships to sail to fulfill different goals, then they return to your port to set sail next round for pickups, delivery, or exploration. I thought the potentially strong catch up mechanism on the score track, very unique. Each player board (country) had a very strong ability, which I thought was well balanced as long as a player adjusted their game to take full advantage of it. At the same time, diversifying the ships (each has a combination of 3 different values) is important so that when some areas of the board fill up or you are blocked from something in a previous round, you have the ability to adjust. Going 1st is extremely important in this game. Currently the rank is 3,713, in 2018 with only 212 ratings so far. Since the game is new this year I expect this rank to better. The game isn't outstanding but certainly good enough to improve this rank.