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Sailing Toward Osiris

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  1. 6 out of 10

    In diesem Spiel befinden wir uns im alten Ägypten und versuchen dort Monumente zu erschaffen, indem wir unsere Arbeiter losschicken um Ressourcen zu sammeln, die für den Bau benötigt werden. Beginnend beim Startspieler, darf jeder reihum aus einem Stoffbeutel je 2 zufällige Arbeiter ziehen, die sofort hinter seinem Sichtschirm wandern. Nachdem jeder Spieler seine Arbeiter hat, verläuft das Spiel weiter im Uhrzeigersinn und jeder Spieler erhält in seinem Zug eine Aktion, wie zum Beispiel einen Arbeiter auf ein Feld setzen und die abgebildeten Ressourcen zu erhalten. Er könnte aber auch Ressourcen mit dem Markt tauschen, wenn noch Felder dafür frei sind oder auch Ressourcen ausgeben um Monumente vorzubereiten oder diese entsprechend auf dem Spielplan zu stellen, was wiederum Ressourcenfelder abdeckt, die künftig nicht mehr zur Verfügung stehen. Weiter kann man nach Aktionskarten ausspielen, die von schwachen bis mächtigen Aktionen alles bieten. Je nachdem welche Karte man erhält gibt einem das eben den nötigen Bonus oder eben nicht. Das Spiel spielt sich sehr schnell und die Downtime bei 4 Spielern ist auch nicht sonderlich hoch. Ich hatte zum Start das Pech 2 Völkerkarten (Spezialfähigkeiten) zu erhalten, die beide sehr schwach waren. Man entscheidet sich für eine und meine hat das ganze Spiel über nicht getriggert. Die eines anderen Spielers dagegen mehrmals die Runde. Zusätzlich hatte ich gefühlt einen sehr schweren Auftrag, der mir 2 mal im Spiel blockiert wurde und ich ihn nur durch aufwendige Umbaumaßnahmen wieder erfüllen konnte, was mich viele Aktionen kostete. Das Spiel hat mir schon Spaß gemacht, aber die krassen Unterschiede der Aktionskarten haben das Spielerlebnis doch deutlich geschwächt. Es spielt sich ansonsten doch sehr gut, aber ich muss es kein weiteres mal spielen.

  2. 7.5 out of 10

    Beautiful looking game with some real meat to the decision making process. Plays quickly and does not outstay its welcome on the table. I think this game deserves a higher rating than it currently enjoys.

  3. 2 out of 10

    We had 2 hours for a four player game! No one suffered from AP and we were all experienced players. It's too much rinse and repeat. And why the heck does the market get blocked if someone used it? Never gain. [c] Theme: :star::star::star::nostar::nostar: [size=7]Good, building monuments[/size] Gameplay: :star::star::nostar::nostar::nostar: [size=7]Too much rinse and repeat[/size] Interaction: :star::star::nostar::nostar::nostar: [size=7]Who builds where, that's it[/size] Artwork: :star::star::star::nostar::nostar: [size=7]Ok[/size] Luck: :star::star::star::star::nostar: [size=7]A lot of random drawing[/size] Strategy: :star::star::star::nostar::nostar: [size=7]Build as much as you can[/size] Components: :star::star::star::nostar::nostar: [size=7]Nice, but nothing very special[/size] Play duration: :star::nostar::nostar::nostar::nostar: [size=7]Far too long[/size] Easy to teach: :star::star::nostar::nostar::nostar: [size=7]Too much possibilities[/size] Rules quality: [size=7]Not read[/size] Setup time: :star::star::star::nostar::nostar: [size=7]Normal[/size] No downtime: :star::star::star::nostar::nostar: [size=7]Plays quite fast[/size] Replay value: :star::nostar::nostar::nostar::nostar: [size=7]It will always be the same[/size] [/c]

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Pharaoh is dead and his funerary barge sails slowly down the Nile toward his tomb where his spirit will stand before the judgement of Osiris.

Pharaoh had no offspring so tradition holds that the governors of the land be tasked with building monuments to Pharaoh’s glory so that Osiris will favor his spirit in the afterlife. Accordingly, Pharaoh’s successor will be the governor who builds the greatest tribute to the late king.

Resources and laborers are limited, the gods are capricious, and time is short; the memorials must be finished before the barge reaches the temple of Osiris at Men-nefer.

Sailing Toward Osiris is a euro-style game with worker placement, resources management, project completion, and no direct conflict. Down-time is kept to a minimum via a single action, round-and-round turn structure that emphasizes timing decisions and subtle strategies.

The game takes place over four "seasons" with the movement of Pharaoh’s barge tracking the game’s progress. Each season, after players draw workers from a communal bag, play begins with each player taking a series of one-action turns from a list of 10 possible actions:

1. Play a worker to harvest resources
2. Play a worker to a city for cards
3. Play a worker to a caravan as leader or follower
4. Hire an extra worker
5. Trade at the market
6. Plan a monument
7. Build a monument
8. Play a city card
9. Play a boon card
10. Withdraw from further actions.

Players are working to build sphinxes, obelisks, and pylons to the glory of the late Pharaoh and to earn extra glory by building the monuments on certain river segments and in certain configurations. However, as more monuments are built, resource harvesting becomes less productive and viable locations for future monuments become scarce. By the last season, players will have to be creative to find enough resources or available land on which to build.

The player who has amassed the most glory points by the end of the game will be crowned the new Pharaoh.

Sailing Toward Osiris was inspired by the real events surrounding the death of Rameses XI at the end of Egypt’s 20th Dynasty and the ascension of Smendes, a powerful governor in Lower Egypt.

Ages

14+
Players

2 Players, 3 Players, 4 Players, 5 Players
Play Time

60m – 90m
Designer

W. David MacKenzie
Mechanics

Pattern Building, Worker Placement
Theme

Negotiation, Ancient
Publisher

Crazy Pawn Games, Daily Magic Games, PixieGames, Schwerkraft-Verlag
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