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Trajan

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  1. 8 out of 10

    A strong game by Stefen Feld, who is excellent at making games that I really love for about 5-10 plays. The Mancala-like action mechanic is very interesting and mind blowing for a few plays. My second favorite Feld game, after Year of the Dragon (note: I havent yet played Die Burgen, which is rated highly). I recommend Trajan, but I dont know that I would still be interested in it after playing it 10 times.

  2. 8 out of 10

    The mancala action selection is mind boggling. It is incredibly frustrating, because rarely can you do the action you really want to do and planning ahead is tough. It's also really fun!

  3. 9.97 out of 10

    The good: 1. If i had to choose, this game does “but i NEED to do EVERYTHING now!” better than any other game. 2. One of best variable setups of all time. And board changes every round like a Luciani game. 3. Along with Tzolkins wheels and Amerigo cube tower, the best action selection system of all time. The bad: 1. The time track in this game may be the most fiddly mechanism in any game i own. Im not sure we have had a game of this yet where we didnt forget to advance time at least once. 2. I kinda wish ALL the areas were interconnected instead of half of them. Maybe this is for the best though. Felds push-pull meets the “kid in a candy store” setup variability of Luciani and Tascini?! Yes please! Without the rondel, this would have been a fine game that would be getting replaced and outmoded by recent games like Gugong. Instead, in one of his greatest design decisions of all time, feld throws in the colored dishes and transforms this into a timeless classic that still holds up today. With that rondel, im not sure when they are gonna be able beat thIs one and make a better “playground” game; or “five minigames smashed together” game.

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Set in ancient Rome, Trajan is a development game in which players try to increase their influence and power in various areas of Roman life such as political influence, trading, military dominion and other important parts of Roman culture.

The central mechanism of the game uses a system similar to that in Mancala or pit-and-pebbles games. In Trajan, a player has six possible actions: building, trading, taking tiles from the forum, using the military, influencing the Senate, and placing Trajan tiles on his tableau.

At the start of the game, each player has two differently colored pieces in each of the six sections (bowls) of his tableau. On a turn, the player picks up all the pieces in one bowl and distributes them one-by-one in bowls in a clockwise order. Wherever the final piece is placed, the player takes the action associated with that bowl; in addition, if the colored pieces in that bowl match the colors shown on a Trajan tile next to the bowl (with tiles being placed at the start of the game and through later actions), then the player takes the additional action shown on that tile.

What are you trying to do with these actions? Acquire victory points (VPs) in whatever ways are available to you – and since this is a Feld design, you try to avoid being punished, too. At the Forum you try to anticipate the demands of the public so that you can supply them what they want and not suffer a penalty. In the Senate you acquire influence which translates into votes on VP-related laws, ideally snagging a law that fits your long-term plans. With the military, you take control of regions in Europe, earning more points for those regions far from Rome.

All game components are language neutral, and the playing time is 30 minutes per player.

Ages

12+
Players

2 Players, 3 Players, 4 Players
Play Time

60m – 120m
Designer

Stefan Feld
Mechanics

Mancala, Rondel, Area Movement, Card Drafting, Hand Management, Set Collection
Theme

Political, Ancient
Publisher

Ammonit Spiele, DiceTree Games, FoxMind, Gigamic, Gigante Jogos, HUCH!, Hutter Trade GmbH + Co KG, Passport Game Studios, Quined Games, Asterion Press, Maldito Games, Renegade Game Studios
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