投稿者: bgm

This is a game in which the person who earns 2000credits as a merchant who crosses the galaxy wins. To do that, players deliver luggages, become the owner of a spaceport, send passengers, and pick up relics of the past.

Overview

A pick-and-delivery game that takes 90 to 120 minutes.

I have the 2nd edition and I can play the new rule called the standard rule, but I always play the classic rule.

The purpose is simple.

All you have to do is run around the universe, stop by the planet, buy the goods, and deliver them to the planet which wants them.

You buy goods on a planet …

And you take it to the planet which want it and sell it. And you purchase new goods there and take it to the next planet... you repeat that.

Game board↓

The place where the picture of the alien is drawn is planet.

The starting point is around the left of the center.

This board is well designed.

A three-way junction is easy to go from top to bottom, but difficult to return from bottom to top. It's not impossible to return, but it only succeeds with a low probability. Once you have the Merchant Ships equipment, it will be easier to pass.

There are branches like this everywhere, and there is a great deal of variation in the accessibility of one planet to another.

Moreover, the current economic center of this universe seems to be on the left side,
The former center, now obsolete, is hard to reach on the right side.
We can feel the history of the universe.

What's more, the randomly placed warp tiles make a big difference from game to game.

14 cultures are randomly placed on the game board. We don't know which culture lives until we arrive there. we are excited about the unknown universe.

When I first played with my husband, when the culture of the third planet was revealed, I realized that this was a really interesting game.
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The explanation in my head at that time is like this.

start

I went to a nearby planet. culture A lived there. There are items that A sells.
I bought it. The cultures that buy A's items are B, C, and D. I still didn't know where they lived.

I will buy it for the time being.

With it loaded on the ship, I headed to another planet nearby for the time being.

It was culture G that lived there. Sorry. However, culture A will buy the goods sold by culture G!

This was a chance. There was still one room available, so I planned to buy this item, go back the way I came, and sell it to culture A to earn a profit. Let's go back and forth.

Meanwhile, another player reached the red planet.
The culture that lived there was D!
G will buy D's items.
That means that the triangular trade route of selling D to G, selling the G I bought there to A, and then selling the A I bought to D … will be completed!

When that happened, various strategies came to my mind.

Should I buy a ship that can carry a lot? Should I buy a fast ship with a small load?

Should I make money on the triangular route for a while?
I can buy and sell two products at a time if I collect profits.
Should I change to a larger ship and carry 3 products at a time?
Or is it better to move frequently on a fast ship?

Or such an idea is also good.

D⇒G is difficult to pass and is inefficient, so why not go further and develop better sales channels?
It is also good to develop a new planet aiming for a deposit.

"Thank you for coming" "Thank you!"

A deposit is a currency that can only be used on the planet, given to the player who discovers the culture for the first time.
This deposit is very useful as we have very little money in the early stages.

What this feeling of freedom! Super fun!

The system for managing the number of items on the board is sophisticated.

For example, when Item A is sold, it will be placed in a black box and a tile will come out of the black box instead.

Inside the black box
Passenger tiles waiting to be transported from a specific planet to a specific planet
A demand tile that indicates that demand is rising on a particular planet and that culture will buy the item at a higher price.
And it contains the item tiles that have been sold so far.

Therefore, it is random when the products that have been sold will come back.
In other words, even if a route for efficient triangular trade is built and everyone rushes there,
Naturally, the number of goods has disappeared, and we have no choice but to develop other routes.
Gradually, more profitable demand tiles will accumulate on other planets, so the system is designed to encourage new development.

Due to the spaceport rule, you can usually only load and unload one item on the turn you arrive at the planet.
At the spaceport built by the player, you can buy and sell multiple times on the turn you arrive.

Since 10% of the transaction value is kicked back to the player who built the spaceport, if you build a port on the planet that is often used on the route, you will get unearned income.

The number of goods in stock on that planet, the ease of movement between planets, the efficiency of the route, the type of your ship, the equipment of the ship, whether to build a spaceport, etc …

While calculating such variables in our heads, we will select the route that will make the most money and develop our business.

And the player whose assets reach the target amount is the winner.

Final thoughts

Games with fluctuating market prices are fun because you can enjoy the feeling of running your own business.

Ultimately efficient triangular routes were discovered and everyone rushed there, but as inventory decreased and other planets' product requests increased, the value of that route gradually declined, and each one Players voluntarily choose to develop new sales channels.

It happens naturally even though the game rule isn't instructed to do so.

At that moment, you can feel as if each person is in control of the company.

It takes a long time to play, but I definitely want you to play this game. The rules are simple, and the difficulty is not so severe, so it is a masterpiece that even beginners can enjoy.

The hassle of setup is a feature of this game.
When cleaning up, if you put the First Contact Card, goods, and spaceport tiles for each culture in one bag, it will be easier to play next time.

All you have to do is place the cards, start the game, and take out the revealed culture bag.
Depending on the situation, the game may end without revealing about 2 cultures until the end, so it is recommended storage.

A game in which you roll big dice and fight monsters to survive to the end or reach 20 victory points.

Overview

Each player is in charge of one monster. Life is 10.

You win if you reduce the life of other monsters to zero or earn 20 victory points.

　

Roll the dice on your turn. You can roll up to 2 times in total while keeping dice you like.

The contents of the dice are attack, recovery, energy (money), victory points.

The attack is "one monster on the Tokyo board" vs. "many others".
There is one monster in Tokyo. Others are placed around.

The attacks of a monster in Tokyo hit everyone else.

Attacks of monsters other than Tokyo hit only a monster in Tokyo.

If other monsters have life to spare , you will be barrageed.

The monster in Tokyo at the beginning of his turn will receive 2 victory points.
Moreover, the attack hits everyone.

Tokyo looks good.

But the monster in Tokyo cannot recover.

Recovery dice are wasted. Of course, the player will re-roll, but it will be useless if it comes out with the third throw.

If you stay in Tokyo until your next turn, you will get 2 points, so if you can, you want to stay.

Whether you can stand another rotation depends on how much the other player's physical strength is being reduced.

If other players use the dice for recovery, the attacks will decrease.

And you cannot leave from Tokyo yourself.

You can only withdraw from Tokyo when someone attacks you.

The player in Tokyo decides whether or not to replace the attacking player.

If you can afford it, you can remain, and if your life is insufficient, you should change it.

What happens often

When I am relieved that I am finally back from Tokyo, the attack dice comes out...

I'm dragged in, attacked intensively, and lose.

No matter how many victory points you earn, if you lose.

You can't bring victory points to heaven.

Final thoughts

When you play a game with people you just met and behave kindly, collect victory points from the first turn. Such a person wins.

When you play games with people who can beat each other mercilessly, just go with the "Take care of life" strategy.

Well, after all, this game makes me laugh at the sadness that the attack dice unintentionally come out in the third throw and you are dragged into Tokyo.

The attacked side is equivalent to being given the right to live and kill.
It is the relationship of the first meeting that the attacked person will forgive it.
It is a familiar relationship to drag in without mercy.

Also, you can buy special cards with energy.

There are disposable cards that give you victory points, and cards that have a lasting effect.

It's fun to customize monsters with these cards, and you'll want to play it a couple of times in a row.

After all, depending on the dice, the luck factor is strong, but it is a fun game packed with various factors such as strategy and customization.

I don't play with my husband, and I don't play with elderly people who don't understand the world view.

However, I sometimes play this with people who have just started playing board games.

It's a good game that you can play right away and get excited.

I think it's a masterpiece that has been loved for a long time.

Each player has their own black bag. From this bag, every round, players draw worker tiles and place them on own board. By doing so, players will take action and earn points.

The re-play rate at my home is quite high.

Overview

There are 7 types of tiles.

Place the drawn tiles on your board.

The actions you can take are like these.

Moving your Merchant token on the map of the main board, you can build a house where your token is and pick up items along the way. They will be points.

The person with the most victory points wins in the 16th round.
The victory point is 1 point for 1 gold as it is.
The items you picked up are also points.

The easiest way to get the points is
VP by multiplying Number of houses and score of the Development Track.

The Development Track is at the bottom of the mainboard.
You can proceed with action, or proceed with the bonus of taking Scholar.

Not only the house you built, but also the number of citizen tokens is multiplied by the Development Track.
Citizen tokens are what can be obtained on a first-come, first-served basis in various places.

For example,
you can get it when you get 5 Knights earlier than anyone, or when you take the Development Track 3 steps earlier than anyone else.

16 rounds are pretty quick.
At the beginning, only 4 tiles can be drawn, so only 1 action can be done.
And even in the second half, when drawing tiles, your tiles sometimes are terrible, so you can not take any action, 16 rounds are not so long.

We mainly play this with two people.
In the first half, we organized the system in the bag,
In the second half, we build a house every round.
We often play like this.

You have to think about the composition of the tiles in the bag that suits your strategy.
It's like a deck building.

In the deck building of cards, used cards and acquired cards are placed in the discard pile, and there is a time lag before they can be used next time.

In "Orléans", used tiles and acquired tiles are immediately returned to the bag.
In other words, the tiles you used may come out immediately, or the Monks you have earned may not come out at all. Depending on your luck.
(Monk can be used in place of any of the other Character Tiles. )
That part feels different from the deck building of cards.

What happens often

The tiles to be drawn are suddenly biased.

I am having an accident! I can't do anything!

The dilemma you feel when increasing worker tiles.

When you take a worker tile, you will get a bonus too.

Farmer → Agricultural products (normal)
Craftman → You can put one Perpetual Motion Technology on your board (slightly strong)
Trader → Get a building card = Get an action that only you can use (strong)
Boatman → Money (weak!)
Knight → The number of tiles you can draw increases (strong)
Scholar → the Development Track advances (strong)
Monk → No bonus, so it's convenient but difficult to take Monk …

When you want any bonus, you don't need its worker.
When you want any worker, you want another bonus.

That dilemma often happens. This is annoying.

I can't draw the Monk that should be in the bag at all.

Monk which I put in a bag even though I didn't get a bonus doesn't come out at all.

However, it appears in the occasional "plague" (a devil event which workers are randomly removed from the bag). Murphy's law.

You Come Now!!Why!

Final thoughts

As I wrote, if you prioritize the bonuses that are strategically necessary, the number of unnecessary workers will increase in the bag. Then I couldn't draw the tiles as planned … It's painful but interesting.

It feels like impurities are mixed in the bag.

Should I try to use the impurities by increasing new actions, or

should I throw them away to get scoring chance by action in the Town Hall?

There are various ways to deal with them.

It is interesting to plan what to do in each games.

The usual strategy is to get one of the following buildings by Trader's action. The buildings that make Boatman and Scholar like Monk.

Take a lot of Scholar and raise the Development Track. Then get a school and turn Scholar into a Monk. This is strong after all.

I'm tired of this, so I'm looking for a new strategy.

I wanted to try a different pattern, so I traveled from the beginning and tried to collect high-scoring products, but I got a point difference of about 1.5 times lol

It's a game that makes you want to try various things.

It can be a hassle, but it's a good idea to have something like a screen that completely hides what actions other players are trying to do.

It's more interesting to ban "I'll change!"

The theme of this board game is a manuscript copy of the Bible dating from the Middle Ages.

The component is like this.

Overview

I will try to express what we are doing in this game with a manga.
It's actually a card game, so it's different.
See other people's blogs for the exact rules.

I feel like this in my brain.

This is brain review.

Put 1 to 4 balls of your own color in 5 boxes in order.

You can also get money instead of putting balls.

There is also an option to increase or decrease the score of the box.

The active player can keep secret where he put the ball or received the money.

The active player has one more thing to do.
That is to put the right to put balls and money later into the secret BOX.

When the phase where everyone puts in balls is over, the bidding phase begins.
We need money here.

Auction off the contents of the secret box that each has prepared earlier.

We will bid this off.

Once money is auctioned off, don't use money to bid off.
Instead, take out the balls you have put in and bid off by its number.

In the end, the person who put the most balls in each box gets the score of that box.

something like that.

Play example

Homie Played with Thai Taro, Maro, and Spe.

From the beginning, Thai Taro put a ball in red.
He was clearly aiming for red.
Everyone seemed to give red to Thai Taro.

On the other hand, Homie, who got a chance to put a ball in red,
"I might get a red box..."
secretly put a ball in red.
Homie put ball into yellow box on the surface.

Thai taro did not doubt that he could get red.
He also increased red dice score.

In the meantime, Homie secretly put balls into red.

Thai Taro noticed something unusual when he saw Homie putting balls in red.

As a result, Homie took the red majority. The yellow was also taken by Homie.

But the winner is Spe who succeeded in taking blue and green.
I have been lowered the yellow score.
It was an ideal situation, but I couldn't touch the dice score.

Final thoughts

There is a limit to the number of balls that can be put in the box.
If you try to take more than half to make sure you get one die, you won't get two dice. Because there are not enough cards.

It is required to have a bare-bones attack that does not cling to more than half to get more than 2 dice.

The balance around that is excellent.

The process of fighting for majority is fun.

There are parts that can be seen and parts that cannot be seen, and balls are taken out of the box at auction time.

It's a good game with short play time and easy to play.

The rules of the card line of "Andor for 2 people" are interesting. I bought this because it is the same game designer and it is a competitive game using the same system.

This was released first. I knew it after I bought this.

Overview

There are 3 rows of cards, and using the front card and moving it to the end is the same as "Andor for 2 people".

The theme is Silk Road. It is a story heading to Beijing with various human resources in the caravan.

The winner is the one who reaches 25 points.

Players earn victory points primarily with contract cards.

Acquire resources such as spices, llamas, and gold by the action of character cards, and pay the resources to get contract cards. Character card actions are also required to obtain contract cards.

Resources are on personal boards,

Some character cards have victory points.

The number on the upper right is the victory point.
This character has 1 point.

Unique point

The basic system that uses three rows of cards is the same as the "two-player Andor", but it's completely different.

It is this card that makes a big difference. Patriarch.

Only this card is double-sided. The front is the male patriarch and the back is the female patriarch.

There is one patriarch in every row, but each time this card comes, the caravan will have more characters.

When used, the male patriarch turns over to the back female patriarch and moves to the end of the caravan.

When the female patriarch is used, turn over to the male patriarch …
In this way, they take turns increasing their peers.

The male patriarch draws two cards from the deck and forcibly adds the one you like to the card line. A card that is not selected is discarded.

The female patriarch forcibly adds one of the cards in the discard pile to the card line.

"You look hard, come with me." "Are you interested in caravans?"

Since this patriarch couple is a caring couple who can't help but invite people, more and more people will be recruited to the card line that has begun to turn around nicely.

As the number of people increases, the arrival of excellent human resources cards with strong effects will be delayed.

Unstoppable new member joining loop

Due to the effect of this patriarch couple, it is a completely different playing from the "two-person Andor" that calculates the future situation.

There is a certain amount of choice, but it is not a game where you make a detailed plan from the beginning and execute it because the number of unexpected friends will increase forcibly.

Rather, what is needed is "ad lib".
How do you create synergies with the three caravans, including randomly added characters?
It is unique that you have to modify your plans flexibly and aim for your goals while your situation is constantly changing.

Stop this line … let it flow … and then the patriarch will bring in new friends …

By the way, some characters remove the card and shorten the caravan.

Chamberlain

He fires unwanted companions.

However, he is an advanced character and cannot be made friends with the actions of a normal patriarch.
Since there are only two cards in the deck of advanced characters, it is difficult to obtain him intentionally.

If you get it early, you are lucky.

With him, it turns into a different game of "how to make an efficient and beautiful caravan". It is also interesting.

Even the patriarch can be fired, so you can create a complete caravan.

Among the general characters, there are some of his backward compatible characters who can remove the card.

He can remove the character only in the caravan where he is.

She can remove one of the only patriarchs.

With these cards, it is possible to shorten the caravan to some extent.

However, our way of enjoying this game is flexible ad lib.

Also, I am concerned about the handling of such cards.

Employee

If you use this card, it will leave the caravan, despite the sloppy effect. But just having this card gives you 3 victory points. (If you use the action in red, the card will leave the caravan)

Should I keep him in the caravan?
Or is it better to let him go early?

If I keep him, I have to give up my turn to send him back when he comes to the front.
(Characters other than the patriarch can move behind the line with a pass without any action)
It's a waste of one turn.

At first, I removed it immediately, but after I realized that the three points in this game were unexpectedly large, I have made to think about it.

We get into fights when we play games that are too non-random, so games with a luck factor like Kashgar have a high repeat rate.