Those who like a thinky, puzzling game of shifting parameters and tactical reactions will get a lot out of Five Tribes. It’s not an awfully tricky set of rules, but because of the way the game works it can be tricky working out what to do – your most rewarding move, for instance, may leave too many options open to the next player, so the game is about balancing what’s best for you whilst minimising options for everyone else. But! You also get to use the special action on the tile itself, which again can be about improving your powers within the game and/or picking up points towards a win. ![]() When you reach your destination (- the tile you drop your final tribe member on) you collect ALL the pieces of the colour you are ‘dropping off’ and use them to effect the special ability of the tribe in question – it might be collecting money, or resources, or pieces that score at the end of the game, or assassins, which can be used to either claim more tiles or go after an opponent’s pieces. On your turn you take all the pieces off a tile of your choice and, moving around the board orthogonally, drop them off one by one. ![]() ![]() The board is made up of tiles which are dealt randomly at the start of each game, and each tile is randomly populated by tribespeople of five different colours. In Five Tribes each player is trying unite the aforementioned tribes in the mythical land of Naqala.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |