Essen Friday:
Slightly calmer day than yesterday, at least until lunchtime when the madness returned.
Games played:
Rebirth – the new Reiner Knizia game in the same vein as Babylon or Samurai, firstly an enormous thumbs up for the production of this game – the most beautiful components for tiles, castles and citadels and a gorgeous double sided board showing Acptland and Ireland. We played the Scotland side which is more of a family game – I was told the Irish side is more for gamers, with slightly different rules. Rebirth is a tight game, in which every turn you draw one of your tiles and then figure out where to place it on the board. You get to see your tile for your turn starts so you were spent all of the game completely engaged as you are either watching what your opponents are doing, I’m trying to figure out where to play your next tile. The tiles themselves so one of three things either an energy a crop, or a number of houses. The energy and crop tiles are used to make chains around the board, the object being not only to score one point for every item in your chain; but also to use your tiles to surround castles at the end of the game the castle themselves are gonna score 5 points Each so trying to control as many of them as possible is important. A neat and simple way of tiebreaking is given to you on a little player eight card. The house tiles are what you place inside your castle spaces, these are actually settlements which are 12 or three in size as soon as the settlement has been completed with tiles it scores, and there is a majority game here each as the person who placed the tile/s with the most houses on it will win and score the majority points rather than the second of third points. If you can control an entire settlement by yourself, you gain all the points, and this can be pretty significant.
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