Akropolis - Strategy Tile Laying Board Game - Ages 8 +

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But Akropolis also has a second balancing act in the sense that you need to prioritize those Plaza hexes. It reminds me a lot of games like Sobek: 2 Players or Kingdomino, where all tiles aren’t created equal. You need both types of hexes in your city for it to thrive. There are decisions to be made as to what tile you want. Do you have enough stone to offer you the flexibility and choice of taking a tile other than the first one available? Can you see that your opponent has amassed a large number of one district so you can take the plaza away from them? From the simple ruleset is birthed choices and decisions that you need to make. Admittedly, it is not a high, long term strategy game with multiple levers to pull, but there is enough in the game that it makes for a very pleasing 30 minute tile drafting game. The Akropolis board game features a simple tile drafting/market mechanic that experienced gamers will understand. It’s reminiscent of a similar market dynamic that you’d find in Century Spice Road or Small World, except that the Stone cost just goes to the bank. At the same time, it’s easy enough that new gamers shouldn’t have any trouble learning the game and hitting the ground running. The box says it is for players eight years and over. While I think a seven or eight year old will grasp how to play, I think they probably need to be closer to ten to be competitive. As always it depends on the child, but I will be waiting to play this more often with my youngest. On pose des tuiles du mieux qu’on peut, on joue avec la rivière de tuiles et les étages et c’est très cool, c’est très satisfaisant de réaliser de bons coups et de beaux combos, mais c’est froid. Le jeu aurais pu être abstrait que ça n’aurait pas changé grand chose.

I don’t know what it is about this game but it just hits the spot. The rules are very straightforward; take a tile, then place a tile. In its simplest form that is it. Sure, there are some placement rules to worry about when placing your tile, but these are fairly straightforward as well. I feel that this is a very accessible game that could be taught to almost anyone. Yet, it has enough depth to keep people engaged and interested. Et si vous voulez tout savoir sur ce jeu et avoir notre retour d'expérience complet, je vous le présente en détail dans cet article : Go through each District and fill the score in on the score pad, and the player with the most points is the winner! Advanced Scoring Variants NB: If you don’t achieve any advanced variants but they are in play, your city will score using the regular rules for that particular District.Eh bien Akropolis fait office de nouveau moyen d’initier les gens aux jds car il coche selon nous, toutes les cases : Each city tile is made up of three hexes and there are three different types of city tiles. Quarries, which as mentioned above, grant you stone when they are covered up. Plazas which act as multipliers for your districts (based on the total number of stars displayed). Districts can grant you points assuming their placement rules are observed. There are five different types of districts: Whoever has the most points when only one tile remains wins the game! Staking OurC.L.A.I.M. on Akropolis! Components Quarries serve a unique purpose because every time you cover one up you gain a wooden Stone cube. You use Stone to pay for tiles that you are drafting, and each leftover Stone at the end of the game is good for its own juicy point. Akropolis is a tile laying game from designer Jules Messaud with art by Pauline Detraz published by Gigamic.

Once you have the base game down, you can also play with some advanced rules variants. These expand the scoring rules for hexes to grant additional points if you can satisfy the secondary requirement. They make the game more complex, as it doubles the number of inputs and considerations you need to make as a player. Aesthetics Fairly straightforward, but things get a little more spicy as districts will count towards more points the higher up they are in your city. Districts on the base level times the star score by one, tiles on a second level times stars by two, third – three, and so on. When building up, tiles must cover part of at least two tiles below it. This stops people just building up and up on one tile. Temples (purple)–if your temples are on higher levels, double their point values before applying the regular Plaza and level multipliers r – so this could be a multiple multiplying effect if they are on level 2 or 3 o higher!

Final thoughts on Akropolis

The game ends when all the tiles have been drawn, leaving one lonely tile to get discarded. Scores are then tallied using the included scorepad and the winner is declared.

These tiles are the clear and obvious stars of the game, and the only major component besides the wooden Stone cubes. Those are your average painted wooden cube, which is a nice upgrade over a thin cardboard token or something like that. The first tile is free to take, all after it costs 1 stone to skip (e.g. if you want the 4th tile, spend 3 stone)

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Plazas (Grey with Coloured stamp) - The stars depicted on these can be multiplied with the districts of the same type to make them worth more points On the reverse of the city tiles it says how many players each tile is for so in a 2 player game you only need to take the tiles out of the box with a 2 on the reverse. I love tile laying games. I love easy to learn hard to master crunchiness. I love spatial puzzles. And I am very pleased to say that Akropolis achieves this trifecta of board gaming bliss. To calculate each score you take the number of multipliers for each area (number of stars) and multiply that by the districts level. For example if you had 4 stars for markets and two separated markets one of which was on the ground level and the other was on the third level you would score (4x1 & 4x3) 16 points. At the end of the game you calculate everyone’s score using the scorepad and the player with the most points wins. Stones are used for tiebreaks and also provide 1 point per stone left in your supply at the end of the game.