Karma Games KAR38205 Clans of Caledonia, multi-colour

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While I said the production values are great, it is surprising to open the game for the first time and see the size of the pieces.

Finally the goods tokens are all great, well sculpted wooden pieces in unique shapes and colours to make them easily recognisable for what they represent (Figure 7). The clan tiles have interesting, unique artwork but the images are a little small and I wish they had been bigger for the art to really shine. For instance, if I place any kind of unit next to my opponent’s Bakery, I will be entitled to purchase bread from the Market board at a discount since that’s what the Bakery produces.

Having more options for contracts can be good, but the ability doesn’t provide you with any additional capacity to fill contracts so this will still be a bottleneck. I look to how to get around using them like meat contracts, so then contracts that have wool and cheese seem to offer a bit more wiggle room to fulfil (as you make these at round end just before the next round meat sacrifice). The same can be said with the merchants and the market, this could have much more of an effect with the gameplay. placing units on the board), and it’s here that serious number-crunching may be required to optimise your turn and get the best you can out of your limited funds.

The market is a great gameplay element, far better integrated and more interactive than Terra Mystica’s cults.Scotland, you see, is about to have quite the economic revolution driven, as far as I can tell, by whiskey, cheese, and toast. I don’t see much advantage to having extra merchants without additional production or money producing capacity. Each element of the game – from the designer to the artwork to the mechanics – has come together in the perfect synergistic union. Each completed tile will bring in a certain number of import goods: cotton, tobacco and sugar cane, and for each pictured on the tile, you move the corresponding marker around a track. Position yourself in these to areas and with an engine to support, you should be on to a good chance of winning.