Mayfair MFG3509 Isle of Skye From Chieftain to King Board Game

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They say that the design is beautiful, the material used makes a good impression, and the game is imaginative and different every time. In the tile-laying game Isle of Skye: From Chieftain to King, 2-5 players are chieftains of famous clans and want to build their little kingdoms to score as many points as possible — but in each game only four of the sixteen scoring cards will be scored. The Kennerspiel can be loosely translated as ‘expert game of the year’, and goes to the more interesting, more expressive games that are beyond the instantly tractable titles that are the focus of the Spiel des Jahres proper. It’s a fantastic addition, which is great for Big Box owners, bad for early adopters, but also bad for Druids. some tiles are worth more than others and what's important varies game to game - indeed it changes throughout the game.

Many people will pick up the Spiel des Jahres winners as a matter of course – they’re generally not looking for experimental design or striking innovation.These award 1 victory point each for broch, cattle, farm, lighthouse, each pair of sheep, each pair of ships, and each pair of whiskey barrels. It also doesn't add any more mechanics, keeping the game on the same level of complexity as the base game.

You get five gold per turn for your castle, but you also get one for every whisky distillery connected to your castle by a road, because of course you do. It adds new and interesting decisions, and a depth to the tile-laying that in many ways renders Carcassonne all but obsolete. The monetary compensation rather ensures that the lagging players will be able to purchase a tile and possibly protect the ones they’ve drawn, making up for their stagnation in prior rounds. I have to admit, during that long period of absence, I started to miss this Alexander Pfister’s and Andreas Pelikan’s creation.

Once all players have placed their tiles, players score points based on the scoring conditions for the round, some combination of the four windows placed at the start of the game.