Board game of the day: Glen More by Ravensburger.
Board game of the day: Glen More by Ravensburger.
You play Scottish clans extending their lands with fields, quarries, castles, lakes, and of course whiskey distilleries. Your clan gets victory points for having more chieftains, special places, money, and whiskey than the other players.
New land/production/special tiles are selected from a common sequence of increasing effect, but you can only place them around your clansmen and possibly only along your road or your river. You can skip ahead to better tiles at the price of giving the other players potentially more turns and tiles. When you place a tile, it and all tiles around it are activated, providing resources, production, movement of clansmen, and various special effects.
With this great little game, Ravensburger shows they can do "real" Eurogames and not just children's/family games. The tile selection system balances tiles nicely, the layout restrictions require forethought, and there are multiple possible strategies but none that are easy. All in all an enjoyable game with potential for interesting expansions.
You play Scottish clans extending their lands with fields, quarries, castles, lakes, and of course whiskey distilleries. Your clan gets victory points for having more chieftains, special places, money, and whiskey than the other players.
New land/production/special tiles are selected from a common sequence of increasing effect, but you can only place them around your clansmen and possibly only along your road or your river. You can skip ahead to better tiles at the price of giving the other players potentially more turns and tiles. When you place a tile, it and all tiles around it are activated, providing resources, production, movement of clansmen, and various special effects.
With this great little game, Ravensburger shows they can do "real" Eurogames and not just children's/family games. The tile selection system balances tiles nicely, the layout restrictions require forethought, and there are multiple possible strategies but none that are easy. All in all an enjoyable game with potential for interesting expansions.
That's ironic. Unless it's available in Scottish, in which case it's fair dinkums.
ReplyDeleteVery interesting -- I see a couple of English copies on Amazon and eBay now. Looks like there's a http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rio_Grande_Games logo on the box as well, "The company primarily imports and localizes foreign language German-style board games." For $80 though, and the eBay listing says "out of print."
ReplyDeleteYeah, it's not with $80. It's not that good.
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