- rank: 210
- rating: 7.57
Print Status
- in print
Why It's On The List
- Reiner Knizia turns his adept design talent to deck-building... and makes a racing game that manages to stay tense throughout, offer a variety of interesting (and clever) tactical decisions, and be enjoyable with both gamers and non-gamers.
Tips & Tricks:
- Add the caves into the game after your first play - they offer some difficult choices as well as helping deal with overcrowding at choke points.
- Players often undervalue the usefulness of gold... both for movement through villages and for purchasing higher valued cards that make a big difference in the end game.
- Learn to look at the board to figure out the "rhythm" of when you'll need various kinds of cards - sections of the board may have a preponderance of one type of terrain and/or high numbered terrain (3s & 4s) that force you to take a different route. Planning ahead will make a difference!
Extras
- The Heroes & Hexes expansion is excellent... highly recommended.
- I'm looking forward to playing the stand-alone game in the series, The Golden Temples. (It will evidently also combine the original game.)
- There is an excellent set of maps available on BGG.
- This is the second of four Reiner Knizia games on my top 50 list.
- Weirdly enough, I graduated from El Dorado High School.
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