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Dice Settlers

Explore new lands with dice

You control settlers and use a mix of dice management and action selection while adhering to the 4x characteristic traits of exploring territory, controlling region, player conflicts and technology development.

You place tiles for the new lands and place tents and houses on them for points and bonuses; tent majorities control tiles, houses provide permanent control. Dice represent settlers for various main action according to the dice results. Techologies are resources for points and special abilities.

A round of the game has three phases: 1. All players draw dice from their bag according to their current quota; if necessary, they put spent dice from the spent dice area back into the bag. Then all roll their dice and can re-roll or draw additional dice or alter a dice result. 2.In turn, players use dice for one and then in turn for a second main action - recruit, explore, settle, raid, harvest or trade. In addition to the icons from dice you can use icons from technologies and from controlled terrain tiles. Besides the two main action you can do free actions any time - factory or govern. 3. Clean up - you move spent dice to the area for spent dice, turn all player markers back to their active side r and take any player markers off tiles.

The game ends when someone has built five houses or all SP markers and terrain tiles have been used or if there are only two or fewer dice colors in stock.

Dice settlers is a well-made representative of its genre, combines all necessary and standard elements and plays quickly, unless you have a ponderer at the table. The solo version merits a special recommendation!

Players: 2-4

Age: 14+

Time: 60+

Designer: Dávid Turczi

Artist: Mihajlo Dimitrievski, Agnieszka Kopera

Price: ca. 50 Euro

Publisher: NSKN Games 2018

Web: www.boardanddice.com

Genre: 4x, dice driven actions

Users: For experts

Special: 1 player

Version: en

Rules: de en es jp nl

In-game text: yes

Comments:

Standard elements

Very good solo version

NSKN is now Board & Dice

Compares to:

Catan for topic, 4X games with dice-driven actions

Other editions:

Jumping Turtle (nl), Last Level (es), Schwerkraft-Verlag (de), Ten Days Games (jp)

Chance (pink): 3

Tactic (turquoise): 2

Strategy (blue): 2

Creativity (dark blue): 0

Knowledge (yellow): 0

Memory (orange): 0

Communication (red): 0

Interaction (brown): 1

Dexterity (green): 0

Action (dark green): 0