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Wendake New Allies
England or Frankreich
Daily life of the tribes living around the Great Lakes at the time of the Seven Years War in this area. As chief of a tribe you engage in all areas of daily life and receive points on the tracks for economy, military, ritual and mask. Central element is an action selection mechanism, with which you receive steadily improving actions within seven rounds = years. A year comprises two parts: 1. Four turns per player in turn, in which you do one action per turn according to an action tile and change the turn order; 2. New turn order - adjusting action tiles - replace masks - replace progress tiles - new year.
New Allies introduces the European nations to the game that were active in the area of the Great Lakes . Your tribe can now be an ally for France or Britain, for trade or in joint battle actions. Contrary to the historic tribes, you as a tribe must not keep up an alliance for the duration of the game. The main focus of the alliances was trading, especially trading beaver hides for guns. Guns are a new resource for Turtle tiles, but also for effects and victory points. Rifles in turn are a resource for Turtle tiles, effects and victory points, available from Turn cards or Advanced Action tiles.
Changes in mechanisms compared to the core game concern changing turn order, prepare progress tiles and beginning new year as well as combat; new effects are the alliances themselves and new turn cards for new effects.
New allies is a felicitous supplement and also increase in game depth for Wendake; the alliances are interesting, but should not dominate the use of the expansion, other actions, are of interest, too.
Players: 2-4
Age: 14+
Time: 150+
Designer: Danilo Sabia, P.S. Martensen
Artist: Alan d’Amico, Paolo Vallerga
Price: ca. 25 Euro
Publisher: Placentia Games 2018
Genre: Worker placement
Users: For experts
Version: multi
Rules: de en fr it
In-game text: no
Comments:
Intensifies Wendake’s game depth
Previous familiarizing with Wendake is recommended
Alliances should not dominate
Compares to:
Wendake, worker placement games
Other editions:
Currently none
Chance (pink): 1
Tactic (turquoise): 2
Strategy (blue): 2
Creativity (dark blue): 0
Knowledge (yellow): 0
Memory (orange): 0
Communication (red): 0
Interaction (brown): 2
Dexterity (green): 0
Action (dark green): 0