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Western Town

FEND OFF INDIANS, comply with Lincoln

 

1864, in the Dakota Territories; players are Marshals in a towns and have to cope with Indians and the interests of President Lincoln. You start with your map of the town and a set of 25 building cards and 17 building tiles. At the start you prepare your town, reveal your card "Western Ton" and take building and resources. Each of the five rounds comprises five phases. Phase 1 is the preparation phase, introducing new buildings in round 2 and 3 and revealing of a Lincoln card in each round. In Phase 2 you play two cards for building inmates in a specific procedure and use the SPIELEN effect on the card. In Phase 3 you play a 3rd card for SPIELEN or use a card in hand or still on the table to resolve the effect BENUTZEN, but only if there is a card with the same name in a neighboring town. In Phase 4 all players take the premium for all cards still on the table and then discard surplus resources. In Phase 5 Lincoln comes to visit and if you accrue most points from completed demands on the Lincoln card revealed in Phase 1 you get the card; it gives you an additional household. New buildings give you additional options for actions.

You need to keep an eye not only on the other Marshals but also on the political developments in Washington, indicated by the Lincoln card, and defend the town against Indians and also develop your town! After five rounds you score for houses, buildings in town and symbols of Lincoln cards in the town.

Western Town is a nice "I-would-like-to-to-more-than-that" game with little chance and lots of decisions, a game of optimizing construction and effects of buildings.

 

Players: 2-4

Age: 14+

Time: 90+

Designer: Olivier Warnier

Artist: Anthony Wolff

Price: ca. 40 Euro

Publisher: Whyme 2012

Web: www.whyme.fr

Genre: Development, resources management

Users: With friends

Version: multi

Rules: de en fr

In-game text: no

 

Comments:

Nice, if somewhat inexact background story

Very nice components

Very little chance

Many decision possibilities

 

Compares to:

All games on constructing and using buildings

 

Other editions:

Currently none

 

Chance (pink): 2

Tactic (turquoise): 2

Strategy (blue): 1

Creativity (dark blue): 0

Knowledge (yellow): 0

Memory (orange): 0

Communication (red): 0

Interaction (brown): 2

Dexterity (green): 0

Action (dark green): 0