We are proud and happy to introduce today Polis: Fight for the Hegemony, a game by Fran Diaz published by Asylum Games.Polis is a game about the Peloponnesian war between Athens and Sparta. There is too few good strategy board games designed to be played by 2 "core gamers", so this is really a pleasure to play this one!
The game lasts 4 turns. During each turn, both players are taking 2 actions alternately until they decide to pass. The winner is the player with the most population cubes + prestige points at the end of the game. You grow up your population by conquering cities and feeding them with wheat, and you win prestige points by winning cities, winning battles and building projects.
There are 12 different possible actions, including building & moving your military units (hoplites and galleys), making them collect resources produced in the territories, trade resources or start to build a project.
Important: each military action costs you 1 prestige point. Thus, you have to spend them wisely in order to make your position stronger while keeping your score high.
Polis is a quite complex game, but it offers a great freedom of actions in a very realistic historical context. The situations are various and fascinating, with a lot of interaction between players. We strongly recommand it to every core gamer.
The adaptation of Polis for Board Game Arena has been realized by Sunil Patel using BGA Studio. Sunil did an incredible job considering this is his first adapation for BGA: a big thank you for this!
Board Game Arena would also like to send a big Thank You to Asylum Games for this wonderful game. We wish you all the success you deserve, and hope this game will become a classic!
