FIVE TRIBES: A worker-placement game that started a trend...
Posted: 27 January 2025, 14:01
And here is another internationally-acclaimed game to hit your virtual shelves!
Crossing into the Land of 1001 Nights, your caravan arrives at the fabled Sultanate of Naqala. The old sultan just died and control of Naqala is up for grabs! The oracles foretold of strangers who would maneuver the Five Tribes to gain influence over the legendary city-state. Will you fulfill the prophecy? Invoke the old Djinns and move the Tribes into position at the right time, and the Sultanate may become yours!
Designed by Bruno Cathala, Five Tribes builds on a long tradition of German-style games that feature wooden meeples. Here, in a unique twist on the now-standard "worker placement" genre, the game begins with the meeples already in place- and players must cleverly maneuver them over the villages, markets, oases, and sacred places tiles that make up Naqala. How, when, and where you dis-place these Five Tribes of Assassins, Elders, Builders, Merchants, and Viziers determine your victory or failure.
As befitting a Days of Wonder game, the rules are straightforward and easy to learn. But devising a winning strategy will take a more calculated approach than our standard fare. You need to carefully consider what moves can score you well and put your opponents at a disadvantage. You need to weigh many different pathways to victory, including the summoning of powerful Djinns that may help your cause as you attempt to control this legendary Sultanate.
The game itself plays beautifully from your browser, and you can teach it to yourself in a bliss by going to the tutorial. Follow the game link below:
https://boardgamearena.com/gamepanel?game=fivetribes
It plays very well and looks very good thanks to the work done by Fletcheese for you all on Board Game Arena.
Let's of course thank the game designer, Bruno Cathala & the publisher's team from Days of Wonders who gave the greenlight to have the game on our platform.
And that's it for your "not-so-usual Monday."
That's quite a big title there, so you can start to wonder what you will get on this Wednesday Release Time...
Let's guess!
Until then, take care and play fair!
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