Board Game Arena

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!

Looking forward to trying this one out! Thanks for the new game.

Yes, I'm 3/4 of the way through the rulebook and my head hurts. But I'm looking forward to sticking it out and trying a game.

It look excited, thanks!!
May i ask that when could we play them in Chinese, or any China rule books, you know, i am not very good on Eingalish.

This is a very nice game, stick to it after you read the rulebook and have 2 or 3 plays with someone face 2 face or through skype/hangout you pretty much know the basics.

nice strategy game, at last far from a family card game, wish it would play more than 2, feels like chess

Very nice strategy game. It takes some time to learn the rules, but definetly it pays off.

sorry but so far i dont like this game, reason is very simple, u need to study it first( yes study) then u are ready to play( i know rules very well) and then u can maybe experience some kind of fun but it seems mathematical and i feel like i am playing game mechanics not the game, maybe someone could help me to change my mind but at the moment i cant imagine this scenario is going to happen

Yes, the rules are very extensive, and the first game could be really difficult to play. I know it is a turn off for many gamers. However, after 2-3 plays the game is playing very smoothly, and game mechanics feel natural.

I don't think the game is very mathematical, on contrast, it is very strategical.

Anyone available for a live game, tomorrow 18th at from approx. 11 am on (I'm at UTC+1)
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